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2026 4

  1. One Billion Objects and No Database: Inside cache.nixos.org
  2. Documentation team funding
  3. NixOS 26.05 released
  4. Framework Partnership Announcement

2025 4

  1. NixOS 25.11 released
  2. NixOS 25.05 released
  3. NixOS Logo and Branding Update
  4. The NixOS Foundation Board Announced

2024 6

  1. NixOS 24.11 released
  2. Result for the Nix Steering Committee Election 2024
  3. Nix Steering Committee Election 2024
  4. Open Letter to the European Commission
  5. NixCon 2024 announced
  6. NixOS 24.05 released

2023 3

  1. NixOS 23.11 released
  2. NixOS 23.05 released
  3. Tales from Nixpkgs - PR

2022 10

  1. NixOS 22.11 released
  2. The Rise of Special Project "infra"
  3. Deploying a simple Jitsi Meet server with NixOS
  4. NixOS 22.05 released
  5. Nix 2.8.0 released
  6. Summer of Nix 2022 Announcement!
  7. Nix 2.7.0 released
  8. NixOS Community Survey 2022
  9. Summer of Nix 2021 report is out
  10. Nix 2.6.0 released

2021 11

  1. NixOS 21.11 released
  2. Perl Diving with Nix
  3. #05 - NixOS Weekly
  4. Hiring event on October 27th 2021
  5. #04 - NixOS Weekly
  6. Applications are closed
  7. NixOS 21.05 released
  8. #03 - NixOS Weekly
  9. #02 - NixOS Weekly
  10. #01 - NixOS Weekly
  11. #06 - NixOS Weekly

2020 11

  1. #09 - NixOS Weekly
  2. NixOS 20.09 released
  3. #08 - NixOS Weekly
  4. #07 - NixOS Weekly
  5. #06 - NixOS Weekly
  6. #05 - NixOS Weekly
  7. #04 - NixOS Weekly
  8. NixOS 20.03 released
  9. #03 - NixOS Weekly
  10. #02 - NixOS Weekly
  11. #01 - NixOS Weekly

2019 16

  1. #14 - Hercules CI launch, performance improvements in nixpkgs, single dependency kubernetes clusters
  2. #13 - NixOS 19.09 release, cache.nixos.org improvements, github actions for Nix, a number of talks
  3. NixOS 19.09 released
  4. #12 - Mobile NixOS, import-from-derivation, one-page introduction, runtime type-checker, a job
  5. #11 - Nixery, nixfmt and Cachix releases, NixCon 2019 tickets, a job and first impressions post
  6. #10 - Redox on NixOS, ad-hoc container images, nix-mode.el, static site deploys, a job
  7. #09 - autobake, setup.nix for Python, macOS stdenv updates, nixfmt, Elm tooling, gitignore and a job
  8. #08 - C++ packaging, NixCon 2019, job, cross-compile RPI, Haskell IDE Engine
  9. #07 - NixOS 19.03 release, IPFS, CI integrations and documentation feedback
  10. NixOS 19.03 released
  11. #06 - Lorri, tree parser and formatter, patchelf 0.10, NixML
  12. #05 - Cachix private caches, Termux, Artwork for 19.03, a rant
  13. Untitled
  14. #03 - Kubenix, kernel regressions and jobs
  15. #02 - 19.03 feature freeze, EU grants, reproducibility, Nix in Debian
  16. #01 - TerraNix, Debian packaging, elm2nix, RaspberryPi 3+

2018 21

  1. #14 - Reproducible builds summit, Gnome 3.30, RFC process, linter, Arion
  2. #13 - Cross compilation for Go and Rust, home-manager email support
  3. #12 - NixCon 2018 videos, Eris, NixDoc, Auto patching and jobs
  4. #11 - NixOS 18.09 release, Fastly CDN for cache, your first Hydra
  5. NixOS 18.09 released
  6. Fastly supports NixOS
  7. #10 - AArch64 builders, NixOps alternative, optimised docker layers, Hercules CI
  8. #09 - NixCon 2018 program, macOS 10.14 Mojave support, Haskell and Python packaging tips
  9. #08 - Nix 2.1, NixOS 18.09 beta, new installer bootloader
  10. Nix 2.1 released
  11. #07 - NixOS in production, nix-devel is now Discourse
  12. #06 - Formalizing review workflow, OfBorg update, String Context explanation
  13. NixOS Discourse forum
  14. #05 - NixOS 18.09 preparations, incremental builds and other tooling
  15. #04 - NixCon2018, Nix Core Team, binary cache improvements
  16. NixCon 2018
  17. NixOS 18.03 released
  18. #03 - A tree with strong roots \...
  19. Nix 2.0 released
  20. #02 - Life before death, strength before weakness, \...
  21. #01 - Phoenixes burst into flame \...

