From e84a41af75c3999ee3e364e12a4b4fe9a3c6d646 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rnhmjoj Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:16:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc/release-notes: mention nixpkgs.source --- nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md index 074a268b81b6a1..dba3ee6add2861 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ - A `nixos-rebuild build-image` sub-command has been added. It allows users to build platform-specific (disk) images from their NixOS configurations. `nixos-rebuild build-image` works similar to the popular [nix-community/nixos-generators](https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators) project. See new [section on image building in the nixpkgs manual](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/#sec-image-nixos-rebuild-build-image). It is also available for `nixos-rebuild-ng`. +- Using the new `nixpkgs.source` option it is finally possible to build NixOS with a specific Nixpkgs version declaratively, without depending on nix-channel or flakes. + - `nixos-option` has been rewritten to a Nix expression called by a simple bash script. This lowers our maintenance threshold, makes eval errors less verbose, adds support for flake-based configurations, descending into `attrsOf` and `listOf` submodule options, and `--show-trace`.