Release 2.16 (2023-05-31)
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Speed-up of downloads from binary caches. The number of parallel downloads (also known as substitutions) has been separated from the
--max-jobssetting. The new setting is calledmax-substitution-jobs. The number of parallel downloads is now set to 16 by default (previously, the default was 1 due to the coupling to build jobs). -
The function
builtins.replaceStringsis now lazy in the value of its second argumentto. That is,tois only evaluated when its corresponding pattern infromis matched in the strings.