From a8eeea419e98223cf465cc17c27fdc017d8fc7ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Ringer <jonringer117@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 22:26:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] nixos/release-notes: Initial grooming of release notes
(cherry picked from commit f15d286aaca6f7bd9f246c72978992ea8bb73e63)
---
nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml
index 84b4d17bfaf..0b0bf68f9db 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
xml:id="sec-release-21.05">
<title>Release 21.05 (“Okapi”, 2021.05/31)</title>
+ <para>
+ Support is planned until the end of December 2021, handing over to 21.11.
+ </para>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
@@ -18,18 +21,80 @@
</para>
<itemizedlist>
+
<listitem>
<para>
- Support is planned until the end of December 2021, handing over to 21.11.
+ Core version changes:
</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ gcc: 9.3.0 -> 10.3.0
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ glibc: 2.30 -> 2.32
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ default linux: 5.4 -> 5.10, all supported kernels available
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ mesa: 20.1.7 -> 21.0.1
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The default Linux kernel was updated to the 5.10 LTS series, coming from the 5.4 LTS series.</para>
<para>The <package>linux_latest</package> kernel was updated to the 5.12 series. It currently is not officially supported for use with the zfs filesystem. If you use zfs, you should use a different kernel version (either the LTS kernel, or track a specific one). </para>
+ <para>
+ Desktop Environments:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Gnome: 3.36 -> 3.40, see its <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.40/">release notes</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Plasma5: 5.18.5 -> 5.21.3
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ kdeApplications: 20.08.1 -> 20.12.3
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ cinnamon: 4.6 -> 4.8.1
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</listitem>
+
<listitem>
- <para>GNOME desktop environment was upgraded to 40, see the release notes for <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/">40.0</link> and <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/">3.38</link>. The <code>gnome3</code> attribute set has been renamed to <code>gnome</code> and so have been the NixOS options.</para>
+ <para>
+ Programming Languages and Frameworks:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Python optimizations were disabled again. Builds with optimizations enabled
+ are not reproducible. Optimizations can now be enabled with an option.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
</listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://www.gnuradio.org/">GNURadio</link> 3.8 was
@@ -193,6 +258,10 @@
</para>
<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>GNOME desktop environment was upgraded to 40, see the release notes for <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/">40.0</link> and <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/">3.38</link>. The <code>gnome3</code> attribute set has been renamed to <code>gnome</code> and so have been the NixOS options.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
If you are using <option>services.udev.extraRules</option> to assign