The time for a new NixOS release is approaching us once again. The release of NixOS 19.09 “Loris” will be managed by @lheckemann and myself. This year, we’re aiming for a feature freeze and branch-off on the 7th of September in order to get a release towards the end of September.
Some of the changes to look forward to from 19.09:
If you have anything big that you want to get into the release, please let us know (@disassembler and @lheckemann on GitHub), especially if you’re not sure if it’ll be in master by then.
Between the 7th of September and the release, we will be working towards Zero Hydra Failures and starting the regular release maintenance work, backporting minor bugfixes and security patches.
Looking forward to working with you for a wonderful release!
for XFCE 4.14 migration I think we have to elect @worldofpeace or @jtojnar as a leader of the project. They have a lot of suggestions I cannot answer (well, my answer is “it works somehow so don’t touch it”). Or maybe @Yana as the initial author of XFCE 4.14 subtree. I just bump versions, fix broken builds and test that everything works, so I can be merely a QA here.
It only needs a changelog entry, apart from that it’s ready to merge. I just have been really short on time to push it forward as I’m busy moving to another country.
Is anyone motivated to update the 19.09 release notes? Currently there is only one entry under the The following new services were added since the last release section.
An update from your 19.09 release managers. Due to conflicts introduced as we were getting ready to merge gcc8, we’re delaying the branch off until Monday at the earliest. Please do not introduce any PR’s into master that cause conflicts against staging-next until we get that merged. At that point, we will cut the release branch and start the Zero Hydra Failures Issue.
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