Let’s have a great 25.11 release cycle!

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Hey everyone,

I’m the current release manager for the NixOS 25.11 (“Xantusia”) release together with @leona as fellow release manager and @getchoo and @pyrox the release editors.

Thanks to this community for making it possible for me to get this opportunity to manage a release cycle.

The schedule for this release can be found at GitHub issue #443568, which may change a bit depending on the situation. Also, feel free to provide feedback about the process if you feel like it.

If you feel like reaching out to any of us or want to otherwise participate in this release, feel free to join the release management room in Matrix, we would love to hear feedback and improvements to the release cycle.

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Discussion about Feature Freeze & Release Blockers started: NixOS 25.11 – Feature Freeze & Release Blockers · Issue #444721 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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from @jopejoe1 :

Due to recent events, many contributors could not work as much on release-related changes as they actually wanted, and we think that it would be a good idea to move the feature freeze and release by one week so that we have enough time to get in everything that we want in this release.

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Just entered beta for 25.11, so don’t forget to backport your important changes. :confetti_ball:

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Hey all, thank you for all the work on the new release!
I was wondering to take a look at the list of incompatibilities and breaking changes, but cannot find it. Will it only be available after release?

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For nixpkgs: nixpkgs/doc/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md at fad0870a689210ac3989dd4582b9781e75b6325e · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

For NixOS: nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md at fad0870a689210ac3989dd4582b9781e75b6325e · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

These release note documents have what you’re looking for.

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i wanted to somehow insert a joke about these being not the droids i’m looking for,
but these are.
thank you

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