Clan Weekly Changelog 26.11.2025

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

  • Added interactive initialization of hardware configuration (#5862)
  • Updated installation docs to use init-hardware-config command instead of nixos-anywhere steps (#5844)
  • Added installation information to virtual machine deployment page (#5845)
  • Updated template listing (#5801)
  • Added mike version provider for mkdocs with versioning proposal (#5861)

:toolbox: Core Development & Testing

  • Vars improvements:
    • Always generate all vars to fix cross-machine dependencies (#5854)
    • Ongoing work on vars performance improvements and bug fixes
    • Improved detection/prevention of variable cycles exposed by exports feature
  • Fixed flaky tests (#5837)
  • Fixed upload function (#5831)
  • Nixpkgs bump: Ongoing work (#5595)

:sparkles: Features

  • Exports system: Continued development and testing (#5703)
    • Collecting feedback and addressing integration issues
  • Image generation: New clan image feature with technical documentation (#5824)
  • Installation improvements: Commit reports generated during clan machines install (#5864)
  • Improved Data Mesher clan service to work with multiple hostnames (#5839)

:building_construction: External Projects

nixos-facter

  • Enabled arm64 in CI and created PR for nixpkgs upstream (#256)
  • Responded to community issue (#255)

disko

  • Work on updating disko in nixpkgs (#1160)

muvm

  • Fixed undefined behaviour Pipewire bug (#204)
  • NixOS static userborn changes reducing boot time by 100ms

:bug: Bug Fixes

  • Resolved issue #5819
  • Various CI improvements and fixes
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