NixOS 24.05 — Feature Freeze & Release Blockers

[wegank]

Hi, we are Weijia Wang & Jörg Thalheim, the release managers for NixOS 24.05 ("Uakari").

As we approach the next release of NixOS, it's time to discuss the upcoming feature freeze period. We want to ensure that this release is as stable and reliable as possible, and your contributions are crucial to achieving that goal, here are the two upcoming dates in that context:

• 2024-04-17: Restrict breaking changes to Release Critical Packages
• 2024-05-01: Restrict all breaking changes except for desktop environments.

The complete timeline is available here:

• NixOS 24.05 — Release Schedule #303285

The first restriction will be in place very soon, therefore, we encourage all teams to check in now and mention possible roadblocks, so we get a good overview of what's ahead.

Blockers

Whether you were pinged or not, we encourage everyone to create issues for release blockers and add them to the 24.05 Blockers project.

Check-in

Please comment your status quo and possible issues as soon as possible. We'll check teams once they have checked in.

If you think some subsystem, person or team should be added or removed from this list, update maintainers/team-list.nix in time before the next feature freeze announcement.

Desktop environments

• Cinnamon: @bobby285271 @mkg20001
• DDE: @wineee
• Enlightenment: @NixOS/enlightenment
• GNOME: @NixOS/gnome @bobby285271 @dasj19 @amaxine
• Lomiri: @OPNA2608
• Lumina: @NixOS/lumina
• LXQt: @NixOS/lxqt
• MATE: @bobby285271 @johannesloetzsch @romildo
• Pantheon: @NixOS/pantheon
• Qt / KDE: @NixOS/qt-kde @ilya-fedin @K900 @LunNova @mjm @NickCao @SuperSandro2000
• Xfce: @bobby285271 @romildo @muscaln

Platforms

• Darwin: @NixOS/darwin-maintainers

Languages ecosystem

• BEAM: @NixOS/beam @minijackson
• C: @matthewbauer @Mic92
• Coq: @CohenCyril @Zimmi48 @siraben @vbgl @Alizter
• Dhall: @Gabriella439 @ehmry
• Go: @NixOS/golang
• Haskell: @NixOS/haskell
• Lisp: @NixOS/lisp @hraban
• Lua: @NixOS/lua
• Node.js: @lilyinstarlight @marsam @winterqt
• OCaml: @NixOS/ocaml @Alizter @vbgl
• Perl: @stigtsp
• PHP: @NixOS/php
• Python: @FRidh @mweinelt @jonringer @tjni
• R: @bcdarwin @jbedo
• Ruby: @marsam
• Rust: @NixOS/rust
• Zig: @AndersonTorres @figsoda

Compilers, build systems

• Bazel: @mboes @marsam @uri-canva @avdv @olebedev @groodt @aherrmann @ylecornec
• LLVM: @dtzWill @Ericson2314 @lovek323 @alyssais @RossComputerGuy @rrbutani @sternenseemann

Programs

• Geospatial: @NixOS/geospatial @l0b0

Modules

• ACME: @aanderse @andrew-d @arianvp @emilazy @flokli @m1cr0man
• systemd: @NixOS/systemd

Core

• Docs:
• Marketing: @garbas @tomberek
• Module system: @infinisil @roberth
• Nix/nix-cli ecosystem: @NixOS/nix-team
• NixOS tests: @tfc

Everyone Else

@NixOS/nixpkgs-committers @NixOS/release-engineers

Finally

No issue is too big or too small, but let's remember that we are all working on the project voluntarily in our free time here, so let's focus on issues that can be realistically addressed in the remaining time before the release.

We thank everyone for their contribution!

[wegank]

More pings since GitHub limits the amount of pings, please refer to the original issue for the checkboxes.

Compilers, build systems

• LLVM: [...] @rrbutani @sternenseemann

Programs

• Geospatial: [...] @l0b0

Modules

• ACME: @aanderse @andrew-d @arianvp @emilazy @flokli @m1cr0man

Internals

• Docs: @ryantm
• Marketing: @garbas @tomberek
• Module system: @infinisil @roberth
• Nix/nix-cli ecosystem: @edolstra @grahamc @nbp
• NixOS tests: @tfc

[RossComputerGuy]

On my side, LLVM is good to go. I would like to get #299807 in but isn't a blocker. If it can get in before the release then that'll be cool.

[K900]

Plasma is as good as it's going to be probably, though #300933 would be nice to get in.

[tfc]

@wegank The only thing regarding NixOS tests that should ideally be sorted before the next release is the situation regarding #303187 and #303150.

Should be a minor thing but i consider it important.
Summary: NixOS integration tests work just fine on macOS, but currently they are marked as not supported by the platform list. Just need to resolve this.

update: this has been resolved via #303597

[ElvishJerricco]

I would be very disappointed if 24.05 didn't include systemd stage 1 by default, but I do have a lot of work left to make that happen. This issue looks worse than it is. Hopefully I can power this out in the next week or two. Any help would be appreciated.

[arianvp]

I would like to have https://nixos.github.io/amis either linked from the homepage or integrated into the homepage. So that people are aware again that there are AWS AMIs for 24.05!

Happy to coordinate with the marketing team on this

[imincik]

Geospatial software (@NixOS/geospatial) is in pretty good shape, no major changes are required, just regular maintenance.

[maralorn]

I think the Haskell packages are fine since we just updated to GHC 9.6. We will do another round of "remove all broken flags and see how many packages do actually build now" before release, but we have plenty of time for that.

[raboof]

For the Reproducible Builds initiative in NixOS, I think we are in good shape: for us the only blockers should be issues that prevent reproduction of the minimal iso. While Reproducible Builds does list some of those, the jfsutils nondeterminism seems sporadic and the others have known workarounds or a PR ready (#303436).

[garbas]

I would like to have https://nixos.github.io/amis either linked from the homepage or integrated into the homepage. So that people are aware again that there are AWS AMIs for 24.05!

Happy to coordinate with the marketing team on this

Awesome work. Let's get this work done ... are you able to do this work yourself, or you need some help from the marketing team?

The relevant code is here:

• https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/blob/main/src/components/pages/download/AWSTable.astro
• https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/blob/main/flake.nix#L63-L65

[hraban]

Lisp compilers are good to go 👍

[wineee]

No blockers for deepin

deepin will release v23 at the end of May, and I plan to port it on 24.11

[bobby285271]

No blockers for all GNOME-adjacent desktop environments I maintain so far, unfortunately I lost track of GNOME 46 update progress and I believe I really need to get around to test all the stuff there.