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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-22.11">
<title>Release 22.11 (“Raccoon”, 2022.11/??)</title>
<para>
Support is planned until the end of June 2023, handing over to
23.05.
</para>
<section xml:id="sec-release-22.11-highlights">
<title>Highlights</title>
<para>
In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
has the following highlights:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
During cross-compilation, tests are now executed if the test
suite can be executed by the build platform. This is the case
when doing “native” cross-compilation where the build and host
platforms are largely the same, but the nixpkgs’ cross
compilation infrastructure is used, e.g.
<literal>pkgsStatic</literal> and <literal>pkgsLLVM</literal>.
Another possibility is that the build platform is a superset
of the host platform, e.g. when cross-compiling from
<literal>x86_64-unknown-linux</literal> to
<literal>i686-unknown-linux</literal>. The predicate gating
test suite execution is the newly added
<literal>canExecute</literal> predicate: You can e.g. check if
<literal>stdenv.buildPlatform</literal> can execute binaries
built for <literal>stdenv.hostPlatform</literal> (i.e.
produced by <literal>stdenv.cc</literal>) by evaluating
<literal>stdenv.buildPlatform.canExecute stdenv.hostPlatform</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
PHP now defaults to PHP 8.1, updated from 8.0.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-release-22.11-new-services">
<title>New Services</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/jollheef/appvm">appvm</link>,
Nix based app VMs. Available as
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.appvm.enable">virtualisation.appvm</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://dragonflydb.io/">dragonflydb</link>,
a modern replacement for Redis and Memcached. Available as
<link linkend="opt-services.dragonflydb.enable">services.dragonflydb</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/leetronics/infnoise">infnoise</link>,
a hardware True Random Number Generator dongle. Available as
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.infnoise.enable">services.infnoise</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/aiberia/persistent-evdev">persistent-evdev</link>,
a daemon to add virtual proxy devices that mirror a physical
input device but persist even if the underlying hardware is
hot-plugged. Available as
<link linkend="opt-services.persistent-evdev.enable">services.persistent-evdev</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://www.expressvpn.com">expressvpn</link>,
the CLI client for ExpressVPN. Available as
<link linkend="opt-services.expressvpn.enable">services.expressvpn</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-release-22.11-incompatibilities">
<title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>isCompatible</literal> predicate checking CPU
compatibility is no longer exposed by the platform sets
generated using <literal>lib.systems.elaborate</literal>. In
most cases you will want to use the new
<literal>canExecute</literal> predicate instead which also
considers the kernel / syscall interface. It is briefly
described in the release’s
<link linkend="sec-release-22.11-highlights">highlights
section</link>.
<literal>lib.systems.parse.isCompatible</literal> still
exists, but has changed semantically: Architectures with
differing endianness modes are <emphasis>no longer considered
compatible</emphasis>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>isPowerPC</literal> predicate, found on
<literal>platform</literal> attrsets
(<literal>hostPlatform</literal>,
<literal>buildPlatform</literal>,
<literal>targetPlatform</literal>, etc) has been removed in
order to reduce confusion. The predicate was was defined such
that it matches only the 32-bit big-endian members of the
POWER/PowerPC family, despite having a name which would imply
a broader set of systems. If you were using this predicate,
you can replace <literal>foo.isPowerPC</literal> with
<literal>(with foo; isPower && is32bit && isBigEndian)</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
PHP 7.4 is no longer supported due to upstream not supporting
this version for the entire lifecycle of the 22.11 release.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
(Neo)Vim can not be configured with
<literal>configure.pathogen</literal> anymore to reduce
maintainance burden. Use <literal>configure.packages</literal>
instead.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-release-22.11-notable-changes">
<title>Other Notable Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
A new module was added for the Saleae Logic device family,
providing the options
<literal>hardware.saleae-logic.enable</literal> and
<literal>hardware.saleae-logic.package</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Matrix Synapse now requires entries in the
<literal>state_group_edges</literal> table to be unique, in
order to prevent accidentally introducing duplicate
information (for example, because a database backup was
restored multiple times). If your Synapse database already has
duplicate rows in this table, this could fail with an error
and require manual remediation.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
memtest86+ was updated from 5.00-coreboot-002 to 6.00-beta2.
It is now the upstream version from https://www.memtest.org/,
as coreboot’s fork is no longer available.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>
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