# NixOS 20.03 Feature Freeze
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [January 27, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655 "2020-01-27T20:00:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@worldofpeace](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/worldofpeace)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/1 "2020-01-27T20:00:32Z")
Hey everyone ✌
Samuel Leathers (@disassembler) and I are super pleased to be your release managers for the forthcoming release of NixOS 20.03 [**Markhor**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markhor), and as such we get to announce to you that it’s our intention to have feature freeze and branch off on **February 10th** ✨ .
So many great improvements have already landed into master or are in progress:
- Python NixOS Testing Driver ([nixos/tests: Leftover tasks towards unified Python integration tests · Issue #72828 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/72828))
- Default to GCC 9 ([Default gcc to gcc9 by globin · Pull Request #68029 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/68029))
- python 3.8 ([python3: switch to python38 for 20.09 · Issue #71220 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/71220))
- Gnome 3.34 ([Gnome 3.34 by hedning · Pull Request #68608 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/68608))
…(more and more everyday day thanks to all of you)
Please comment on this thread if you need a feature in the [20.03 milestone](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/milestone/17), and mentions on GitHub are also appropriate. If something is critical that you need to mention to us quickly we’re available on IRC Freenode. Our nicks are worldofpeace and disasm.
From then on we’ll be embarking on NixOS beta activities, which includes (not limited to):
- Zero Hydra Failures
- Updating documentation and release notes
- typical release maintenance, backporting bugfixes and security patches
We look forward to hearing from all of you, let’s go.
with change **and** constancy  - worldofpeace
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### Author:  [@samueldr](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/samueldr)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/2 "2020-01-27T20:38:46Z")
🎉
Hopefully we can get staging, then staging-next in shape so that cross-compiling works for the branch-off. Thinking mostly about how recently glibc didn’t cross-compile on unstable.
Staging peeps: anything we can do to help this happen?
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### Author:  [@samueldr](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/samueldr)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/3 "2020-01-27T20:51:19Z")
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### Author:  [@Ma27](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/Ma27)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/4 "2020-01-27T21:22:47Z")
I’m absolutely not sure atm if this can be finished on time (and we have a graceful testing period after this), but it would be pretty cool to see the glibc update ([glibc: 2.27 -\> 2.30 WIP by lblasc · Pull Request #66528 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/66528)) in 20.03.
Oh and congrats on becoming a release manager @worldofpeace 🙂
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### Author:  [@jonringer](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jonringer)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/5 "2020-01-27T21:52:33Z")
Eek, I need to get on that documentation I obligated myself to do.
I hate moving, burns so much time.
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### Author:  [@vcunat](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/vcunat)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/6 "2020-01-28T15:41:26Z")
What kernel version shall we have? [linuxPackages: 4.19 -\> 5.4 by vcunat · Pull Request #78713 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/78713)
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### Author:  [@manveru](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/manveru)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/7 "2020-01-28T17:52:00Z")
I’d love for [crystal: 0.31.1 -\> 0.32.1 by kimburgess · Pull Request #75545 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/75545) to get into the release. Seems like the PR author is afk there though.
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### Author:  [@bbigras](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/bbigras)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/8 "2020-01-30T22:57:13Z")
I would like:
- ~~[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/78543~~](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/78543~~)
- [Restic fixes: pruning, process substitution (take 2) by Mic92 · Pull Request #78886 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/78886)
both PRs looks actives.
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### Author:  [@worldofpeace](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/worldofpeace)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/9 "2020-01-30T23:04:57Z")
The dnscrypt-proxy2 addition and deprecation of dnscrypt-proxy is a while coming and we should totally get that in 20.03.
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### Author:  [@FRidh](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/FRidh)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/10 "2020-01-30T23:22:30Z")
If you have any mass-rebuild changes that you would like to get in for 20.03, now is the time to get them merged into staging.
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### Author:  [@danieldk](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/danieldk)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/11 "2020-01-31T07:11:24Z")
I hesitated in posting this, since I am not a KDE expert and I haven’t contributed to any of the efforts to make this happen, but it would be nice if KDE Plasma worked out of the box.
As far as I understand this is largely blocked by something that is still not properly wrapped:
[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/56988#issuecomment-549466659](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/56988#issuecomment-549466659)
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### Author:  [@azazel75](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/azazel75)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/12 "2020-01-31T12:16:44Z")
Please include [squeezelite: Fix codec libraries loading by using a wrapper by azazel75 · Pull Request #76587 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/76587)
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### Author:  [@worldofpeace](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/worldofpeace)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2020, 3:09am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/13 "2020-02-02T03:09:35Z")
😄 posting on my own thread because I would like some help with this PR
[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/65133](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/65133)
building a vmWithBootloader has been broken for a while.
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### Author:  [@volth](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/volth)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/14 "2020-02-02T09:40:23Z")
[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/77783](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/77783)
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### Author:  [@volth](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/volth)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2020, 9:42am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/15 "2020-02-02T09:42:40Z")
[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/77673](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/77673)
too but other people concurrently do refactoring of patches so it might be difficult to keep it free of merge conflicts
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### Author:  [@Ma27](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/Ma27)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/16 "2020-02-02T11:31:12Z")
@FRidh should’ve followed this thread a bit more, but is it now too late for mass-rebuilds to get merged? (can’t promise it, but I’d at least try to get the glibc update mergable today or tomorrow).
EDIT: oh and don’t get me wrong, I don’t intend to “force” this to get into the release, I’m just asking myself whether it’s worth investing a certain amount of time today (and tomorrow) into this. If it’s too late and this just causes an additional burden for the release managers, we should delay this, of course 🙂
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### Author:  [@joko](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/joko)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/17 "2020-02-02T14:27:00Z")
[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/76723](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/76723)
Please also have a look on the Traefik v2 update.
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### Author:  [@FRidh](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/FRidh)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/18 "2020-02-02T14:41:11Z")
Branch-off is the 10th. Staging-next stabilization typically takes a week, although if there are no regressions its only 2 or 3 days. I’m about to start a new staging-next cycle.
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### Author:  [@FRidh](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/FRidh)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/19 "2020-02-02T14:44:24Z")
> [@worldofpeace](#):
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> python 3.8 ([https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/71220](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/71220))
This I reverted because there were too many regressions.
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### Author:  [@Frostman](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/Frostman)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-20-03-feature-freeze/5655/20 "2020-02-03T02:58:55Z")
IMO, would be great to include `asus-wmi-sensors` package [asus-wmi-sensors: init at 0.0.1 by voanhduy1512 · Pull Request #75885 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/75885) that gives sensors support for fresh Asus motherboards.
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