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+2025-01-29
+- There is now a `nix.enable` toggle to disable management of the Nix
+  installation. Nix installation management has been made more
+  opinionated as a consequence; nix-darwin now only supports managing a
+  multi‐user daemon installation of Nix, and unconditionally takes
+  ownership of the nix-daemon launchd daemon and the `_nixbld*` build
+  users when Nix installation management is enabled.
+
+  If the new constraints do not work with your setup, you can disable
+  the `nix.enable` option to opt out of Nix installation management
+  entirely; see the option documentation for caveats.
+
 2025-01-18
 - The default configuration path for all new installations
   is `/etc/nix-darwin`. This was already the undocumented