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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Appendix C. Release Notes</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="overrides.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mono-blue.css" /><script src="highlight.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="highlight.load.js" type="text/javascript"></script><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Home Manager Manual" /><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Home Manager Manual" /><link rel="prev" href="tools.html" title="Appendix B. Tools" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Appendix C. Release Notes</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tools.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> </td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="appendix"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="ch-release-notes"></a>Release Notes</h1></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-21.03">C.1. Release 21.03</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-21.03-highlights">C.1.1. Highlights</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-21.03-state-version-changes">C.1.2. State Version Changes</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-20.09">C.2. Release 20.09</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-20.09-highlights">C.2.1. Highlights</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-20.09-state-version-changes">C.2.2. State Version Changes</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-20.03">C.3. Release 20.03</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-20.03-highlights">C.3.1. Highlights</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-20.03-state-version-changes">C.3.2. State Version Changes</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-19.09">C.4. Release 19.09</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-19.09-highlights">C.4.1. Highlights</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-19.09-state-version-changes">C.4.2. State Version Changes</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-19.03">C.5. Release 19.03</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-19.03-highlights">C.5.1. Highlights</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-19.03-state-version-changes">C.5.2. State Version Changes</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="section"><a href="release-notes.html#sec-release-18.09">C.6. Release 18.09</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>This section lists the release notes for stable versions of Home Manager and the current unstable version.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="sec-release-21.03"></a>C.1. Release 21.03</h2></div></div></div><p>This is the current unstable branch and the information in this
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section is therefore not final.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="sec-release-21.03-highlights"></a>C.1.1. Highlights</h3></div></div></div><p>This release has the following notable changes:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p class="simpara">
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The <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-programs.broot.verbs"><code class="option">programs.broot.verbs</code></a> option is now a list rather than an
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attribute set. To migrate, move the keys of the attrset into the list
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items' <code class="literal">invocation</code> keys. For example,
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</p><pre class="programlisting nix">programs.broot.verbs = {
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"p" = { execution = ":parent"; };
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};</pre><p class="simpara">becomes</p><pre class="programlisting nix">programs.broot.verbs = [
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{
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invocation = "p";
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execution = ":parent";
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}
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];</pre></li></ul></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="sec-release-21.03-state-version-changes"></a>C.1.2. State Version Changes</h3></div></div></div><p>The state version in this release includes the changes below. These
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changes are only active if the <code class="literal">home.stateVersion</code> option is set to
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"21.03" or later.</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
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Nothing has happened.
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</li></ul></div></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="sec-release-20.09"></a>C.2. Release 20.09</h2></div></div></div><p>The 20.09 release branch became the stable branch in late September, 2020.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="sec-release-20.09-highlights"></a>C.2.1. Highlights</h3></div></div></div><p>This release has the following notable changes:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
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Nothing has happened.
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</li></ul></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="sec-release-20.09-state-version-changes"></a>C.2.2. State Version Changes</h3></div></div></div><p>The state version in this release includes the changes below. These
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changes are only active if the <code class="literal">home.stateVersion</code> option is set to
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"20.09" or later.</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p class="simpara">
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The options <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-home.homeDirectory"><code class="option">home.homeDirectory</code></a> and <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-home.username"><code class="option">home.username</code></a> no
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longer have default values and must therefore be provided in your
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configuration. Previously their values would default to the content of
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the environment variables <code class="literal">HOME</code> and <code class="literal">USER</code>, respectively.
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</p><p class="simpara">Further, the options <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-xdg.cacheHome"><code class="option">xdg.cacheHome</code></a>, <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-xdg.configHome"><code class="option">xdg.configHome</code></a>,
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and <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-xdg.dataHome"><code class="option">xdg.dataHome</code></a> will no longer be affected by the
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<code class="literal">XDG_CACHE_HOME</code>, <code class="literal">XDG_CONFIG_HOME</code>, and <code class="literal">XDG_DATA_HOME</code> environment
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variables. They now unconditionally default to</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: circle; "><li class="listitem">
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<code class="literal">"${config.home.homeDirectory}/.cache"</code>,
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</li><li class="listitem">
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<code class="literal">"${config.home.homeDirectory}/.config"</code>, and
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</li><li class="listitem">
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<code class="literal">"${config.home.homeDirectory}/.local/share"</code>.
