nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml

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<title>Release 17.03 (“XXX”, 2017/03/??)</title>

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

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

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

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    <para>
      <literal>gnome</literal> alias has been removed along with
      <literal>gtk</literal>, <literal>gtkmm</literal> and several others.
      Now you need to use versioned attributes, like <literal>gnome3</literal>.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      The attribute name of the Radicale daemon has been changed from
      <literal>pythonPackages.radicale</literal> to
      <literal>radicale</literal>.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      The Yama LSM is now enabled by default in the kernel,
      which prevents ptracing non-child processes.
      This means you will not be able to attach gdb to an existing process,
      but will need to start that process from gdb (so it is a child).
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      The <literal>stripHash</literal> bash function in <literal>stdenv</literal>
      changed according to its documentation; it now outputs the stripped name to
      <literal>stdout</literal> instead of putting it in the variable
      <literal>strippedName</literal>.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>PHP now scans for extra configuration .ini files in /etc/php.d
    instead of /etc. This prevents accidentally loading non-PHP .ini files
    that may be in /etc.
    </para>
  </listitem>
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<para>Other notable improvements:</para>

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  <listitem>
    <para>Module type system have a new extensible option types feature that
      allow to extend certain types, such as enum, through multiple option
      declarations of the same option across multiple modules.
    </para>
  </listitem>
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