CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

[0.2.21] 2022-05-06

Added

• Fetch submodules (if supported, otherwise warn)

[0.2.20] 2022-04-04

Added

• Add ability to pass submodules to builtins.fetchGit

Changed

• Remove warnings about GITHUB_INSECURE and GITHUB_PATH
• Support newer GHC
• Update optparse-applicative and aeson (aeson 2)
• Update nixpkgs and track master
• Speed up initialization (skip nix-prefetch-url)
• Bunch of documentation fixes
• Fix badges and GitHub Actions

[0.2.19] 2021-01-05

Added

• There is a new flag --no-colors for avoiding colors in the output

Changed

• GITHUB_PATH was renamed to NIV_GITHUB_PATH #280
• GITHUB_INSECURE was renamed to NIV_GITHUB_INSECURE #280
• If -T is provided on the command line for niv add it will be respected and no guessing from the url is done.
• type attribute is now respected.
• If an url template is updated, type needs to be adjusted manuall as it is not guessed from the new url template.

[0.2.17] 2020-09-08

Added

• There is a new flag -r/--rev for specifying a revision during update and add
• There is a new flag --version that instructs niv to show its version and exit

Changed

• The derivation name of sources is sanitized
• The ref field was deprecated in favor of branch and tag in git sources

[0.2.16] 2020-08-14

Changed

• The sources.nix can now be imported when there's no local sources.json

[0.2.15] 2020-08-13

Added

• The sources can be overriden with NIV_OVERRIDE_<source name>

Changed

• When nix-prefetch-url fails the command is shown
• IO operations during update are cached

[0.2.14] 2020-07-15

Added

• niv add local for local sources.
• Custom nixpkgs can be specified during init.

Changed

• The derivation name for package foo is now foo-src.
• The extension .tgz is considered as .tar.gz.
• The default nixpkgs is release-20.03.
• Nixpkgs is now pulled from NixOS/nixpkgs, not from channels.

Removed

• The types builtin-tarbal and builtin-url were removed.

[0.2.13] 2020-02-02

Added

• niv modify -n NAME to rename a package

Changed

• README mentions the modify command
• niv is not shipped with the niv-test executable anymore
• cabal-upload was simplified

[0.2.12] 2020-01-17

Added

• Examples for building C++ libraries with niv
• Documentation for using niv from nixpkgs

Changed

• Only depend on executables in default.nix (-A niv) for smaller closure size
• Ensure <nixpkgs> is not evaluated in sources.nix unless necessary

[0.2.11] 2020-01-07

Changed

• Users can set custom pkgs when importing sources.nix

[0.2.10] 2020-01-06

Changed

• The bundled nix/sources.nix is formatted with nixpkgs-fmt

[0.2.9] 2019-12-17

Changed

• niv init uses nixpkgs 19.09

[0.2.8] 2019-12-09

Changed

• Fixed message in niv init with custom sources.json

[0.2.7] 2019-12-08

Added

• Support for custom path sources.json with --sources-json

[0.2.6] 2019-12-05

Changed

• Fix niv update with git specs

[0.2.5] 2019-12-01

Changed

• Fix niv show adding extra newlines

[0.2.4] 2019-12-01

Added

• Experimental support for add subcommands, in particular niv add git

Changed

• Various error message fixes

[0.2.3] 2019-11-28

Added

• A new CLI option (-s) reads attributes as raw strings.

Changed

• The attribute CLI option (-a) now allows JSON value.
• Some typos were fixed.
• A deprecation warning was added for builtin-tarball.

[0.2.2] 2019-11-27

Added

• The sources.nix are now versioned.
• Show the help when no arguments are provided.

Changed

• The show command was prettified.