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</li></ul></div><p class="simpara">If you choose to switch to state version 20.09 then you must set these
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options if you use non-default XDG base directory paths.</p><p class="simpara">The initial configuration generated by</p><pre class="programlisting console">$ nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install</pre><p class="simpara">will automatically include these options, when necessary.</p></li><li class="listitem">
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Git’s <code class="literal">smtpEncryption</code> option is now set to <code class="literal">tls</code> only if both <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-accounts.email.accounts._name_.smtp.tls.enable"><code class="option">accounts.email.accounts.<name>.smtp.tls.enable</code></a> and <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-accounts.email.accounts._name_.smtp.tls.useStartTls"><code class="option">accounts.email.accounts.<name>.smtp.tls.useStartTls</code></a> are <code class="literal">true</code>. If only <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-accounts.email.accounts._name_.smtp.tls.enable"><code class="option">accounts.email.accounts.<name>.smtp.tls.enable</code></a> is <code class="literal">true</code>, <code class="literal">ssl</code> is used instead.
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</li><li class="listitem"><p class="simpara">
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The <code class="literal">nixpkgs</code> module no longer references <code class="literal"><nixpkgs></code>. Before it would do so when building the <code class="literal">pkgs</code> module argument. Starting with state version 20.09, the <code class="literal">pkgs</code> argument is instead built from the same Nixpkgs that was used to initialize the Home Manager modules. This is useful, for example, when using Home Manager within a Nix Flake. If you want to keep using <code class="literal"><nixpkgs></code> with state version ≥ 20.09 then add
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</p><pre class="programlisting nix">_module.args.pkgsPath = <nixpkgs>;</pre><p class="simpara">to your Home Manager configuration.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p class="simpara">
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The options <code class="literal">wayland.windowManager.sway.config.bars</code> and <code class="literal">opt-xsession.windowManager.i3.config.bars</code> have been changed so that most of the suboptions are now nullable and default to <code class="literal">null</code>. The default for these two options has been changed to manually set the old defaults for each suboption. The overall effect is that if the <code class="literal">bars</code> options is not set, then the default remains the same. On the other hand, something like:
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</p><pre class="programlisting nix">bars = [ {
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command = "waybar";
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} ];</pre><p class="simpara">will now create the config:</p><pre class="literallayout">bar {
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swaybar_command waybar
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}</pre><p class="simpara">instead of</p><pre class="literallayout">bar {
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font pango:monospace 8
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mode dock
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hidden_state hide
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position bottom
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status_command /nix/store/h7s6i9q1z5fxrlyyw5ls8vqxhf5bcs5a-i3status-2.13/bin/i3status
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swaybar_command waybar
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workspace_buttons yes
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strip_workspace_numbers no
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tray_output primary
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colors {
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background #000000
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statusline #ffffff
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separator #666666
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focused_workspace #4c7899 #285577 #ffffff
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active_workspace #333333 #5f676a #ffffff
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inactive_workspace #333333 #222222 #888888
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urgent_workspace #2f343a #900000 #ffffff
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binding_mode #2f343a #900000 #ffffff
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}
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}</pre></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="sec-release-20.03"></a>C.3. Release 20.03</h2></div></div></div><p>The 20.03 release branch became the stable branch in April, 2020.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="sec-release-20.03-highlights"></a>C.3.1. Highlights</h3></div></div></div><p>This release has the following notable changes:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p class="simpara">
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Assigning a list to the <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-home.file"><code class="option">home.file</code></a>, <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-xdg.configFile"><code class="option">xdg.configFile</code></a>,
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and <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-xdg.dataFile"><code class="option">xdg.dataFile</code></a> options is now deprecated and will produce a
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warning message if used. Specifically, if your configuration currently
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contains something like
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</p><pre class="programlisting nix">home.file = [
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{
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target = ".config/foo.txt";
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text = "bar";
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}
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]</pre><p class="simpara">then it should be updated to instead use the equivalent attribute set form</p><pre class="programlisting nix">home.file = {
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".config/foo.txt".text = "bar";
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}</pre><p class="simpara">Support for the list form will be removed in Home Manager version
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20.09.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p class="simpara">
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The <code class="literal">lib</code> function attribute given to modules is now enriched with
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an attribute <code class="literal">hm</code> containing extra library functions specific for Home
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Manager. More specifically, <code class="literal">lib.hm</code> is now the same as <code class="literal">config.lib</code>
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and should be the preferred choice since it is more robust.
