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 <title>Release 21.03 (“Okapi”, 2021.03/??)</title>

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  <title>Highlights</title>

  <para>
   In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the
   following highlights:
  </para>

  <itemizedlist>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     Support is planned until the end of October 2021, handing over to 21.09.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>GNOME desktop environment was upgraded to 3.38, see its <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/">release notes</link>.</para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     <link xlink:href="https://www.gnuradio.org/">GNURadio</link> 3.8 was
     <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/82263">finnally</link>
     packaged, along with a rewrite to the Nix expressions, allowing users to
     override the features upstream supports selecting to compile or not to.
     Additionally, the attribute <code>gnuradio</code> and <code>gnuradio3_7</code>
     now point to an externally wrapped by default derivations, that allow you to
     also add `extraPythonPackages` to the Python interpreter used by GNURadio.
     Missing environmental variables needed for operational GUI were also added
     (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/75478">#7547</link>).
    </para>
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  <title>New Services</title>

  <para>
   The following new services were added since the last release:
  </para>

  <itemizedlist>
   <listitem>
     <para>
       <link xlink:href="https://www.keycloak.org/">Keycloak</link>,
       an open source identity and access management server with
       support for <link
       xlink:href="https://openid.net/connect/">OpenID Connect</link>,
       <link xlink:href="https://oauth.net/2/">OAUTH 2.0</link> and
       <link xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML_2.0">SAML
       2.0</link>.
     </para>
     <para>
       See the <link linkend="module-services-keycloak">Keycloak
       section of the NixOS manual</link> for more information.
     </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
     <para>
       <xref linkend="opt-services.samba-wsdd.enable" /> Web Services Dynamic Discovery host daemon
     </para>
   </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>

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         xml:id="sec-release-21.03-incompatibilities">
  <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>

  <para>
   When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the following
   incompatible changes:
  </para>

  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>systemd-journal2gelf</literal> no longer parses json and expects the receiving system to handle it. How to achieve this with Graylog is described in this <link xlink:href="https://github.com/parse-nl/SystemdJournal2Gelf/issues/10">GitHub issue</link>.
      </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     If the <varname>services.dbus</varname> module is enabled, then
     the user D-Bus session is now always socket activated. The
     associated options <varname>services.dbus.socketActivated</varname>
     and <varname>services.xserver.startDbusSession</varname> have
     therefore been removed and you will receive a warning if
     they are present in your configuration. This change makes the
     user D-Bus session available also for non-graphical logins.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
     <para>
       <literal>rubyMinimal</literal> was removed due to being unused and
       unusable. The default ruby interpreter includes JIT support, which makes
       it reference it's compiler. Since JIT support is probably needed by some
       Gems, it was decided to enable this feature with all cc references by
       default, and allow to build a Ruby derivation without references to cc,
       by setting <literal>jitSupport = false;</literal> in an overlay. See
       <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/90151">#90151</link>
       for more info.
     </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
     <para>
       Setting <option>services.openssh.authorizedKeysFiles</option> now also affects which keys <option>security.pam.enableSSHAgentAuth</option> will use.

       WARNING: If you are using these options in combination do make sure that any key paths you use are present in <option>services.openssh.authorizedKeysFiles</option>!
     </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     The option <option>fonts.enableFontDir</option> has been renamed to
     <xref linkend="opt-fonts.fontDir.enable"/>. The path of font directory
     has also been changed to <literal>/run/current-system/sw/share/X11/fonts</literal>,
     for consistency with other X11 resources.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
      A number of options have been renamed in the kicad interface. <literal>oceSupport</literal>
      has been renamed to <literal>withOCE</literal>, <literal>withOCCT</literal> has been renamed
      to <literal>withOCC</literal>, <literal>ngspiceSupport</literal> has been renamed to
      <literal>withNgspice</literal>, and <literal>scriptingSupport</literal> has been renamed to
      <literal>withScripting</literal>. Additionally, <literal>kicad/base.nix</literal> no longer
      provides default argument values since these are provided by
      <literal>kicad/default.nix</literal>.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
      The socket for the <literal>pdns-recursor</literal> module was moved from <literal>/var/lib/pdns-recursor</literal>
      to <literal>/run/pdns-recursor</literal> to match upstream.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
      Paperwork was updated to version 2. The on-disk format slightly changed,
      and it is not possible to downgrade from Paperwork 2 back to Paperwork
      1.3. Back your documents up before upgrading. See <link xlink:href="https://forum.openpaper.work/t/paperwork-2-0/112/5">this thread</link> for more details.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
      PowerDNS has been updated from <literal>4.2.x</literal> to <literal>4.3.x</literal>. Please
      be sure to review the <link xlink:href="https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/upgrading.html#x-to-4-3-0">Upgrade Notes</link>
      provided by upstream before upgrading. Worth specifically noting is that the service now runs
      entirely as a dedicated <literal>pdns</literal> user, instead of starting as <literal>root</literal>
      and dropping privileges, as well as the default <literal>socket-dir</literal> location changing from
      <literal>/var/lib/powerdns</literal> to <literal>/run/pdns</literal>.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
    <package>btc1</package> has been abandoned upstream, and removed.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
    <package>cpp_ethereum</package> (aleth) has been abandoned upstream, and removed.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
    <package>riak-cs</package> package removed along with <varname>services.riak-cs</varname> module.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
    <package>stanchion</package> package removed along with <varname>services.stanchion</varname> module.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     <package>mutt</package> has been updated to a new major version (2.x), which comes with
     some backward incompatible changes that are described in the
     <link xlink:href="http://www.mutt.org/relnotes/2.0/">release notes for Mutt 2.0</link>.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
      <literal>vim</literal> switched to Python 3, dropping all Python 2 support.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
     <para>
      <link linkend="opt-boot.zfs.forceImportAll">boot.zfs.forceImportAll</link>
      previously did nothing, but has been fixed. However its default has been
      changed to <literal>false</literal> to preserve the existing default
      behaviour. If you have this explicitly set to <literal>true</literal>,
      please note that your non-root pools will now be forcibly imported.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
     <package>openafs</package> now points to <package>openafs_1_8</package>,
     which is the new stable release.  OpenAFS 1.6 was removed.
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>
      The <literal>openldap</literal> module now has support for OLC-style
      configuration, users of the <literal>configDir</literal> option may wish
      to migrate. If you continue to use <literal>configDir</literal>, ensure that
      <literal>olcPidFile</literal> is set to <literal>/run/slapd/slapd.pid</literal>.
    </para>
    <para>
      As a result,