In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights: PXE "netboot" media has landed in . See for documentation. Xorg-server-1.18.*. If you choose "ati_unfree" driver, 1.17.* is still used due to ABI incompatibility. The following new services were added since the last release: (this will get automatically generated at release time) When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the following incompatible changes: Shell aliases for systemd sub-commands were dropped: start, stop, restart, status. Redis now binds to 127.0.0.1 only instead of listening to all network interfaces. This is the default behavior of Redis 3.2 Gitlab's maintainence script gitlab-runner was removed and split up into the more clearer gitlab-run and gitlab-rake scripts because gitlab-runner is a component of Gitlab CI. Other notable improvements: Revamped grsecurity/PaX support. There is now only a single general-purpose distribution kernel and the configuration interface has been streamlined. Desktop users should be able to simply set security.grsecurity.enable = true to get a reasonably secure system without having to sacrifice too much functionality. See for documentation