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<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-2.1">
<title>Release 2.1 (2018-08-31)</title>
<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. It also reduces memory
consumption in certain situations. In addition, it has the following
new features:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>New builtin functions:
<literal>builtins.bitAnd</literal>,
<literal>builtins.bitOr</literal>,
<literal>builtins.bitXor</literal>,
<literal>builtins.fromTOML</literal>,
<literal>builtins.concatMap</literal>,
<literal>builtins.mapAttrs</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The S3 binary cache store now supports uploading NARs larger
than 5 GiB.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The S3 binary cache store now supports uploading to
S3-compatible services with the <literal>endpoint</literal>
option.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The flag <option>--fallback</option> is no longer required
to recover from disappeared NARs in binary caches.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>nix-daemon</command> now respects
<option>--store</option>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>nix run</command> now respects
<varname>nix-support/propagated-user-env-packages</varname>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The Nix installer will no longer default to the Multi-User
installation for macOS. You can still <link
linkend="sect-multi-user-installation">instruct the installer to
run in multi-user mode</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The Nix installer now supports performing a Multi-User
installation for Linux computers which are running systemd. You
can <link
linkend="sect-multi-user-installation">select a Multi-User installation</link> by passing the
<option>--daemon</option> flag to the installer: <command>sh <(curl
https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon</command>.
</para>
<para>The multi-user installer cannot handle systems with SELinux.
If your system has SELinux enabled, you can <link
linkend="sect-single-user-installation">force the installer to run
in single-user mode</link>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
Multi-user Nix users on macOS can upgrade Nix by running
<command>sudo -i sh -c 'nix-channel --update && nix-env -iA
nixpkgs.nix'; sudo launchctl stop org.nixos.nix-daemon; sudo
launchctl start org.nixos.nix-daemon</command>.
</para>
<para>This release has contributions from
Adrien Devresse,
Aleksandr Pashkov,
Alexandre Esteves,
Amine Chikhaoui,
Andrew Dunham,
Asad Saeeduddin,
aszlig,
Ben Challenor,
Ben Gamari,
Benjamin Hipple,
Bogdan Seniuc,
Corey O'Connor,
Daiderd Jordan,
Daniel Peebles,
Daniel Poelzleithner,
Danylo Hlynskyi,
Dmitry Kalinkin,
Domen Kožar,
Doug Beardsley,
Eelco Dolstra,
Erik Arvstedt,
Félix Baylac-Jacqué,
Gleb Peregud,
Graham Christensen,
Guillaume Maudoux,
Ivan Kozik,
John Arnold,
Justin Humm,
Linus Heckemann,
Lorenzo Manacorda,
Matthew Justin Bauer,
Matthew O'Gorman,
Maximilian Bosch,
Michael Bishop,
Michael Fiano,
Michael Mercier,
Michael Raskin,
Michael Weiss,
Nicolas Dudebout,
Peter Simons,
Ryan Trinkle,
Samuel Dionne-Riel,
Sean Seefried,
Shea Levy,
Symphorien Gibol,
Tim Engler,
Tim Sears,
Tuomas Tynkkynen,
volth,
Will Dietz,
Yorick van Pelt and
zimbatm.
</para>
</section>
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