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Lix 2.96 adds security and debugger work while advancing RPC and Rust support

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Lix 2.96 focuses on security, debugger support, and quality-of-life improvements while continuing work on a Cap'n Proto RPC protocol and Rust support. The update is relevant to engineers maintaining Nix-based build and development infrastructure.

What

Lix 2.96 focuses on security, debugger support, quality-of-life improvements, and continued work on Cap’n Proto RPC and Rust support.

How

The experimental RPC protocol ships behind the rpc-sockets feature and requires configuration and system setup; the debugger and REPL also gain improvements.

Why it matters

Daemon and remote-build protocol changes, along with stricter ssh-ng security checks, matter for reliable and secure distributed builds.

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