[21.11-d89f18a1] The Journey Continues!

[nzbr]

This is the promised 21.11 release

It includes a change that allows for running code from foreign architectures by registering them through binfmt_misc, just like on native NixOS. This feature is enabled by default, but it may lead to WSLInterop (being able to run windows executables) breaking in other WSL distributions as a side effect. Should you experience issues with this, you can disable it by setting wsl.interop.register = false and removing all other binfmt registrations (if you have configured any). For more information on the underlying issue, see #64 and microsoft/WSL#8203

Should you encounter any problems, feel free to start a discussion or open an issue!

Updating

Flakes

Switch your nixpkgs ref to github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-21.11 and run nix flake update

Installer

Replace the content of /etc/nixos/nixos-wsl with the content of the source-tarball attached to this release

Legacy (pre-installer)

Assuming that you followed the update procedure in the last release, replace refs/tags/20.09-1c1f5649 with refs/tags/21.11-d89f18a1

Changelog

🛠️ General Changes

• NixOS 21.11 (NixOS 21.11 #65) @nzbr

🪲 Bugfixes

• binfmt / interop fixes (binfmt / interop fixes #64) @K900

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This discussion was created from the release [21.11-d89f18a1] The Journey Continues!.

[nzbr]

This release contains a known issue, that causes systemd to fail to start on first launch. Please restart the distribution with either wsl -t NixOS or wsl --shutdown.
For more information, see #67

[nzbr]

The issue has been resolved and a fixed binary has been attached to the release

[nabaco]

Any chance to add hashes of the files (MD5 or SHA)?

[nzbr]

Done!