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Announcing Lix 2.94 “Açaí na tigela”

Nov 18, 2025

We at the Lix team are proud to announce our fifth major release, version 2.94 “Açaí na tigela”. This release focuses on bugfixes, quality-of-life improvements, performance improvements and started integrating Lix with the Cap’n’Proto remote procedure call runtime, in order to replace the previous bespoke implementation.

LixCon in 2026

Nov 5, 2025

LixCon 2026 – this coming April, in Paris We won’t bury the lede: we’re super excited to announce that our first LixCon will take place from the 17th to 19th of April, 2026, in Paris!

Meta news on Lix in October 2025

Oct 13, 2025

As Lix continues to evolve, we’re excited to share some major updates that mark a new chapter in our journey. This blog post is the first of its kind: we want to give you a deeper look into the decisions, plans, and developments shaping the future of Lix.

Critical correctness bug in Lix

Jun 27, 2025

This incident has been mitigated. This post will be updated with pointers on how to close it. The Lix team remains available over all support channels to help recovering any system affected by it.

Fixes for five Lix CVEs

Jun 24, 2025

Security researchers have found five security issues in Lix. These issues were assigned CVE numbers: CVE-2025-46415 CVE-2025-46416 CVE-2025-52991 CVE-2025-52992 CVE-2025-52993 We have release updates to Lix 2.

Announcing Lix 2.93 “Bici Bici”

May 6, 2025

We at the Lix team are proud to announce our fourth major release, version 2.93 “Bici Bici”. This release focuses on bugfixes and continues integrating Lix with the KJ asynchronous runtime, in order to replace the previous bespoke implementation.

Announcing Lix 2.92 "Bombe glacée"

Jan 18, 2025

We at the Lix team are proud to announce our third major release, version 2.92 “Bombe glacée”. This release focuses on evolution work of the evaluator and store in order to be able to replace the Nix store protocol, to make the evaluator faster, and to remove rarely-used and troublesome features of the Nix language.

Lix installations upgrading to macOS Sequoia require manual repair

Sep 15, 2024

macOS Sequoia release day is almost upon us, and that means all your Lix and Nix installations on macOS are going to break when you upgrade your OS.

Announcing Lix 2.91 "Dragon's Breath"

Aug 12, 2024

We at the Lix team are proud to announce our second major release, version 2.91 “Dragon’s Breath”. This release contains unspecified bug fixes and performance improvements—no of course we will tell you what is in it.

Announcing Lix 2.90 "Vanilla Ice Cream"

Jul 10, 2024

We at the Lix team are proud to announce our first release, version 2.90 “Vanilla Ice Cream”. This release focuses on foundations and reliability, but nevertheless contains several small but exciting user-facing features that are exclusive to Lix.