# Clan Core Changelog 26.01.2026

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**Created:** [January 29, 2026, 4:51am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/clan-core-changelog-26-01-2026/74813 "2026-01-29T04:51:32Z")
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[Clan](https://clan.lol/) is a toolkit that makes it easier to manage networks of VPN-connected NixOS machines.  
The ultimate goal is to lower the barrier to self-hosted services massively and allow anyone to achieve this without special hardware. As of now, using Clan still requires NixOS knowledge, but it already combines several of our Open-Source projects that you may know (nixos-anywhere, sops-nix, nixos-generators, disko, …) into a uniform CLI.

**Changelog:**

🧩 Vars & Core

- Vars UX:
  - Fix multiline prompt entry.
  - Auto-accept previous values by default. [#6441](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6441)
  - Lazy-load previous prompt values to avoid breakage for admins with partial access. [#6546](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6546)

- Refactors and tests [#6543](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6543):
  - Paired on vars upload refactoring and select-caching test debugging.
  - Improved flake test helpers (performance).

- Deprecations and guards:
  - Deprecate access to non-public attributes [#6503](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6503).
  - Add nix-attribute tests to avoid migration breakage [#6539](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6539).

🧰 CLI, CI & Services

- CLI improvements:
  - Add u alias for update [#6413](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6413).
  - Suppress warn-dirty by default [#6491](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6491).
  - Remove deprecated clan flakes inspect [#6545](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6545).
  - Fix Passage missing in CLI [#6494](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6494).
  - clan.directory is now picked up across commands (ref: #5113).

- CI:
  - Init nixf-diagnose [#6489](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6489).
  - Fix label workflow [#6442](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6442).
  - Nixpkgs bump prepared [#6525](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6525).
  - Buildbot/Gitea statuses fix (external): [Fix some skipped builds statuses never getting updated on Gitea by Enzime · Pull Request #549 · nix-community/buildbot-nix · GitHub](https://github.com/nix-community/buildbot-nix/pull/549)
  - Investigated CI regressions (note: Gitea lacks merge queues; ref: #6511).

- Services:
  - CoreDNS updated to new settings options [#6464](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6464).
  - Remove LLM library from core [#6474](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6474).

📚 Docs & Website

- Doc POC merged [#6428](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6428).
- Cleanup and structure:
  - New landing page abstract [#6424](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6424).
  - Minimize custom rendering [#6443](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6443).
  - Remove “…” and other noise [#6501](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6501).
  - Issue template [#6483](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6483).
  - Docs reference stable clan CLI [#6510](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6510).
  - Style/ellipsis fixes [#6508](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6508).
  - Set 25.11 as default docs version [#6500](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6500).

- App issues housekeeping:
  - Cleaned up and resolved multiple App issues (#5692, #5691, #5646, #5643, …).

💿 Imaging & Installer

- ISO and flash:
  - Integration test for ISO PR [#6469](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6469).
  - Investigated and fixed clan flash failure [#6544](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6544).

- Performance:
  - Investigated CLI performance regressions [#6549](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6549).

- Disko:
  - Released disko v1.13.0 (external).
  - Reproduced disko flash issue on Fedora (see [#6544](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6544)).

- Nix installer (external):
  - Switched docs to new nixos native installer; dependency cleanup; offline mode; split GitHub Actions.

🔐 Installation & Secrets

- Password-store installation test [#6390](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6390):
  - Move installation machine [#6475](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6475).
  - Expose installation closure [#6395](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6395).

- Vars generators and docs:
  - Make generator a standalone submodule [#6509](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6509).
  - WIP: Clan-level vars generators [#6520](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6520).
  - Explain secret upload [#6497](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6497).

🧹 Maintenance & Tech Debt

- Small cleanups:
  - [#6502](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6502), [#6507](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6507), [#6519](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6519), [#6518](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6518), [#6515](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6515).

🧠 Data Mesher

- V2 progress:
  - Integrity check on startup; systemd env integration; tombstones for deletions; switch to slog; simplified env binding; large file support; file name validation.

- Migration:
  - Data Mesher migration work [#6478](https://git.clan.lol/clan/clan-core/pulls/6478).

🖥 VMTech / Munix:

- Ongoing: Working on copy & paste / drag & drop between VM and host and edge case debugging (Wayland/Qubes OS area).