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</p><p class="simpara">Therefore, if your configuration makes use of, for example,
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<code class="literal">config.lib.dag</code> to create activation script blocks, it is recommended
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to change to <code class="literal">lib.hm.dag</code>.</p><p class="simpara">Note, in the unlikely case that you are</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: circle; "><li class="listitem">
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using Home Manager’s NixOS or nix-darwin module,
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</li><li class="listitem">
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have made your own Home Manager module containing an top-level
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option named <code class="literal">config</code> or <code class="literal">options</code>, and
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</li><li class="listitem">
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assign to this option in your system configuration inside a plain
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attribute set, i.e., without a function argument,
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</li></ul></div><p class="simpara">then you must update your configuration to perform the option
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assignment inside a <code class="literal">config</code> attribute. For example, instead of</p><pre class="programlisting nix">home-manager.users.jane = { config = "foo"; };</pre><p class="simpara">use</p><pre class="programlisting nix">home-manager.users.jane = { config.config = "foo"; };</pre></li><li class="listitem">
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The <code class="literal">services.compton</code> module has been deprecated and instead the
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new module <code class="literal">services.picom</code> should be used. This is because Nixpkgs no
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longer packages compton, and instead packages the (mostly) compatible
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fork called picom.
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</li><li class="listitem"><p class="simpara">
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The list form of the <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-programs.ssh.matchBlocks"><code class="option">programs.ssh.matchBlocks</code></a> option has
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been deprecated and configurations requiring match blocks in a defined
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order should switch to using DAG entries instead. For example, a
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configuration
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</p><pre class="programlisting nix">programs.ssh.matchBlocks = [
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{
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host = "alpha.foo.com";
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user = "jd";
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}
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{
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host = "*.foo.com";
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user = "john.doe";
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}
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];</pre><p class="simpara">can be expressed along the lines of</p><pre class="programlisting nix">programs.ssh.matchBlocks = {
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"*.example.com" = {
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user = "john.doe";
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}
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"alpha.example.com" = lib.hm.dag.entryBefore ["*.example.com"] {
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user = "jd";
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}
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};</pre><p class="simpara">Support for the list form will be removed in Home Manager version
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20.09.</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="sec-release-20.03-state-version-changes"></a>C.3.2. State Version Changes</h3></div></div></div><p>The state version in this release includes the changes below. These
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changes are only active if the <code class="literal">home.stateVersion</code> option is set to
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"20.03" or later.</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
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The <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-programs.zsh.history.path"><code class="option">programs.zsh.history.path</code></a> option is no longer prepended
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by <code class="literal">$HOME</code>, which allows specifying absolute paths, for example,
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using the xdg module. Also, the default value is fixed to
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<code class="literal">$HOME/.zsh_history</code> and <code class="literal">dotDir</code> path is not prepended to it
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anymore.
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</li><li class="listitem">
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The newsboat module will now default in displaying <code class="literal">queries</code> before <code class="literal">urls</code> in
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its main window. This makes sense in the case when one has a lot of URLs and
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few queries.
