# Nix Weekly Recap: 2024-03-31

DevFeed: [Nix Weekly Recap: 2024-03-31](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/nix-weekly-recap-2024-03-31-34712.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://nixpkgs.news/archive/2024-03-31/>)

Published: 2024-03-31T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [nixpkgs.news](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nixpkgs-news.md>)

Topics: [Nix](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nix.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [backdoor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backdoor.md>), [CVE 2024 3094](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cve-2024-3094.md>), [liblzma](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/liblzma.md>), [xz](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/xz.md>), [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [Vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerabilities.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [Repl.it](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replit.md>)

Tags: [backdoor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backdoor.md>), [cve-2024-3094](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cve-2024-3094.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [liblzma](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/liblzma.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [recap](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recap.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [weekly](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/weekly.md>), [xz](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/xz.md>)

## AI overview

A weekly recap of Nix community and NixPkgs activity, including the response to the critical xz/liblzma backdoor vulnerability CVE-2024-3094, release staffing, an RFC, new tools, testing, documentation, and a Python-environment update.

## Source excerpt

Weekly recap of the announcements and activity in the Nix community and on the NixPkgs package repository.