nix-super/doc/manual/rl-next/zzz-other.md

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Other changes

• #9063: introduce libnixflake and move flakes-specific code there (Nix is internally composed of a set of libraries, and this better reflects the architecture wrt flakes)
• #10852: make Nix commands respond better to interruption - Ctrl+C in the terminal
• #10853: fix docs of builtins.importNative
• #10858: flake check: Recognize well known homeModule/homeModules attribute
• #10865: Update dependencies to Nixpkgs 24.05 (when using the nix flake), and support bdwgc 8.2.6 (#11141, #10880)
• #10883: Use TMP instead of XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
• #10994: fix minor bug in elided item counts when printing values lazily
• #10988: restore commit-lockfile-summary alias
• #10941: invalid derivation name now causes an actionable error message
• Changes to the interaction between Nix's I/O coroutines and the garbage collector:
• #10878: allow ipc-sysv* in the Darwin build sandbox
• #11031: fix Darwin build sandbox
• #10907: use opaque struct instead of void * in the C API
• #10947: fix evaluation cache accidentally persisting disallowed IFD errors
• #11020: enable fetch and eval caching for tarballs
• #11041: add discovered attribute paths to the --show-trace error trace in nix-build, nix-env, OfBorg, and other callers of getDerivations
• #11056: s3 store now uses system defined proxy settings
• #11077: support hardlinks in tarballs
• #11100: pretty print values consistently regardless of prior thunk state
• #11086: fix loss of evaluation cache additions in nix env run, nix shell, nix develop, and nix fmt
• #11149: report GC time and number of GC cycles in NIX_SHOW_STATS=1 report
• #11142: aliased options can now also be passed as flags, just like their "normal" counterparts, e.g. --build-max-jobs now works
• #11043: assert a == b; e now reports some detail about why a and b are different when they are
• #11159: don't crash a nix-daemon worker process when the client disconnects
• Stability improvements and fixes #10861, #10865, #10918, #10916, #10884, #10943, #11019, #11122, #11117
• User documentation improvements #10888, #10966, #10974, #10997, #11013, #11059, #11119, #11116, #11061, #11102
• BSD support: #10896 #11022 #11156
• Windows support: #10769, #10975 #11153
• Portability: #7048 #11090
• Installer improvements #10902
• Performance improvements #10853, #10854, #11082, #11092, #11113

Contributor experience improvements:

Use Meson to build Nix (nearing completion) #10855 #10904 #10908 #10914 #10933 #10936 #10954 #10955 #10967 #10963 #10973 #11034 #11054 #11055 #11064 #11060 #11155

• Testing improvements #10864, #10903, #10874, #10922, #11006, #11110, #10931, #11123
  • #10603: We now evaluate a set of flakes in CI
  • #10922: The functional test suite is now run in both in the build sandbox and in a NixOS environment
• CI improvements #10929 #10999 #11009 #11065 #11071
• Contributor documentation improvements #10869, #9871, #10960, #11147
• Error message improvements: #11050 #11154
• Cleaning up the Settings system (nix.conf and related architectural cleanups): #10913, #10951, #11007, #11108, #11014, #11109, #11112
• Other cleanups and refactors #10857 #10935 #10873 #10745 #10961 #10962 #10972 #11018 #11035 #11037 #11081 #11089 #11093 #11114 #11103 #11126 #11125 #11120
• Scheduler/builder refactoring #11005
• #11011: enable -Werror=unused-result