Merge pull request #2388 from grahamc/graham/document-multi-user

Document multi-user installation, and add release notes about it not being the default on 2.1

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+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="ch-upgrading-nix">
+
+  <title>Upgrading Nix</title>
+
+  <para>
+    Multi-user Nix users on macOS can upgrade Nix by running
+    <command>sudo -i sh -c 'nix-channel --update &amp;&amp; nix-env
+    -iA nixpkgs.nix'; sudo launchctl stop org.nixos.nix-daemon; sudo
+    launchctl start org.nixos.nix-daemon</command>.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    Single-user installations of Nix should run <command>nix-channel
+    --update; nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nix</command>.
+  </para>
+
+</chapter>