diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.14.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.14.md | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.14.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.14.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..705c118bb --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.14.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +# Release 2.14 (2023-02-28) + +* A new function `builtins.readFileType` is available. It is similar to + `builtins.readDir` but acts on a single file or directory. + +* In flakes, the `.outPath` attribute of a flake now always refers to + the directory containing the `flake.nix`. This was not the case for + when `flake.nix` was in a subdirectory of e.g. a Git repository. + The root of the source of a flake in a subdirectory is still + available in `.sourceInfo.outPath`. + +* In derivations that use structured attributes, you can now use `unsafeDiscardReferences` + to disable scanning a given output for runtime dependencies: + ```nix + __structuredAttrs = true; + unsafeDiscardReferences.out = true; + ``` + This is useful e.g. when generating self-contained filesystem images with + their own embedded Nix store: hashes found inside such an image refer + to the embedded store and not to the host's Nix store. + + This requires the `discard-references` experimental feature. |