/roadmap
Status, plans and limits.
Ephemeral Nix is a working, released system maintained by one person. There is no published roadmap; this page lists what the repositories actually state.
01Now
Current releases.
Releases mostly run themselves. Every Monday the config gets a patch release with the newest nixpkgs, once the boot tests pass. Every Tuesday the installer opens a pull request for the newest config release and runs the install test on it; if it passes, a new installer and ISO are released. Inputs other than nixpkgs are updated once a month, in a pull request the maintainer reads first.
What changed, and what to do about breaking changes, is in the config changelog and the installer changelog.
02Planned
One stated plan.
- planned
Move to the stable NixOS 26.11 channel
The config tracks
nixos-unstableand moves to the stable 26.11 channel once that's released.
03Known limits
What it doesn't do today.
These are current limits, not promises to remove them.
| Secure Boot | Not set up; installing needs it off. Nothing protects the kernel and initrd on /boot. |
|---|---|
| TPM unlocking | The disk unlocks with a passphrase only. |
| Hibernation | Off, because protecting the kernel image rules it out. Suspend works. |
| Architectures | x86_64 with UEFI only. |
| NVIDIA | Evaluated in CI, not run. Laptops with two GPUs need PRIME set up in a module of your own. |
| Wi-Fi in a VM | Not tested; CI only checks that the ISO has what Wi-Fi needs. |
04Out of scope
On purpose.
Ephemeral Nix is an opinionated NixOS for one person on one machine. The config's ARCHITECTURE.md rules these out:
- Other disk layouts or file systems
- Dual boot
- More than one user per machine
- Becoming a general-purpose installer