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We're happy to announce #Lix 2.95 "Kakigōri" is now available.

This version brings a wide range of improvements, including numerous bug fixes, reduced technical debt, and quality-of-life enhancements. You'll also notice better performance when working with certain large dependency graphs. Flakes and RPC are still key areas we are working on.

For the full list of changes, check out our blog post!
https://lix.systems/blog/2026-03-25-lix-2.95-release/

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Announcing Lix 2.95 “Kakigōri”

We at the Lix team are proud to announce our sixth major release, version 2.95 “Kakigōri”. This release focuses on long-awaited bugfixes, quality-of-life improvements, documentation, performance improvements and continued integration of Lix with the Cap’n’Proto remote procedure call runtime to replace the previous bespoke implementation.

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Val Packett 🧉

@lix_project cool cool cool! nsresourced and socket activation support is very nice to see.

The language deprecations list is kinda scary tho, does all/most of nixpkgs actually eval without tripping those? 0.o

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Lix Project 5d ago

@valpackett Thank you! @piegames and other Nixpkgs contributors did a bunch of work closely with nixpkgs to ensure that modern nixpkgs eval cleanly without it *AND* do not re-introduce those. Older (EOL) nixpkgs may require the deprecated feature flags to be passed.

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piegames 5d ago

@lix_project @valpackett I would have liked to offer the guarantee of "all Nixpkgs releases are completely free of warnings", but unfortunately some of these got introduced back into new code faster than I could keep up with, so it's been best-effort instead. To avoid unnecessary breakage, only the most obscure deprecated features are hard eval errors, the others are merely noisy warnings for now