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NixOS 21.05 released!

Jonathan Ringer, release manager, announces NixOS 21.05 release with 1745 contributors in 33474 commits.
How we went from supporting 50 languages to all of them

Replit replaces Docker with Nix and drastically improves support for languages.
Peter Simons has retired from Haskell maintenance in Nixpkgs

Please thank him for all his hard work!
The Changelog #437

Domen Kožar introduces the Nix ecosystem.
Compositional podcast

Nix in Production with Domen Kožar
NixNG, a late sibling distribution to NixOS, without systemd!

NixNG is a proof-of-concept distribution which works very similarly to NixOS, but aims to run well in containers and also smells more BSD-esque. Currently, it uses runit instead of systemd, but we’re open to multi-init support and also to our own init system.
Nix 🖤 macOS May Update

Introduction to the Nix language for OO-Programmers
CS SYD - The ci.nix pattern
Data Science with Nix: Parameter Sweeps
Nix-ifying Rust projects

A template Nix setup for new Rust projects.
Nix syntax basics

Everything that you need to read, write and understand Nix expressions.
Nix Cargo integration

Utility to easily integrate Cargo projects with Nix. Tries to handle (almost) everything for you and enables configuration from Cargo.toml files.
Rust Nix templater

Utility to set up a template that uses nix-cargo-integration.
flake-utils-plus

Use Nix flakes without any fluff! (extension of flake-utils)
Practical Nix Flakes

Learn about Nix, Nix flakes, and how to use Nix flakes to build applications in various languages.
A test framework for the Nix process management framework

With the Nix process management framework you can write high-level deployment specifications of running processes, that can be managed with a variety of process managers (e.g. systemd, supervisord, launchd, s6-rc). Furthermore, you can construct multiple instances of the same processes and deploy them as an unprivileged user. The testing framework allows you to validate a service under all these conditions.
Tutorial: Installing NixOS on a Raspberry Pi
Tutorial: Integration testing using virtual machines (VMs)
My Homelab Build
Writing a “Hello World” RiscV Kernel with Nix in Rust

Use Nix Flakes to build and run a 64 bit RiscV Kernel written in Rust.

This work would not be possible without the many contributions of the community.

You can help too! Create or comment on the pull request for the next edition or look at the issue tracker to add other improvements.