2017-07-06 - added user channels to the default nix.nixPath Using a user channel now works without any custom configuration. See https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1548 if you are running into issues when updating your channel. 2017-07-28 - added support for command-not-found, using nix-index programs.nix-index.enable = true; 2017-07-23 - darwin entry in the default nix.nixPath was removed Use a channel for nix-darwin or configure nix.nixPath sudo nix-channel --add https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/archive/master.tar.gz darwin sudo nix-channel --update nix.nixPath = [ "darwin=$HOME/.nix-defexpr/darwin" "darwin-config=$HOME/.nixpkgs/darwin-configuration.nix" "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels" ]; 2017-01-09 - nix.profile was renamed to nix.package