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</li></ul></div></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="sec-release-19.09"></a>C.4. Release 19.09</h2></div></div></div><p>The 19.09 release branch became the stable branch in October, 2019.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="sec-release-19.09-highlights"></a>C.4.1. Highlights</h3></div></div></div><p>This release has the following notable changes:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
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The <code class="literal">programs.firefox.enableGoogleTalk</code> and
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<code class="literal">programs.firefox.enableIcedTea</code> options are now deprecated
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and will only work if Firefox ESR 52.x is used.
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</li><li class="listitem">
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The <code class="literal">home-manager</code> tool now provides an <code class="literal">uninstall</code> sub-command that
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can be used to uninstall Home Manager, if used in the standalone
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mode. That is, not as a NixOS module.
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</li></ul></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="sec-release-19.09-state-version-changes"></a>C.4.2. State Version Changes</h3></div></div></div><p>The state version in this release includes the changes below. These
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changes are only active if the <code class="literal">home.stateVersion</code> option is set to
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"19.09" or later.</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
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The <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-programs.firefox.package"><code class="option">programs.firefox.package</code></a> option now expects a wrapped
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Firefox package and defaults to <code class="literal">pkgs.firefox</code>.
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</li><li class="listitem">
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The options <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-home.keyboard.layout"><code class="option">home.keyboard.layout</code></a> and
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<a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-home.keyboard.variant"><code class="option">home.keyboard.variant</code></a> now default to <code class="literal">null</code>, which indicates
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that the system value should be used.
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</li></ul></div></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="sec-release-19.03"></a>C.5. Release 19.03</h2></div></div></div><p>The 19.03 release branch became the stable branch in April, 2019.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="sec-release-19.03-highlights"></a>C.5.1. Highlights</h3></div></div></div><p>This release has the following notable changes:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p class="simpara">
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The <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-home.file._name_.source"><code class="option">home.file.<name>.source</code></a> option now allows source files to be
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hidden, that is, having a name starting with the <code class="literal">.</code> character. It
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also allows the source file name to contain characters not typically
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allowed for Nix store paths. For example, your configuration can now
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contain things such as
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</p><pre class="programlisting nix">home.file."my file".source = ./. + "/file with spaces!";</pre></li><li class="listitem"><p class="simpara">
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The type used for the systemd unit options under
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<a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-systemd.user.services"><code class="option">systemd.user.services</code></a>, <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-systemd.user.sockets"><code class="option">systemd.user.sockets</code></a>, etc. has
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been changed to offer more robust merging of configurations. If you
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don’t override values within systemd units then you are not affected
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by this change. Unfortunately, if you do override unit values you may
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encounter errors.
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</p><p class="simpara">In particular, if you get an error saying that a “unique option” is
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“defined multiple times” then you need to use the
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<a class="link" href="https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#sec-option-definitions-setting-priorities" target="_top"><code class="literal">mkForce</code></a>
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function. For example,</p><pre class="programlisting nix">systemd.user.services.foo.Service.ExecStart = "/foo/bar";</pre><p class="simpara">becomes</p><pre class="programlisting nix">systemd.user.services.foo.Service.ExecStart = lib.mkForce "/foo/bar";</pre><p class="simpara">We had to make this change because the old merging was causing too
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many confusing situations for people.</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="sec-release-19.03-state-version-changes"></a>C.5.2. State Version Changes</h3></div></div></div><p>The state version in this release includes the changes below. These
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changes are only active if the <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-home.stateVersion"><code class="option">home.stateVersion</code></a> option is set
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to “19.03” or later.</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
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There is now an option <a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-programs.beets.enable"><code class="option">programs.beets.enable</code></a> that defaults
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to <code class="literal">false</code>. Before the module would be active if the
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<a class="xref" href="options.html#opt-programs.beets.settings"><code class="option">programs.beets.settings</code></a> option was non-empty.
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</li></ul></div></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="sec-release-18.09"></a>C.6. Release 18.09</h2></div></div></div><p>The 18.09 release branch became the stable branch in September, 2018.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tools.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> </td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Appendix B. Tools </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr></table></div></body></html> |