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| 2016-04-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: NixOS 16.03 |
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Domen Kozar has announced the launch of NixOS 16.03. NixOS is built with the Nix package manager which isolates packages and provides atomic package installations, removals and upgrades. NixOS 16.03 is a fairly minor upgrade for the project, featuring updates to the kernel and systemd along with improvements to the Nix package manager. "NixOS community is proud to announce the third NixOS stable release 'Emu' 16.03. This is a low profile release, but it contains many small improvements. We had 10,567 commits from 448 contributors in this release spanning over six months. The release brings many improvements including Nix 1.12.2, systemd 229, kernel 4.4 and many packages updates." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement and release notes. Download: nixos-graphical-16.03.468.2d840da-x86_64-linux.iso (1,004MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In NixOS, the entire operating system, including the kernel, applications, system packages and configuration files, are built by the Nix package manager. Nix stores all packages in isolation from each other; as a result there are no /bin, /sbin, /lib or /usr directories and all packages are kept in /nix/store instead. Other innovative features of NixOS include reliable upgrades, rollbacks, reproducible system configurations, source-based model with binaries, and multi-user package management. Although NixOS started as a research project, it is now a functional and usable operating system that includes hardware detection, KDE as the default desktop, and systemd for managing system services.
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| 2026-05-30 |
Distribution Release: NixOS 26.05 |
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The NixOS project has published a new snapshot of its distribution: NixOS 26.05. The new version updates initrd to be based on systemd, plans for the retirement of x86_64-darwin, and updates GNOME to version 50. "We are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 26.05 'Yarara. This release will receive bug fixes and security updates for seven months (up until 2026-12-31). The old release 25.11 'Xantusia' is now officially deprecated and will reach its end-of-life and stop receiving security updates after 2026-06-30. ... systemd stage 1 - stage 1 (a.k.a. initrd) is now based on systemd by default and the old scripted implementation is deprecated and scheduled for removal in 26.11. Deprecation of x86_64-darwin - this will be the last release of Nixpkgs to support x86_64-darwin. Platform support will be maintained and binaries built until Nixpkgs 26.05 goes out of support at the end of 2026. For 26.11, due to Apple's deprecation of the platform and limited build infrastructure and developer time, we will no longer build packages for x86_64-darwin or support building them from source. GNOME 50 - GNOME has been updated to version 50 'Tokyo', introducing accessibility enhancements, display handling improvements and more. Refer to the release notes for more details." The release announcement has additional information. Download (pkglist): latest-nixos-graphical-x86_64-linux.iso (3,568MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-minimal-x86_64-linux.iso (1,595MB, SHA256). |
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| 2025-11-30 |
Distribution Release: NixOS 25.11 |
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The NixOS project has published a new release, NixOS 25.11, which carries the codename Xantusia. The new release offers seven months of support and many updates: "Hey everyone, we are jopejoe1 and Leona Maroni, the release managers of the newest release of NixOS. We are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 25.11 Xantusia. NixOS is a Linux distribution. Its underlying package repository Nixpkgs can also be used on other Linux systems and macOS with the Nix package manager. This release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven months (up until 2026-06-30). The old release 25.05 Warbler is now officially deprecated and will reach its end-of-life and stop receiving security updates after 2025-12-31." The new release also introduces version 49 of the GNOME desktop and updates the LLVM compiler to version 21. "GNOME has been updated to version 49 Brescia, which removes X11 session support, introduces a new video player, a new document viewer, a redesigned calender and more changes. Refer to the release notes for more details. LLVM has been updated to version 21. GCC remains at version 14. CMake was updated to version 4." The release announcement offers additional details. Download (pkglist): latest-nixos-graphical-x86_64-linux.iso (3,497MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-minimal-x86_64-linux.iso (1,511MB, SHA256). |
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| 2025-05-23 |
Distribution Release: NixOS 25.05 |
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NixOS is an independently-developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. The distribution's latest release is version 25.05 "Warbler" which will be supported until the end of 2025. The project's release announcement mentions some key highlights, including the availability of GNOME 48 and COSMIC desktop packages. "The packaging of Mesa graphics drivers has been significantly reworked, in particular: Applications linked against different Mesa versions than installed on the system should now work correctly going forward (however, applications against older Mesa, e.g. from Nixpkgs releases before 25.05, remain broken). The global Mesa version can now be managed without a mass rebuild by setting hardware.graphics.package. Packages that used to depend on Mesa for libgbm or libdri should use libgbm or dri-pkgconfig-stub as inputs, respectively. OpenSSH has been updated from 9.9p2 to 10.0p2, dropping support for DSA keys and adding a new ssh-auth binary to handle user authentication in a different address space from unauthenticated sessions." Download (pkglist): latest-nixos-graphical-x86_64-linux.iso (3,720MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-minimal-x86_64-linux.iso (1,446MB, SHA256). |
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| 2024-06-06 |
Distribution Release: NixOS 24.05 |
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NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management using the Nix package manager. The project has published NixOS 24.05 which includes updates to GNOME (version 46), Plasma (version 6), and the Linux kernel (version 6.6). "In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights: The default kernel package has been updated from 6.1 to 6.6. All supported kernels remain available. For each supporting version of the Linux kernel, firmware blobs are compressed with zstd. For firmware blobs this means an increase of 4.4% in size, however a significantly higher decompression speed. NixOS now installs a stub ELF loader that prints an informative error message when users attempt to run binaries not made for NixOS." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download (pkglist): latest-nixos-gnome-x86_64-linux.iso (2,480MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-plasma6-x86_64-linux.iso (2,948MB, SHA256). |
