News

• NixOS 19.03 will leverage multiple cores automatically by default for builds and Nix 2.2 will have the sandbox enabled by default on Linux

• Deploy a C++ web app on Heroku using Docker and Nix

• Meson 0.48 landed in staging again

• Declarative client mail configuration

In the past few months, some work went into home-manager to abstract mail configuration and generate configs for a variety of client-side software. Declare your username/password once and generate configs for afew/alot/astroid/mbsync/offlineimap.

• Go cross-compilation landed in staging

This includes support for Cgo and buildGoPackage. Rust cross-compilation could follow soon.

• RFC on improving RFC process

• Released cachix 0.1.3

• Call for new stickers design for events

• OfBorg now uses checks for build status reports, greatly reducing Nixpkgs reviewers' email load.

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