Pre-release of our upcoming 0.9.0 release, including improvements to Devbox profile generation, better support for overriding insecure packages, and more
Features
Improved Nix Profile Generation
We've improved how Devbox creates Nix Profiles for your development shells to make it more reliable and deterministic. In addition to simplifying our profile generation code, this should ensure that changes to your installed packages are more reliably reflected in your Nix Shell.
--allow-insecure Improvements
You can now pass a list of packages to the --allow-insecure flag. This is useful when you need to allow a list of insecure dependencies for a package
For example: installing sublime4 will fail because openssl-1.1.1w is marked insecure in Nixpkgs. To override the warning and install openssl, you can run devbox add sublime4 --allow-insecure=openssl-1.1.1w:
Fish init_hook Improvements
Init Hooks are now sourced correctly when run in Fish shell, which should avoid script parsing errors on starting the shell.
How to Install
To opt in to the pre-release, export DEVBOX_USE_VERSION=0.9.0-pre in your shell. We recommend adding this to your shellrc file if you plan to test the pre-release long term.
To revert to the last released version, unset the DEVBOX_USE_VERSION environment variable
Changelog
- 7796d01 [fish] use fish hooks file for devbox.EnvExports (used in shellenv) (#1756)
- 5585d21 [vscode-exntension] extension version 0.1.4 changes (#1757)
- 414c517 [add] migrate allow_insecure from lockfile to config (#1754)
- 3697cb9 [devbox add] --allow-insecure should handle multiple, user-specified packages (#1749)
- 3ac7be0 [fish] use exit instead of return in init-hook recursion guard (#1755)
- f4a8c74 Update Docs: direnv, gen readme, FAQs (#1751)
- 2fee55b [vscode-extension] Logging events in logfile (#1745)
- 1732602 [easy] remove extraneous debugging Printf from devbox.installNixPackagesToStore (#1750)