nixpkgs-suyu/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md

Release 21.11 (“?”, 2021.11/??)

In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights:

• Support is planned until the end of April 2022, handing over to 22.05.

Highlights

• PHP now defaults to PHP 8.0, updated from 7.4.

New Services

• geoipupdate, a GeoIP database updater from MaxMind. Available as services.geoipupdate.

• sourcehut, a collection of tools useful for software development. Available as services.sourcehut.

• ucarp, an userspace implementation of the Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP). Available as networking.ucarp.

Backward Incompatibilities

• The staticjinja package has been upgraded from 1.0.4 to 2.0.0

• services.geoip-updater was broken and has been replaced by services.geoipupdate.

• PHP 7.3 is no longer supported due to upstream not supporting this version for the entire lifecycle of the 21.11 release.

• Those making use of buildBazelPackage will need to regenerate the fetch hashes (preferred), or set fetchConfigured = false;.

• consul was upgraded to a new major release with breaking changes, see upstream changelog.

• fsharp41 has been removed in preference to use the latest dotnet-sdk

• The following F#-related packages have been removed for being unmaintaned. Please use fetchNuGet for specific packages.

  • ExtCore
  • Fake
  • Fantomas
  • FsCheck
  • FsCheck262
  • FsCheckNunit
  • FSharpAutoComplete
  • FSharpCompilerCodeDom
  • FSharpCompilerService
  • FSharpCompilerTools
  • FSharpCore302
  • FSharpCore3125
  • FSharpCore4001
  • FSharpCore4117
  • FSharpData
  • FSharpData225
  • FSharpDataSQLProvider
  • FSharpFormatting
  • FsLexYacc
  • FsLexYacc706
  • FsLexYaccRuntime
  • FsPickler
  • FsUnit
  • Projekt
  • Suave
  • UnionArgParser
  • ExcelDnaRegistration
  • MathNetNumerics

• programs.x2goserver is now services.x2goserver

• The following dotnet-related packages have been removed for being unmaintaned. Please use fetchNuGet for specific packages.

  • Autofac
  • SystemValueTuple
  • MicrosoftDiaSymReader
  • MicrosoftDiaSymReaderPortablePdb
  • SystemCollectionsImmutable
  • SystemCollectionsImmutable131
  • SystemReflectionMetadata
  • NUnit350
  • Deedle
  • ExcelDna
  • GitVersionTree
  • NDeskOptions

• The antlr package now defaults to the 4.x release instead of the old 2.7.7 version.

• The libwnck package now defaults to the 3.x release instead of the old 2.31.0 version.

Other Notable Changes

• The setting services.openssh.logLevel "VERBOSE" "INFO". This brings NixOS in line with upstream and other Linux distributions, and reduces log spam on servers due to bruteforcing botnets.

  However, if services.fail2ban.enable is true, the fail2ban will override the verbosity to "VERBOSE", so that fail2ban can observe the failed login attempts from the SSH logs.

• Sway: The terminal emulator rxvt-unicode is no longer installed by default via programs.sway.extraPackages. The current default configuration uses alacritty (and soon foot) so this is only an issue when using a customized configuration and not installing rxvt-unicode explicitly.