# Release 19.03 (“Koi”, 2019/03/??)

## Highlights

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

- The default Python 3 interpreter is now CPython 3.7 instead of CPython 3.6.

## New Services

The following new services were added since the last release:

- `./programs/nm-applet.nix`

## Backward Incompatibilities

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

- The minimum version of Nix required to evaluate Nixpkgs is now 2.0.

  - For users of NixOS 18.03 and 19.03, NixOS defaults to Nix 2.0, but supports using Nix 1.11 by setting `nix.package = pkgs.nix1;`. If this option is set to a Nix 1.11 package, you will need to either unset the option or upgrade it to Nix 2.0.

  - For users of NixOS 17.09, you will first need to upgrade Nix by setting `nix.package = pkgs.nixStable2;` and run `nixos-rebuild switch` as the `root` user.

  - For users of a daemon-less Nix installation on Linux or macOS, you can upgrade Nix by running `curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh`, or prior to doing a channel update, running `nix-env -iA nix`.

    If you have already run a channel update and Nix is no longer able to evaluate Nixpkgs, the error message printed should provide adequate directions for upgrading Nix.

  - For users of the Nix daemon on macOS, you can upgrade Nix by running `sudo -i sh -c 'nix-channel --update && nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nix'; sudo launchctl stop org.nixos.nix-daemon; sudo launchctl start org.nixos.nix-daemon`.

- The Syncthing state and configuration data has been moved from `services.syncthing.dataDir` to the newly defined `services.syncthing.configDir`, which default to `/var/lib/syncthing/.config/syncthing`. This change makes possible to share synced directories using ACLs without Syncthing resetting the permission on every start.

- The `ntp` module now has sane default restrictions. If you're relying on the previous defaults, which permitted all queries and commands from all firewall-permitted sources, you can set `services.ntp.restrictDefault` and `services.ntp.restrictSource` to `[]`.

- Package `rabbitmq_server` is renamed to `rabbitmq-server`.

- The `light` module no longer uses setuid binaries, but udev rules. As a consequence users of that module have to belong to the `video` group in order to use the executable (i.e. `users.users.yourusername.extraGroups = ["video"];`).

- Buildbot now supports Python 3 and its packages have been moved to `pythonPackages`. The options `services.buildbot-master.package` and `services.buildbot-worker.package` can be used to select the Python 2 or 3 version of the package.

- Options `services.znc.confOptions.networks.name.userName` and `services.znc.confOptions.networks.name.modulePackages` were removed. They were never used for anything and can therefore safely be removed.

- Package `wasm` has been renamed `proglodyte-wasm`. The package `wasm` will be pointed to `ocamlPackages.wasm` in 19.09, so make sure to update your configuration if you want to keep `proglodyte-wasm`

- When the `nixpkgs.pkgs` option is set, NixOS will no longer ignore the `nixpkgs.overlays` option. The old behavior can be recovered by setting `nixpkgs.overlays = lib.mkForce [];`.

- OpenSMTPD has been upgraded to version 6.4.0p1. This release makes backwards-incompatible changes to the configuration file format. See `man smtpd.conf` for more information on the new file format.

- The versioned `postgresql` have been renamed to use underscore number seperators. For example, `postgresql96` has been renamed to `postgresql_9_6`.

- Package `consul-ui` and passthrough `consul.ui` have been removed. The package `consul` now uses upstream releases that vendor the UI into the binary. See #48714 for details.

- Slurm introduces the new option `services.slurm.stateSaveLocation`, which is now set to `/var/spool/slurm` by default (instead of `/var/spool`). Make sure to move all files to the new directory or to set the option accordingly.

  The slurmctld now runs as user `slurm` instead of `root`. If you want to keep slurmctld running as `root`, set `services.slurm.user = root`.

  The options `services.slurm.nodeName` and `services.slurm.partitionName` are now sets of strings to correctly reflect that fact that each of these options can occour more than once in the configuration.

- The `solr` package has been upgraded from 4.10.3 to 7.5.0 and has undergone some major changes. The `services.solr` module has been updated to reflect these changes. Please review http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ carefully before upgrading.

- Package `ckb` is renamed to `ckb-next`, and options `hardware.ckb.*` are renamed to `hardware.ckb-next.*`.

- The option `services.xserver.displayManager.job.logToFile` which was previously set to `true` when using the display managers `lightdm`, `sddm` or `xpra` has been reset to the default value (`false`).

- Network interface indiscriminate NixOS firewall options (`networking.firewall.allow*`) are now preserved when also setting interface specific rules such as `networking.firewall.interfaces.en0.allow*`. These rules continue to use the pseudo device "default" (`networking.firewall.interfaces.default.*`), and assigning to this pseudo device will override the (`networking.firewall.allow*`) options.

- GitLab Shell previously used the nix store paths for the `gitlab-shell` command in its `authorized_keys` file, which might stop working after garbage collection. To circumvent that, we regenerated that file on each startup. As `gitlab-shell` has now been changed to use `/var/run/current-system/sw/bin/gitlab-shell`, this is not necessary anymore, but there might be leftover lines with a nix store path. Regenerate the `authorized_keys` file via `sudo -u git -H gitlab-rake gitlab:shell:setup` in that case.

## Other Notable Changes

- The `services.matomo` module gained the option `services.matomo.package` which determines the used Matomo version.

- The deprecated `truecrypt` package has been removed and `truecrypt` attribute is now an alias for `veracrypt`. VeraCrypt is backward-compatible with TrueCrypt volumes. Note that `cryptsetup` also supports loading TrueCrypt volumes.

- The Kubernetes DNS addons, kube-dns, has been replaced with CoreDNS. This change is made in accordance with Kubernetes making CoreDNS the official default starting from Kubernetes v1.11. Please beware that upgrading DNS-addon on existing clusters might induce minor downtime while the DNS-addon terminates and re-initializes. Also note that the DNS-service now runs with 2 pod replicas by default. The desired number of replicas can be configured using: `services.kubernetes.addons.dns.replicas`.