NixOS 23.05 released

[Posted June 1, 2023 by jake]

A new version of NixOS, which is a Linux distribution based on the Nix package manager, has been released: NixOS 23.05 is now available. The release notes list numerous updates, including Nix 2.13, Linux 6.1, glibc 2.37, Cinnamon 5.6, GNOME 44, and KDE Plasma 5.27.

The 23.05 release was made possible due to the efforts of 1867 contributors, who authored 36566 commits since the previous release. Our thanks go the contributors who also take care of the continued stability and security of our stable release.
NixOS is already known as the most up to date distribution while also being the distribution with the most packages. This release saw 16240 new packages and 13524 updated packages in Nixpkgs. We also removed 13466 packages in an effort to keep the package set maintainable and secure. In addition to packages the NixOS distribution also features modules and tests that make it what it is. This release brought 282 new modules and removed 183. In that process we added 2882 options and removed 728.