nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml

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 <title>Release 20.03 (“Markhor”, 2020.03/??)</title>

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  <title>Highlights</title>

  <para>
   In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the
   following highlights:
  </para>

  <itemizedlist>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     Support is planned until the end of October 2020, handing over to 20.09.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     Postgresql for NixOS service now defaults to v11.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     The graphical installer image starts the graphical session automatically.
     Before you'd be greeted by a tty and asked to enter <command>systemctl start display-manager</command>.
     It is now possible to disable the display-manager from running by selecting the <literal>Disable display-manager</literal>
     quirk in the boot menu.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
     <para>
       By default zfs pools will now be trimmed on a weekly basis.
       Trimming is only done on supported devices (i.e. NVME or SSDs)
       and should improve throughput and lifetime of these devices.
       It is controlled by the <varname>services.zfs.trim.enable</varname> varname.
       The zfs scrub service (<varname>services.zfs.autoScrub.enable</varname>)
       and the zfs autosnapshot service (<varname>services.zfs.autoSnapshot.enable</varname>)
       are now only enabled if zfs is set in <varname>config.boot.initrd.supportedFilesystems</varname> or
       <varname>config.boot.supportedFilesystems</varname>. These lists will automatically contain
       zfs as soon as any zfs mountpoint is configured in <varname>fileSystems</varname>.
     </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
      <command>nixos-option</command> has been rewritten in C++, speeding it up, improving correctness,
      and adding a <option>--all</option> option which prints all options and their values.
    </para>
   </listitem>
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         xml:id="sec-release-20.03-new-services">
  <title>New Services</title>

  <para>
   The following new services were added since the last release:
  </para>

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   <listitem>
    <para>
    The kubernetes kube-proxy now supports a new hostname configuration
    <literal>services.kubernetes.proxy.hostname</literal> which has to
    be set if the hostname of the node should be non default.
    </para>
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         xml:id="sec-release-20.03-incompatibilities">
  <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>

  <para>
   When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the following
   incompatible changes:
  </para>

  <itemizedlist>
   <listitem>
    <para>
      GnuPG is now built without support for a graphical passphrase entry
      by default. Please enable the <literal>gpg-agent</literal> user service
      via the NixOS option <literal>programs.gnupg.agent.enable</literal>.
      Note that upstream recommends using <literal>gpg-agent</literal> and
      will spawn a <literal>gpg-agent</literal> on the first invocation of
      GnuPG anyway.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     The <literal>dynamicHosts</literal> option has been removed from the
     <link linkend="opt-networking.networkmanager.enable">networkd</link>
     module. Allowing (multiple) regular users to override host entries
     affecting the whole system opens up a huge attack vector.
     There seem to be very rare cases where this might be useful.
     Consider setting system-wide host entries using
     <link linkend="opt-networking.hosts">networking.hosts</link>, provide
     them via the DNS server in your network, or use
     <link linkend="opt-environment.etc">environment.etc</link>
     to add a file into <literal>/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d</literal>
     reconfiguring <literal>hostsdir</literal>.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
      The <literal>99-main.network</literal> file was removed. Maching all
      network interfaces caused many breakages, see
      <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18962">#18962</link>
        and <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/71106">#71106</link>.
    </para>
    <para>
      We already don't support the global <link linkend="opt-networking.useDHCP">networking.useDHCP</link>,
      <link linkend="opt-networking.defaultGateway">networking.defaultGateway</link> and
      <link linkend="opt-networking.defaultGateway6">networking.defaultGateway6</link> options
      if <link linkend="opt-networking.useNetworkd">networking.useNetworkd</link> is enabled,
      but direct users to configure the per-device
      <link linkend="opt-networking.interfaces">networking.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;.…</link> options.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     The SLIM Display Manager has been removed, as it has been unmaintained since 2013.
     Consider migrating to a different display manager such as LightDM (current default in NixOS),
     SDDM, GDM, or using the startx module which uses Xinitrc.
     </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
      The BEAM package set has been deleted. You will only find there the different interpreters.
      You should now use the different build tools coming with the languages with sandbox mode disabled.
    </para>
   </listitem>
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         xml:id="sec-release-20.03-notable-changes">
  <title>Other Notable Changes</title>

  <itemizedlist>
   <listitem>
     <para>SD images are now compressed by default using <literal>bzip2</literal>.</para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     OpenSSH has been upgraded from 7.9 to 8.1, improving security and adding features
     but with potential incompatibilities.  Consult the
     <link xlink:href="https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.1">
     release announcement</link> for more information.
    </para>
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