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Nix

Category
Infrastructure and DevOps
Latest
2.35.4
Released
Oct 23, 2026
Docs outline
13 sections

Official docs outline

nixos.org
  1. Introduction

    Purely functional package management and reproducibility.

  2. The Nix Language

    Expressions, functions, attribute sets, laziness and builtins.

  3. The Nix Store

    Content-addressed store paths, closures and the store model.

  4. Derivations

    Build recipes, inputs and outputs.

  5. Profiles

    User environments and generations.

  6. Garbage Collection

    Collecting unreferenced store paths and GC roots.

  7. Binary Cache

    Substituters and caching builds.

  8. Flakes

    Flake inputs, outputs, and lock files.

  9. Development Shells

    nix develop, nix-shell and reproducible dev environments.

  10. Distributed Builds

    Remote builders.

  11. Nixpkgs Manual

    stdenv, overlays and package definitions.

  12. NixOS Manual

    Declarative system configuration with modules.

  13. Command Reference

    Nix CLI commands.

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Versions and support

6 release lines
LineReleasedLatestSupport
2.35 Jul 13, 2026 2.35.4 Supported
2.34 Feb 27, 2026 2.34.9 Ended Jul 13, 2026
2.33 Dec 10, 2025 2.33.6 Ended Feb 27, 2026
2.32 Oct 7, 2025 2.32.8 Ended Dec 10, 2025
2.31 Aug 25, 2025 2.31.6 Ended Oct 7, 2025
2.30 Jul 7, 2025 2.30.6 Ended Aug 25, 2025

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