# Should I update stateVersion

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/should-i-update-stateversion/76839
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [April 5, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/should-i-update-stateversion/76839 "2026-04-05T15:04:23Z")
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### Author: ![Wekuz](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/wekuz/32/36929_2.png) [@Wekuz](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/Wekuz)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/should-i-update-stateversion/76839/6 "2026-04-05T20:10:39Z")

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The thing is that I migrating everything isn’t the end of the world for me. I am still in the setup phase, I have like 10+ services to move (convert to Nix form) from my current/previous machine. I was actually planning on re-installing from scratch to test how declarative my config really is and which things I have configured manually.  
So would switching to stateVersion 26.05 be valid choice then?  
And btw are xx.05 the same thing as xx.11 or is there some difference (e.g. LTS)?

> [@TLATER](#):
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> we will never be able to migrate all users, so in practice all these backwards-compatibility hacks will have to be maintained ad infinitum

Yeah that’s the problem with big projects that a lot of people depend on, you can never really change stuff that made it out of testing.

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