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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-release-16.09">
<title>Release 16.09 (“Flounder”, 2016/09/??)</title>
<para>In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
has the following highlights: </para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>PXE "netboot" media has landed in <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14740" />.
See <xref linkend="sec-booting-from-pxe" /> for documentation.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Xorg-server-1.18.*. If you choose <literal>"ati_unfree"</literal> driver,
1.17.* is still used due to ABI incompatibility.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The following new services were added since the last release:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><literal>(this will get automatically generated at release time)</literal></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
following incompatible changes:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Shell aliases for systemd sub-commands
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/15598">were dropped</link>:
<command>start</command>, <command>stop</command>,
<command>restart</command>, <command>status</command>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Redis now binds to 127.0.0.1 only instead of listening to all network interfaces. This is the default
behavior of Redis 3.2</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Gitlab's maintainence script gitlab-runner was removed and split up into the more clearer
gitlab-run and gitlab-rake scripts because gitlab-runner is a component of Gitlab CI.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Other notable improvements:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Revamped grsecurity/PaX support. There is now only a single
general-purpose distribution kernel and the configuration interface has been
streamlined. Desktop users should be able to simply set
<programlisting>security.grsecurity.enable = true</programlisting> to get
a reasonably secure system without having to sacrifice too much
functionality. See <xref linkend="sec-grsecurity" /> for documentation
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
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