Announcing Lix 2.95 “Kakigōri”

Summary

We at the Lix team are proud to announce our sixth major release, version 2.95 “Kakigōri”.This release focuses on long-awaited bugfixes, quality-of-life improvements, documentation, performance improvements and continued integration of Lix with the Cap’n’Proto remote procedure call runtime to replace the previous bespoke implementation.Kakigōri is a Japanese shaved ice dessert flavored with syrup and a sweetener, often condensed milk.Lix is a Nix implementation focused on reliability, predictability, friendliness, developed by a community of people from around the world. We have long term plans to incrementally evolve Nix to work in more places, to make it more reliable and secure, and to update the language and semantics to correct past mistakes and reduce errors, all the while providing an amazing tooling experience.Upgrading from CppNix or previous Lix versionsWARNING: We do not recommend to use nix upgrade-nix, please follow the instructions in https://lix.systems/install/ with the Lix’s upgrade shell script.The upgrade procedure depends on how you installed Lix or CppNix, and is fully described in the Lix installation guide.If you are using Lix from nixpkgs on NixOS, you just need to upgrade your nixpkgs once the upgrade pull request has passed through the build farm into your channel; no other action is required.If you want to help us test the next version of Lix, consider running main by following the beta guide.ChangesLix 2.95 builds on the work from Lix 2.94 in improving the daemon and language to make room for future evolution.In this release Lix has fixed a number of long-running bugs, and we intend to continue this trend. We aim to have only very few longstanding bugs remaining by the time we hit Lix 3.0.Here is a tasting menu of changes in Lix 2.95 that we think are the most exciting. This is by no means a complete list, otherwise this post would be huge. If you’re interested in the full list, please refer to the release notes.News from RPCRPC work is o...