0.4.3

What's New

Devbox is now powered by Nix Flakes

• Flakes are a new feature in the Nix Language that allows us to package software and create dev shells in a fully reproducible way. This has significant benefits for our ability to upgrade and cache evaluation results.
• Immediate benefit to users should be faster warm start times for Devbox Shell. We’ve seen some data that Devbox can start up a shell 70% faster after the first installation.
• Learn more by reading our blog: Devbox 0.4.3: Powered by Flakes

Declare environment variables in devbox.json.

• Developers can now declare environment variables in their devbox.json under the env object. For example, you can set variable $FOO to bar as follows:

  {
      "packages": [
          "python310"
      ],
      "env": {
          "FOO": "bar"
      },
      "shell": {
          "init_hook": null,
      "nixpkgs": {
          "commit": "..."
      }
  }

• This lets developers better organize their devbox.json, and avoid lengthy export statements in their init_hook
• For more details, check out our Docs

Bug Fixes in this Release

• Fixes a bug where Fish shell would fail to inherit host environment variables
• Fixed a bug where devbox shellenv was prepending an incorrect path.
• Fixed a bug that could mangle a user’s PS1 when evaluating devbox shellenv
• Fixed bugs in generated devcontainer.json, which would include some extensions multiple times

Special thanks to:

• @hezhizhen for contributing 4 PRs to this release
• @worldofgeese for reporting issues with devcontainer generation
• @PandaRyshan for reporting issues with Fish Shell

What's Changed

• Add revive linter and enable indent-error-flow rule by @hezhizhen in #651
• [flakes] enable featureflag by @savil in #716
• [Devcontainer] Fixed path for python interpreter in devcontainer.json by @mohsenari in #715
• [vscode extension] Fixed autorun shell on new terminal open bug by @mohsenari in #717
• [devcontainer] Fixed bug on multiple python extensions listed in devcontainer by @mohsenari in #718
• Fix fish shell after #706 by @ipince in #721
• Replace os.Setenv with t.Setenv in tests by @hezhizhen in #720
• Enable the Env in Config Feature by @Lagoja in #722
• [easy][code cleanup] move packages specific functions to impl/packages.go by @savil in #723
• [easy][cleanup] move nix.DevboxShell to impl.DevboxShell by @savil in #724
• [CICD] auto-nix-install: export env-var and add DEVBOX_DEBUG=1 by @savil in #727
• Clean up error handling and docs by @hezhizhen in #726
• [cicd] auto-nix-install: set github access token by @savil in #728
• Remove obsolete code after unified env by @ipince in #729
• Remove dead code by @ipince in #732
• Shellenv prepends to original path, not current path by @ipince in #730
• plansdk: get cloud cache from environment by @gcurtis in #734
• Escape env vars in shellenv the same way as in shellrc by @ipince in #731
• Plugin Contributing Guide by @Lagoja in #611
• Remove more dead code by @ipince in #735
• [xdg]: unexport xxxDir() and use xxxSubpath() only by @hezhizhen in #733
• Fix build: only go:embed .json files in plugins dir by @ipince in #743
• Fix quickstart button to link to tutorial by @Lagoja in #737
• Include plugin subdirs by @ipince in #746
• [config] early return if cannot find GlobalDataPath by @savil in #739
• [flakes] Assign higher priority to later packages to resolve conflicting packages error by @savil in #738
• Update and activate stale-issue-cleanup by @Lagoja in #665
• nix,impl: avoid modifying flake.nix; don't use --impure by @gcurtis in #749
• ci: enable DEVBOX_DEBUG for all test jobs by @gcurtis in #751
• testscripts: enable DEVBOX_DEBUG by @gcurtis in #752
• [allow unfree] add --impure and env-var to nix profile commands by @savil in #753
• all: add tracing by @gcurtis in #750

Full Changelog: 0.4.2...0.4.3