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2026 35

  1. Changelog: an important security fix, nix top, faster garbage collection, parallel instantiation, and more
  2. Emergency Legacy Extension now available for NixOS 25.05
  3. Changelog: security fixes, OpenTelemetry tracing, baked flakes, fiber-based parallel evaluation, and more
  4. Native Linux Builder is now generally available
  5. OpenTelemetry tracing for Determinate Nix
  6. Introducing Determinate Secure Packages LTS
  7. FlakeHub now supports GitHub Enterprise Managed Users
  8. A window into our security processes: introducing the Determinate Secure Packages CVE Remediation Dashboard
  9. Changelog: a new upstream base, GC roots for nix eval, and a faster nix copy
  10. The EU Cyber Resilience Act is coming, and Determinate is the missing link in your supply chain
  11. Changelog: faster evaluation and FedRAMP cache keys
  12. Introducing FlakeAudit, a CLI for evaluating CycloneDX SBOMs against custom policies
  13. Changelog: FlakeHub Cache edge routing and reliability improvements
  14. Changelog: Determinate Nix 3.21.7
  15. FlakeHub now has FedRAMP High Authorization
  16. An interface change for flake schemas
  17. Introducing Nixpkgs cooldowns
  18. Announcing Determinate Secure Packages 26.05
  19. Introducing FlakeBOM, a CLI for generating SBOMs from Nix flakes
  20. Finally, a secure Nixpkgs for the enterprise: an update on Determinate Secure Packages
  21. Nix is set to revolutionize the software supply chain
  22. Changelog: Determinate Nix 3.21.0
  23. Changelog: Determinate Nix 3.20.0 (and a few others)
  24. Sentry crash reports for Determinate Nix
  25. Announcing Determinate Secure Packages 25.11
  26. The Nix moment
  27. Changelog: Determinate Nix 3.17.3
  28. Support for AWS GovCloud and European Sovereign Cloud
  29. Extensible flake outputs with flake schemas
  30. A new chapter for the Nix language, courtesy of WebAssembly
  31. Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas
  32. Changelog: Google Cloud Platform auth, parallel eval unleashed, and more
  33. Changelog: a more powerful nix-darwin module and more
  34. Introducing Determinate Secure Packages
  35. Changelog: new year, new Determinate Nix

2025 34

  1. Changelog: a new command for visualizing active Nix builds and much more
  2. Changelog: a whole bevy of small improvements for Determinate Nix
  3. Nix flakes explained: what they solve, why they matter, and the future
  4. Changelog: introducing `nix nario`
  5. Determinate Nix: the recent past and the shining future
  6. Dropping upstream Nix from Determinate Nix Installer
  7. Parallel evaluation comes to Determinate Nix
  8. Changelog: build-time flake inputs and unauthenticated upgrades
  9. Changelog: Determinate now has a nix-darwin module, plus loads of performance perks
  10. Changelog: a native Linux builder for macOS
  11. Changelog: Determinate Nix 3.8.1 with important security updates
  12. Changelog: a faster `nix flake check`, improved flake locks, and lazy trees rolled out to 20% of users
  13. Changelog: faster CI, deep flake overrides, and a better `nix store delete` in Determinate Nix 3.7.0
  14. Changelog: lazy trees and security improvements
  15. FlakeHub now supports Semaphore CI
  16. Changelog: macOS Tahoe, lazy trees, and docs in Determinate Nix 3.6.6
  17. Bringing back the Magic Nix Cache Action
  18. Changelog: docs, diagnostics, and resilience improvements
  19. Changelog: improved support for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners
  20. Determinate Nix Action
  21. Changelog: introducing lazy trees
  22. Changelog: deprecating channels and indirect flake references
  23. Changelog: JSON logging, a new experience around hash mismatches, and more
  24. Best practices for Nix at work
  25. Determinate Nix 3.0
  26. Fetch artifacts directly from FlakeHub Cache using `fh fetch`
  27. Introducing Determinate AMIs for NixOS
  28. Changelog: version synchronization to 0.37.1
  29. Determinate is now compatible with nix-darwin
  30. Changelog: improved nix-darwin support for Determinate!
  31. Improved evaluation times with pre-resolved Nix store paths
  32. Supercharging Nix deployments with FlakeHub Cache
  33. End of life for the free tier of the Magic Nix Cache
  34. Changelog: customer binding, nix.conf, and yanked Nix 2.25.4

2024 13

  1. Determinate Nix now supports migrating from other caches
  2. The future of software is Nix
  3. Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes
  4. Announcing Determinate Nix
  5. Discontinuing support for macOS Monterey
  6. Fully automated Nix installation for macOS on AWS EC2
  7. Solving enterprise TLS certificates for Nix on macOS
  8. Prepare Nix for macOS Sequoia
  9. Discontinuing support for i686-linux in the Determinate Nix Installer
  10. Parallel Nix evaluation
  11. Nix as a WebAssembly build tool
  12. On community in Nix
  13. Introducing FlakeHub Cache

2023 20

  1. KVM on GitHub Actions
  2. A graphical installer for Nix
  3. Lessons from 1 million Nix installs
  4. Nix Survival Mode: sheltering Nix from macOS upgrades
  5. FlakeHub updates: lightning-fast mirroring and webhook integrations
  6. Creating and modifying flakes using the FlakeHub CLI
  7. Experimental does not mean unstable
  8. `fh`: the CLI for FlakeHub
  9. Flake schemas: making flake outputs extensible
  10. Introducing FlakeHub
  11. Instrumenting Axum projects
  12. Introducing the Magic Nix Cache
  13. Introducing the Nix Flake Checker
  14. Declarative GNOME configuration with NixOS
  15. Packaging Open Policy Agent policies with Nix
  16. Extending NixOS configurations
  17. Nuenv: an experimental Nushell environment for Nix
  18. Moving stuff around with Nix
  19. Introducing the Determinate Nix Installer
  20. Introducing Zero to Nix

2022 10

  1. Nix on the Steam Deck
  2. Deploying Nix-built containers to Kubernetes
  3. Streamline your GitHub Actions dependencies using Nix
  4. Make your QEMU 10 times faster with this one weird trick
  5. Using Nix to run software with no installation steps
  6. An invitation to Rust maintainers
  7. Effortless dev environments with Nix and direnv
  8. Building a highly optimized home environment with Nix
  9. Introducing Riff
  10. We want to make Nix better

2021 2

  1. How to use Hydra as your deployment source of truth
  2. Announcing: Terraform Provider Hydra