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Declarative builds and deployments

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2026

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  • Remove the Build Hook Mechanism, Store Extensions

    Accepted project · by Amrit Amber

    The Nix build hook mechanism has been marked for removal since 2017, but it still fills an important gap in Nix's distributed build architecture. In...

  • Improve CVE - Derivation Matching Accuracy, Data Integrity, and Observability in the Nixpkgs Tracker

    Accepted project · by Darshan Thakare

    This project focuses on improving the accuracy, reliability, and observability of the Nixpkgs Security Tracker by addressing key limitations in its...

  • NixOS vars

    Accepted project · by prescientmoon

    NixOS vars allow declaring secrets that live inside (or outside) the nix store in a declarative manner. Vars already have a WIP implementation over...

  • Enrich Nixpkgs with correct PURLs for accurate SBOMs

    Accepted project · by Tanishq Palandurkar

    NixOS is uniquely positioned to generate accurate, reproducible Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) from its declarative build graph, yet current...

2024

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  • Nix Internals: Use std::filesystem::path for Path

    Accepted project · by siddhantCodes

    This document presents the framework for a GSOC'24 project aimed at improving Nix internals by leveraging std::filesystem where applicable,...

  • Nixpkgs networking library

    Accepted project · by Yurii Shymon

    As part of GSoC campaign, I'd like to add a sort of networking library to nixpkgs. Most general-purpose programming languages support network...

  • evanix: Nix Build Scheduler

    Accepted project · by Sinan Mohd

    In evanix we explored making the scheduling of Nix builds more controllable. in particular, we look into implementing constraints such as –max-builds...