jetify-com/devbox 0.4.3 on GitHub

What's New

Devbox is now powered by Nix Flakes

Flakes are a new feature in the Nix Language that allows us to package software and create dev shells in a fully reproducible way. This has significant benefits for our ability to upgrade and cache evaluation results.
Immediate benefit to users should be faster warm start times for Devbox Shell. We’ve seen some data that Devbox can start up a shell 70% faster after the first installation.
Learn more by reading our blog: Devbox 0.4.3: Powered by Flakes

Declare environment variables in devbox.json.

Developers can now declare environment variables in their devbox.json under the env object. For example, you can set variable $FOO to bar as follows:

{
    "packages": [
        "python310"
    ],
    "env": {
        "FOO": "bar"
    },
    "shell": {
        "init_hook": null,
    "nixpkgs": {
        "commit": "..."
    }
}

This lets developers better organize their devbox.json, and avoid lengthy export statements in their init_hook
For more details, check out our Docs

Bug Fixes in this Release

Fixes a bug where Fish shell would fail to inherit host environment variables
Fixed a bug where devbox shellenv was prepending an incorrect path.
Fixed a bug that could mangle a user’s PS1 when evaluating devbox shellenv
Fixed bugs in generated devcontainer.json, which would include some extensions multiple times

Special thanks to:

@hezhizhen for contributing 4 PRs to this release
@worldofgeese for reporting issues with devcontainer generation
@PandaRyshan for reporting issues with Fish Shell

What's Changed

Add revive linter and enable indent-error-flow rule by @hezhizhen in #651
[flakes] enable featureflag by @savil in #716
[Devcontainer] Fixed path for python interpreter in devcontainer.json by @mohsenari in #715
[vscode extension] Fixed autorun shell on new terminal open bug by @mohsenari in #717
[devcontainer] Fixed bug on multiple python extensions listed in devcontainer by @mohsenari in #718
Fix fish shell after #706 by @ipince in #721
Replace os.Setenv with t.Setenv in tests by @hezhizhen in #720
Enable the Env in Config Feature by @Lagoja in #722
[easy][code cleanup] move packages specific functions to impl/packages.go by @savil in #723
[easy][cleanup] move nix.DevboxShell to impl.DevboxShell by @savil in #724
[CICD] auto-nix-install: export env-var and add DEVBOX_DEBUG=1 by @savil in #727
Clean up error handling and docs by @hezhizhen in #726
[cicd] auto-nix-install: set github access token by @savil in #728
Remove obsolete code after unified env by @ipince in #729
Remove dead code by @ipince in #732
Shellenv prepends to original path, not current path by @ipince in #730
plansdk: get cloud cache from environment by @gcurtis in #734
Escape env vars in shellenv the same way as in shellrc by @ipince in #731
Plugin Contributing Guide by @Lagoja in #611
Remove more dead code by @ipince in #735
[xdg]: unexport xxxDir() and use xxxSubpath() only by @hezhizhen in #733
Fix build: only go:embed .json files in plugins dir by @ipince in #743
Fix quickstart button to link to tutorial by @Lagoja in #737
Include plugin subdirs by @ipince in #746
[config] early return if cannot find GlobalDataPath by @savil in #739
[flakes] Assign higher priority to later packages to resolve conflicting packages error by @savil in #738
Update and activate stale-issue-cleanup by @Lagoja in #665
nix,impl: avoid modifying flake.nix; don't use --impure by @gcurtis in #749
ci: enable DEVBOX_DEBUG for all test jobs by @gcurtis in #751
testscripts: enable DEVBOX_DEBUG by @gcurtis in #752
[allow unfree] add --impure and env-var to nix profile commands by @savil in #753
all: add tracing by @gcurtis in #750

Full Changelog: 0.4.2...0.4.3