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20.09 Release notes #95765

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jonringer opened this issue Aug 18, 2020 · 24 comments · Fixed by #101444
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20.09 Release notes #95765

jonringer opened this issue Aug 18, 2020 · 24 comments · Fixed by #101444
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jonringer commented Aug 18, 2020 •
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This thread is for any release-worthy notes which may have not have made their way into https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2009.xml yet.

Please leave a summary and any relevant links to the items. I will try and go through them before the release to ensure the notes are in order.

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Python35 was removed #95305

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agda infrastructure was reworked quite heavily #76653 . This has some documentation but I'm not sure if it needs release notes as well.

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@alexarice I'm sure agda users would appreciate it

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@jonringer did you want me to make a pull request?

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@alexarice That would be great 👍, if you're feeling up to it

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@jonringer have no idea how to use docbook but I'll give it a go

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That makes two of us, but I wouldn't expect it would take very long to learn enough to create release notes. Plus there's already many commits which demonstrate how to do additions.

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danieldk commented Aug 31, 2020 •
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I should probably add a blurb to other notable changes about the addition of part of the AMD ROCm stack. @Flakebi do you think it is worthwhile adding something about amdvlk as well? If so, I can add an item summarizing all new features on the AMD GPU front.

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Flakebi commented Aug 31, 2020

A short mention that amdvlk can now be added to hardware.opengl.extraPackages is probably worth it. Thanks!

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We updated fontconfig #73795 and changed an integral way in how fontconfig is setup on nixos #95358. The latter PR isn't merged yet but I believe it's going to be.

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mkg20001 commented Sep 8, 2020

If not already added, a note about cinnamon desktop 4.6 now being available

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Release notes are able to be added even after branch-off, however, they will need to follow backporting conventions and first be merged into master

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It's the source of this is not immediately clear, but if it's introduced in this release I think it warrants a note: #96753 (comment) "Deprecate boot.cleanTmpDir?"

(Maybe we should just start pasting the systemd release notes in the release too? :P)

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Not sure if this the right place to ask this as this isn't technically release notes but would be good to get #98084 merged and backported as it has fixes for agda part of the manual

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I plan to write the release notes this weekend.

Unpinning to give "spotlight" to release blocking discussion in #95475

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Jiehong commented Sep 28, 2020

  • Some packages have changed names (ex: source-han fonts are no longer split by language).
  • Emacs 25Packages dropped

Is there a migration guide/tool usually, or are people supposed to find out from the release note + updating their channel, and trying to build their environment manually?

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It should be available on the website, not sure in which way people typically consume the manual

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jtojnar commented Oct 9, 2020

Fontconfig in #100103

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Nvidia Optimus/Prime is fully usable now, might be worth adding.

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Nvidia Optimus/Prime is fully usable now, might be worth adding.

Could you link the PR that did this? (and maybe ping the author as well)

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Nvidia Optimus/Prime is fully usable now, might be worth adding.

Could you link the PR that did this? (and maybe ping the author as well)

#66601

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all items have been marked as done

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Was plasma noted and notable updates?

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-_- you're right, we should have core and desktop changes like we had for 20.03

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