2017 12

  1. NixOS 17.09 released
  2. Nix-dev mailing list moved
  3. NixCon 2017
  4. #08 - Not all those who wander are lost
  5. #07 - You have one hell of a Linux system here
  6. #06 - I never wished a man dead
  7. #05 - Tonight We Ride
  8. NixOS 17.03 released
  9. #04 - Everything not saved will be lost
  10. #03 - Better Late Than Never
  11. #02 - Here we go
  12. #01 - We need to start somewhere

2016 4

  1. NixOS 16.09 released
  2. NixOps 1.4 released
  3. NixOS 16.03 released
  4. Nix 1.11 released

2015 7

  1. NixOS 15.09 released
  2. Nix 1.10 released
  3. NixCon 2015
  4. NixOS Foundation
  5. Nix 1.9 released
  6. NixOS 14.12 released
  7. Nix 1.8 released

2014 7

  1. NixOS sprint in Ljubljana
  2. NixOS 14.04 released
  3. NixOps 1.2 released
  4. Nix 1.7 released
  5. Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL
  6. FOSDEM talks
  7. Stdenv updates branch merged into master

2013 18

  1. NixOS 13.10 released
  2. Nix 1.6.1 released
  3. NixOS sources merged into Nixpkgs
  4. NixOps 1.1.1 released
  5. Nix 1.6 released
  6. NixOps 1.1 released
  7. NixOS sprint in Slovenia
  8. NixOps 1.0.1 released
  9. NixOS presentation at EuroPython
  10. NixOps 1.0 released
  11. Nix 1.5.3 released
  12. PhD thesis: A Reference Architecture for Distributed Software Deployment
  13. Nix 1.5.2 released
  14. Nix 1.5.1 released
  15. Nix 1.4 released
  16. NixOS switched to systemd
  17. Nix 1.3 released
  18. Nix 1.2 released

2012 3

  1. Nix 1.1 released
  2. Binary Nix tarballs available
  3. Nix 1.0 released

2011 5

  1. PatchELF 0.6 released
  2. Hydra talk at Inria
  3. Moving to GitHub
  4. Nix-dev mailing list moved
  5. FOSDEM talk about NixOS

2010 6

  1. ISSRE paper on NixOS-based system testing
  2. Xfce in NixOS
  3. Nix 0.16 released
  4. NixOS talk at LSM
  5. Nix 0.15 released
  6. Nix 0.14 released

2009 8

  1. Nix logo
  2. Nix 0.13 released
  3. LWN.net article on NixOS
  4. Nixpkgs 0.12 released
  5. OpenOffice.org 3 in Nixpkgs
  6. KDE 4.2 in Nixpkgs/NixOS
  7. Hydra 2009
  8. Linux.com article about Nix

2008 9

  1. Nix 0.12 released
  2. DisNix paper accepted at HotSWUp
  3. NixOS paper accepted at ICFP!
  4. Website back up
  5. Website / SVN repositories moved
  6. LDTA 2008 paper
  7. Jacquard grant proposal accepted!
  8. New NixOS ISOs
  9. Nix 0.11 released

2007 10

  1. Nixpkgs 0.11 released
  2. OpenOffice in Nixpkgs
  3. NixOS progress report
  4. Commits mailing list
  5. HotOS paper on NixOS
  6. NixOS progress report
  7. NixOS progress report
  8. NixOS manual
  9. NixOS for x86_64
  10. New build farm hardware at TUD

2006 5

  1. Nixpkgs 0.10 released
  2. Nix 0.10.1 released
  3. Nix 0.10 released
  4. Nixpkgs 0.9 released
  5. PhD thesis defended

2005 5

  1. Nix 0.9.2 released
  2. Nix 0.9 released
  3. Secure sharing paper accepted for ASE 2005
  4. Service deployment paper accepted for SCM-12
  5. Patching paper accepted for CBSE 2005

2004 1

  1. Paper “Imposing a Memory Management Discipline on Software Deployment” accepted for presentation at ICSE 2004!