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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml index 6ead46e6e71d..14ab378e2059 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml @@ -17,6 +17,33 @@ features:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> + <para>Syntactic sugar for writing nested attribute sets. Instead of + +<programlisting> +{ + foo = { + bar = 123; + xyzzy = true; + }; + a = { b = { c = "d"; }; }; +} +</programlisting> + + you can write + +<programlisting> +{ + foo.bar = 123; + foo.xyzzy = true; + a.b.c = "d"; +} +</programlisting> + + This is useful, for instance, in NixOS configuration files.</para> + + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Support for Nix channels generated by Hydra, the Nix-based continuous build system. (Hydra generates NAR archives on the fly, so the size and hash of these archives isn’t known in |