Clan Weekly Changelog 19.11.2025

Clan 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.

:books: Documentation

  • Began work on versioned documentation for the stable release process.

:building_construction: Infrastructure & Build System

  • Fixed niks3 upload bug.
  • SSH agent improvements (WIP) #5803.
  • Created reproducible demo script with Harmonia: automated-demo-setup.

:toolbox: Core Development & Testing

  • Bug fixes and maintenance:
  • Nixpkgs bump: major effort #5595.
    • Extensive bisecting; reduced failing tests from ~90 to 1.
    • Breakage tracking documented.
  • Testing infrastructure:
    • Test Setup 2 attempted with local VirtualBox VMs.
    • Identified NixOS release compatibility issues.
    • Found potential IP management issues for further investigation.

:desktop_computer: VMTech / Virtualization

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