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| 2023-11-30 |
Distribution Release: NixOS 23.11 |
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NixOS is an independent distribution based around the Nix package andsystem manager. The project's latest release is NixOS 23.11 which upgrades the LLVM build software and introduces GNOME 45, along with several other package upgrades and new modules. "In addition to packages the NixOS distribution also features modules and tests that make it what it is. This release brought 113 new modules and removed 18. In that process we added 1565 options and removed 362. GNOME 45 - GNOME has been updated to version 45 "Rīga", which introduces a new image viewer, a new camera app, and more changes. Refer to the release notes for more details. Default LLVM version - The default version for the LLVM package set has been updated to 16 (from 11) on both Linux and Darwin, which introduced lots of new features and improvements. The full lists of changes are available here (LLVM) and here (Clang)." Additional information is available in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): latest-nixos-gnome-x86_64-linux.iso (2,385MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-plasma5-x86_64-linux.iso (2,555MB, SHA256). |
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| 2023-06-01 |
Distribution Release: NixOS 23.05 |
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NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. The project's latest version, NixOS 23.05, mostly provides updates desktop enviroments and a newer Linux kernel. "In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights: Core version changes: default linux: 5.15 -> 6.1, all supported kernels available. systemd has been updated to v253.1, see the pull request for more info. It’s recommended to use nixos-rebuild boot and reboot, rather than nixos-rebuild switch - since in some rare cases the switch of a live system might fail. glibc: 2.35 -> 2.37. Cinnamon has been updated to 5.6, see the pull request for what is changed. GNOME has been upgraded to version 44. Please see the release notes for details. KDE Plasma has been updated to v5.27, see the release notes for what is changed. Python implements PEP 668, providing better feedback to users that try to run pip install system-wide. nixos-rebuild now supports an extra --specialisation option that can be used to change specialisation for switch and test commands. libxcrypt, the library providing the crypt(3) password hashing function, is now built without support for algorithms not flagged strong. This affects the availability of password hashing algorithms used for system login (login(1), passwd(1)), but also Apache2 Basic-Auth, Samba, OpenLDAP, Dovecot, and many other packages." Additional details are offered in the pojrct's release notes. Download (pkglist): latest-nixos-gnome-x86_64-linux.iso (2,384MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-plasma5-x86_64-linux.iso (2,436MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-minimal-x86_64-linux.iso (812MB, SHA256). |
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| 2022-12-01 |
Distribution Release: NixOS 22.11 |
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NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that uses the advanced Nix package manager for software management and system configuration. The project's latest release is NixOS 22.11 "Raccoon". One of the key changes in this version is an adjustment in how account passwords are handled. The release announcement shares some details: "During the NixOS 22.11 lifecycle old password hashes may need to be updated, because we plan to disable weak password hashes in NixOS 23.05. We consider password hashing methods weak, if the libxcrypt project did not flag them strong. If your system is configured with weak hashes a script will emit a warning during activation. We expect most users accounts to be set up with sha512crypt (hash prefixed with $6$) which we will continue to support. Interactively configured passwords can be updated using passwd, new password hashes can be generated through mkpasswd." Additional information and a summary of changes in the new version of NixOS can be found in the project's release notes. Download (pkglist): latest-nixos-gnome-x86_64-linux.iso (2,290MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-plasma5-x86_64-linux.iso (2,365MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-minimal-x86_64-linux.iso (827MB, SHA256). |
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| 2022-05-30 |
Distribution Release: NixOS 22.05 |
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The NixOS team have announced the launch of NixOS 22.05, the latest version of their distribution which is built around the advanced Nix package manager. "A highlight of the release is Nix 2.8, which brings experimental flakes support for the default installed Nix version, along with tonnes of fixes, features and general improvements. Of course, these are just two things I want to highlight here. Not to mention the countless improvements, bug fixes and new features that have also gone into this release. I would like to thank every single contributor who has contributed to this release. Every NixOS release is an improvement over the previous one and I am already looking forward to the improvements of 22.11. Please remember that the new release also means that 21.11 channel is now obsolete and will only be updated for an another month." Additional information is provided in the release announcement and in the release notes. Download (pkglist): latest-nixos-gnome-x86_64-linux.iso (2,195MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-plasma5-x86_64-linux.iso (1,700MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-minimal-x86_64-linux.iso (824MB, SHA256). |
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| 2021-12-01 |
Distribution Release: NixOS 21.11 |
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NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In NixOS, the entire operating system, including the kernel, applications, system packages and configuration files, are built by the Nix package manager. The project's latest release is NixOS 21.11 which includes the following highlights: "The default Nix version remains at 2.3.16. Nix has not been updated to version 2.4 due to regressions in non-experimental behavior. To upgrade to 2.4, use the nixos-unstable branch or set the nix.package option to either of nixFlakes or nix_2_4 packages. The nixUnstable attribute is a pre-release of Nix 2.5. Read the release notes for more information on upcoming changes. Please help us improve Nix by providing any breakage reports. iptables now uses nf_tables backend. PHP now defaults to PHP 8.0, updated from 7.4. kops now defaults to 1.21.1, which uses containerd as the default runtime. python3 now defaults to Python 3.9, updated from Python 3.8. PostgreSQL now defaults to major version 13." Further information is available through the project's release annoucement and in the release notes. Download (pkglist): latest-nixos-gnome-x86_64-linux.iso (2,028MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-plasma5-x86_64-linux.iso (1,652MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-minimal-x86_64-linux.iso (765MB, SHA256). |
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