Use the daemon when we don't have write access to the Nix database

2 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml
index 0aa3e8717aa1..8c2deb394183 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 </partintro>
 -->
 
+<xi:include href="rl-1.12.xml" />
 <xi:include href="rl-1.11.xml" />
 <xi:include href="rl-1.10.xml" />
 <xi:include href="rl-1.9.xml" />
diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.12.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.12.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d6864b3f55d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.12.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<section 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="ssec-relnotes-1.12">
+
+<title>Release 1.12 (TBA)</title>
+
+<para>This release has the following new features:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>It is no longer necessary to set the
+    <envar>NIX_REMOTE</envar> environment variable if you need to use
+    the Nix daemon. Nix will use the daemon automatically if you don’t
+    have write access to the Nix database.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>This release has contributions from TBD.</para>
+
+</section>