doc/manual/source/release-notes/rl-2.13.md
The repeat and enforce-determinism options have been removed
since they had been broken under many circumstances for a long time.
You can now use flake references in the old command line interface, e.g.
# nix-build flake:nixpkgs -A hello
# nix-build -I nixpkgs=flake:github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-22.05 \
'<nixpkgs>' -A hello
# NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=flake:nixpkgs nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A hello
Instead of "antiquotation", the more common term string interpolation is now used consistently. Historical release notes were not changed.
Error traces have been reworked to provide detailed explanations and more accurate error locations. A short excerpt of the trace is now shown by default when an error occurs.
Allow explicitly selecting outputs in a store derivation installable, just like we can do with other sorts of installables. For example,
# nix build /nix/store/fpq78s2h8ffh66v2iy0q1838mhff06y8-glibc-2.33-78.drv^dev
now works just as
# nix build nixpkgs#glibc^dev
does already.
On Linux, nix develop now sets the
personality
for the development shell in the same way as the actual build of the
derivation. This makes shells for i686-linux derivations work
correctly on x86_64-linux.
You can now disable the global flake registry by setting the flake-registry
configuration option to an empty string. The same can be achieved at runtime with
--flake-registry "".