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 <title>Unstable</title>
 
+<para>In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
+has the following highlights:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>You can now pin a specific version of NixOS in your <filename>configuration.nix</filename>
+    by setting:
+
+<programlisting>
+nixos.path = ./nixpkgs-unstable-2015-12-06/nixos;
+</programlisting>
+
+    This will make NixOS re-evaluate your configuration with the modules of
+    the specified NixOS version at the given path.  For more details, see
+    <xref linkend="module-misc-nixos" /></para>
+  </listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
 <para>When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
 following incompatible changes:</para>