Good news for Determinate users: FlakeHub now supports Google Cloud Platform as an authentication provider. Systems running in GCE, GKE, and more are now just one command away from access to private flakes and FlakeHub Cache ☁️ 🔐 🎉
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PlanetNix is next week, and we can't wait to see everyone! If you are in town, join us for a pre-PlanetNix happy hour. Drinks and food are on us, you just have to bring your love for Nix and a desire to meet other people just like you. Space is limited, so grab your spot now: luma.com/vge2y1zk
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San Francisco, we are doing a #Nix happy hour later today and want to see you there! More details and RSVP here: luma.com/qcicp5vj
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📣 ⏰ Our next webinar kicks off in one hour, this time on provenance and SBOMs with Nix. If you use #Nix or #NixOS at work and care about security and compliance, you won't want to miss this one. Register here to join us live or get the recording when it is ready: luma.com/m9cu1t59
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Reproducibility is table stakes. But what about verifiable provenance and SBOMs?
On Thurs, Feb 19, join our next webinar, Provenance and SBOMs with Nix, to see how Determinate Nix, FlakeHub, and Determinate Secure Packages bring assurances to the supply chain. Register now: luma.com/m9cu1t59
Nix users in San Francisco: join DetSys for a Nix/NixOS happy hour on Thursday, Feb 19 🍻. If you’re a software developer on a professional team or enterprise using Nix, this is for you. Meet the DetSys team + fellow Nix enthusiasts. Drinks and snacks compliments of Root Ventures. luma.com/qcicp5vj
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📬 The next issue of The Determinate Update is almost here! It’s our behind-the-scenes look at how we're advancing #Nix and #NixOS at Determinate Systems, from the tools we build to community initiatives we're driving, and more.
🔗 Sign up to stay in the loop: mailchi.mp/909681b61b0f...
Another DetSys webinar is on its way! On Thursday, February 19th at 12pm EST, tune in to hear our own @lucperkins.dev talk about the work that we're eager to share around Determinate Nix, provenance, SBOMs, and Determinate Secure Packages.
Get all the details and register here: luma.com/m9cu1t59
Planet Nix 2026 is just 4 weeks away and we couldn't be more excited to hang with you all! To kick things off we're hosting an open happy hour the evening before the conference on Wednesday, March 4th at 5pm. Open to all but space is limited, so please register: luma.com/vge2y1zk
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Good news: FlakeHub (flakehub.com) now supports Okta for authentication 🔐🆔🛡️. Okta is one of the most powerful and widely used auth providers, especially for larger organizations. Onboarding instructions for your org are in the Determinate documentation.
docs.determinate.systems/guides/okta-...
Determinate Nix users: we are now rolling out parallel evaluation to ALL users as a GA feature. We're setting the default number of cores to 2 and will slowly ramp that up over time, gathering feedback and bug reports along the way. More info here:
docs.determinate.systems/determinate-...
Determinate Nix 3.15.2 has arrived 🚀❄️! We've made our nix-darwin module a bit more powerful, provided a version of nix-eval-jobs compatible with DetNix, and brought along our usual bevy of minor fixes. This is the one you really want 😎
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FOSDEM 2026 is this weekend and DetSys software engineer Tristan Ross will be speaking on Saturday about an increasingly important topic in the Nix ecosystem: SBOMs. In person or online, this one is a can't-miss! fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
#fosdem #fosdem2026 #fosdem26
(3/3) The best way to stay close to what’s coming (and help shape it) is to become a customer. Learn how in our launch blog post and reach out to us when you're ready to level up your Nix security and compliance game.
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(2/3) Our Determinate Secure Package roadmap for 2026 and beyond is exciting and includes:
- More packages in the secure subset
- Malicious change analysis
- Excluding risky and sanctioned packages
- Security and compliance tool integrations
- More cryptography options beyond FIPS
- And more!
In case you missed it, we announced the release of Determinate Secure Packages earlier this week. 🔐 📦 🎁 🎉
Already an industry-first and game changer for enterprises that rely on Nix, this is just the start of what we are building. 🧵👇 (1/3)
Nix stays Nix. The risk profile changes. Your workload is lightened. Ready to get started? Learn how here: docs.determinate.systems/secure-packa...
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And through it all, nothing is taken away:
- A subset of packages undergoes heavy scrutiny but all of Nixpkgs remains available
- It’s a drop-in replacement, so all you need to do is change the flake reference
- You keep the same Nix workflows but eliminate numerous security unknowns
...as well as:
- Explicit response SLAs for CVE remediation
- Packages built on SOC-2-Type-II-compliant infrastructure and cached in FlakeHub Cache
We're not changing how Nix works—we're absorbing the operational and security burden that you'd need to shoulder on your own. With DSP, you get:
- Per-release SBOMs in CycloneDX format for provenance
- Explicit response SLAs for CVE remediation
- Grype security scans multiple times a day
On Tuesday we announced Determinate Secure Packages, our first foray beyond infra and tools and into a fully managed supply chain. Today, we want to talk about what makes it a bold departure from just vanilla Nixpkgs and handling security yourself. Read on for more 🔗🧵👇
15.01.2026 21:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0(3/3) We want people to consider those things non-negotiable must-haves when it comes to organizational adoption. Time will tell on that, of course, and we're confident that this is a deeply fruitful direction for Nix and Nixpkgs.
14.01.2026 18:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(2/3) We're hoping that it proves to be a watershed moment for Nix in the enterprise—not just for the splashier features (like SLAs for CVE remediation and FIPS support) but also for what it means for things like provenance, SBOMs, release diffs, secure infrastructure, and deep compliance-mindedness
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(1/3) Yesterday, we made one of our biggest announcements yet: Determinate Secure Packages 📦 ❄️ 🔐. Check out our announcement in case you missed it:
determinate.systems/blog/secure-...
Today we're thrilled to announce Determinate Secure Packages, a drop-in replacement for Nixpkgs offering secure Nix packages for the enterprise, with CVE monitoring and SLA-backed remediation, per-release SBOMs, FIPS compliance, cryptographic signing, and more.
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At Determinate Systems, we’ve been hard at work on an industry-leading solution to this problem: Determinate Secure Packages 📦 ❄️ ✨. Stay tuned this week for a series of announcements 📣. Or check out our recent webinar for a sneak peek: luma.com/bq0phmmf
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But if you’re a CSO or other security-minded decision maker, the picture isn’t quite so rosy 🥀. No SLAs dictating response time for CVEs. No SBOMs for provenance. All packages built and cached on community infrastructure. Packages often missing from the cache due to build failures.
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The software supply chain is on everyone’s mind these days. If you’re an enterprise adopting Nix, that means that Nixpkgs needs to be at the center of your focus. Nixpkgs is a technological marvel, the most comprehensive package source on Earth and the cornerstone of the Nix ecosystem. But...
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On the twelfth day of Nixmas ❄️🎄 DetSys gave to thee 🎁: a new webinar series in which we announce new products and share our Nix expertise in an effort to smooth your path to adopting Nix on teams and in the enterprise! 🕸️ 📺 🎙️
determinate.systems/webinars
On the eleventh day of Nixmas ❄️🎄 DetSys gave to thee 🎁: resolved store paths, which enables you to fetch artifacts from FlakeHub Cache without even needing to evaluate the derivation, a huge win on memory-constrained systems! 🤖 🛣️
docs.determinate.systems/flakehub/sto...
