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This commit deprecates profile management from the activation script. The profile management is instead the responsibility of the driving software, for example, the `home-manager` tool in the case of standalone installs. The legacy behavior is still available for backwards compatibility but may be removed in the future. The new behavior resolves (or moves us closer to resolving) a number of long standing open issues: - `home-manager switch --rollback`, which performs a rollback to the previous Home Manager generation before activating. While it was previously possible to accomplish this by activating an old generation, it did always create a new profile generation. This option has been implemented as part of this commit. - `home-manager switch --test`, which activates the configuration but does not create a new profile generation. This option has _not_ been implemented here since it relies on the current configuration being activated on login, which we do not currently do. - When using the "Home Manager as a NixOS module" installation method we previously created an odd `home-manager` per-user "shadow profile" for the user. This is no longer necessary. This has been implemented as part of this commit. Fixes #3450
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# Release 24.11 {#sec-release-24.11}
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This is the current unstable branch and the information in this section
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is therefore not final.
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## Highlights {#sec-release-24.11-highlights}
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This release has the following notable changes:
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- The `home-manager` Nix profile update that the Home Manager
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activation script has previously performed is now deprecated. The
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profile update is instead the responsibility of the software calling
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the activation script, such as the `home-manager` tool..
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The legacy behavior is the default for backwards compatibility but
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may be emit a deprecation warning in the future, for eventual
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removal. If you have developed tooling that directly call the
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generated activation script, then you are encouraged to adapt to the
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new behavior. See [Activation](#sec-internals-activation) for
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details on how to call the activation script.
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- The `home-manager switch` command now offers a `--rollback` option.
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When given, the switch performs a rollback to the Home Manager
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generation prior to the current before activating. While it was
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previously possible to accomplish this by manually activating an old
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generation, it always created a new profile generation. The new
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behavior mirrors the behavior of `nixos-rebuild switch --rollback`.
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See the [Rollbacks](#sec-usage-rollbacks) section for more.
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- When using Home Manager as a NixOS or nix-darwin module we
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previously created an unnecessary `home-manager` per-user "shadow
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profile" for the user. This no longer happens.
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## State Version Changes {#sec-release-24.11-state-version-changes}
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The state version in this release includes the changes below. These
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changes are only active if the `home.stateVersion` option is set to
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\"24.11\" or later.
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- No changes.
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