nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml

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<title>Release 16.09 (“Flounder”, 2016/09/??)</title>

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

<itemizedlist>

  <listitem>
    <para>PXE "netboot" media has landed in <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14740" />.
    See <xref linkend="sec-booting-from-pxe" /> for documentation.</para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>Xorg-server-1.18.*. If you choose <literal>"ati_unfree"</literal> driver,
    1.17.* is still used due to ABI incompatibility.</para>
  </listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>The following new services were added since the last release:</para>

  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem><para><literal>(this will get automatically generated at release time)</literal></para></listitem>
  </itemizedlist>


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

<itemizedlist>
  <listitem>
    <para>Shell aliases for systemd sub-commands
    <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/15598">were dropped</link>:
    <command>start</command>, <command>stop</command>,
    <command>restart</command>, <command>status</command>.</para>
  </listitem>
</itemizedlist>


<para>Other notable improvements:</para>

<itemizedlist>

  <listitem><para>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
  <programlisting>security.grsecurity.enable = true</programlisting> to get
  a reasonably secure system without having to sacrifice too much
  functionality.  See <xref linkend="sec-grsecurity" /> for documentation
  </para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>


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