[2405.5.4] Upset Uakari

[nzbr]

Patch Notes

Besides NixOS 24.05, this release brings support for using Nvidia GPUs through the WSL2 integration of their Windows driver.

It will also be the first release to come with Launcher binaries attached. If you want to give that a try, download NixOS-WSL-Launcher.zip and extract it. Running .\NixOS.exe --help will list the things it is capable of so far. Please report any bugs you encounter. The launcher will be used for distributing NixOS-WSL through additional channels like scoop and eventually the Microsoft Store in the future.

syschdemd (the previous method for running systemd in WSL before Microsoft supported that directly) has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed completely with the 24.11 release. If you have explicitly disabled native systemd in your config, please consider enabling it now.

Updating

Channels

1. Switch your nixpkgs channel to 24.05
   • sudo nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-24.05 nixos
2. Update your channels
   • sudo nix-channel --update
3. Rebuild your system
   • sudo nixos-rebuild switch

Flakes

If you're using flakes instead of channels, update your nixpkgs input to 24.05, run nix flake update and rebuild your system.

Changelog

🛠️ General Changes

• Update nixpkgs to nixos-24.05 (Update nixpkgs to nixos-24.05 #479) @renovate
• Deprectate syschdemd (Deprectate syschdemd #473) @nzbr

🚀 Features

• Create /run/booted-system symlink (Create /run/booted-system symlink #325) @SuperSandro2000
• Add shell-wrapper to inject env variables into non-login shells (Add shell-wrapper to inject env variables into non-login shells #452) @nzbr
• Add option to disable error about ldconfig (Add option to disable error about ldconfig #443) @SuperSandro2000
• usbip: make more reliable by using default route (usbip: make more reliable by using default route #444) @SuperSandro2000
• modules/build-tarball: add e2fsprogs dependency (for chattr), use pigz (modules/build-tarball: add e2fsprogs dependency (for chattr), use pigz #385) @K900
• feat: add option to disable wslg x11 mount (feat: add option to disable wslg x11 mount #371) @PhilippHeuer
• wsl-distro: introduce wsl.useWindowsDriver option (wsl-distro: introduce wsl.useWindowsDriver option #339) @Atry

🪲 Bugfixes

• fix: make wrapper not crash if logger setup fails (fix: make wrapper not crash if logger setup fails #496) @nzbr
• fix(shell-wrapper): login shell and user systemd (fix(shell-wrapper): login shell and user systemd #464) @nzbr
• utils/shell-wrapper: hardcode paths to the right sh/env executables (utils/shell-wrapper: hardcode paths to the right sh/env executables #459) @K900
• fix: Don't mask resolved systemd unit (fix: Don't mask resolved systemd unit  #455) @SuperSandro2000
• fix: prevent systemd from hiding wayland socket (fix: prevent systemd from hiding wayland socket #450) @nzbr
• fix: /tmp/.X11-unix (fix: /tmp/.X11-unix #432) @nzbr
• fix: bind mount X11 socket instead of symlinking (fix: bind mount X11 socket instead of symlinking #420) @nzbr
• fix: set state version when building tarballs (fix: set state version when building tarballs #419) @nzbr
• fix: Create directory for symlink tree (fix: Create directory for symlink tree #392) @SuperSandro2000
• fix: Hard-code file names when making symbolic links for drivers (fix: Hard-code file names when making symbolic links for drivers #383) @Atry
• fix: start menu launchers rsync of directory symlinks (fix: start menu launchers rsync of directory symlinks #380) @terlar
• fix: symlink creation of per-user apps/icons folder (fix: symlink creation of per-user apps/icons folder #368) @mprasil

🧪 Tests

• test: Make tests work on Windows with native systemd (Enable tests on Windows #430 test: Make tests work on Windows with native systemd #466) @JojOatXGME @nzbr

📖 Documentation

• More documentation (More documentation #406) @nzbr
• Add instructions to enable WSL 2 (Add instructions to enable WSL 2 #458) @andoriyu
• Add example flake configuration (Add example flake configuration #446) @Prince213
• Update README.md - use %userprofile% instead of the cwd (Update README.md - use %userprofile% instead of the cwd #438) @noamraph

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[Nicknamely]

NixOS-WSL-Launcher.msixbundle requires a certificate just like ArchWSL