nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml

<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-21.11">
  <title>Release 21.11 (“?”, 2021.11/??)</title>
  <para>
    In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has
    the following highlights:
  </para>
  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Support is planned until the end of April 2022, handing over to
        22.05.
      </para>
    </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
  <section xml:id="sec-release-21.11-highlights">
    <title>Highlights</title>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          PHP now defaults to PHP 8.0, updated from 7.4.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
  <section xml:id="sec-release-21.11-new-services">
    <title>New Services</title>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate">geoipupdate</link>,
          a GeoIP database updater from MaxMind. Available as
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.geoipupdate.enable">services.geoipupdate</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://sr.ht">sourcehut</link>, a
          collection of tools useful for software development. Available
          as
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.sourcehut.enable">services.sourcehut</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://download.pureftpd.org/pub/ucarp/README">ucarp</link>,
          an userspace implementation of the Common Address Redundancy
          Protocol (CARP). Available as
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.ucarp.enable">networking.ucarp</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Users of flashrom should migrate to
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-programs.flashrom.enable">programs.flashrom.enable</link>
          and add themselves to the <literal>flashrom</literal> group to
          be able to access programmers supported by flashrom.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
  <section xml:id="sec-release-21.11-incompatibilities">
    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>staticjinja</literal> package has been upgraded
          from 1.0.4 to 2.0.0
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>services.geoip-updater</literal> was broken and has
          been replaced by
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.geoipupdate.enable">services.geoipupdate</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          PHP 7.3 is no longer supported due to upstream not supporting
          this version for the entire lifecycle of the 21.11 release.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Those making use of <literal>buildBazelPackage</literal> will
          need to regenerate the fetch hashes (preferred), or set
          <literal>fetchConfigured = false;</literal>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>consul</literal> was upgraded to a new major release
          with breaking changes, see
          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/releases/tag/v1.10.0">upstream
          changelog</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          fsharp41 has been removed in preference to use the latest
          dotnet-sdk
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The following F#-related packages have been removed for being
          unmaintaned. Please use <literal>fetchNuGet</literal> for
          specific packages.
        </para>
        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
          <listitem>
            <para>
              ExtCore
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Fake
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Fantomas
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FsCheck
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FsCheck262
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FsCheckNunit
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FSharpAutoComplete
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FSharpCompilerCodeDom
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FSharpCompilerService
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FSharpCompilerTools
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FSharpCore302
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FSharpCore3125
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FSharpCore4001
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FSharpCore4117
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FSharpData
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FSharpData225
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FSharpDataSQLProvider
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FSharpFormatting
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FsLexYacc
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FsLexYacc706
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FsLexYaccRuntime
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FsPickler
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              FsUnit
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Projekt
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Suave
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              UnionArgParser
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              ExcelDnaRegistration
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              MathNetNumerics
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>programs.x2goserver</literal> is now
          <literal>services.x2goserver</literal>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The following dotnet-related packages have been removed for
          being unmaintaned. Please use <literal>fetchNuGet</literal>
          for specific packages.
        </para>
        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Autofac
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              SystemValueTuple
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              MicrosoftDiaSymReader
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              MicrosoftDiaSymReaderPortablePdb
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              SystemCollectionsImmutable
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              SystemCollectionsImmutable131
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              SystemReflectionMetadata
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              NUnit350
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Deedle
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              ExcelDna
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              GitVersionTree
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              NDeskOptions
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>antlr</literal> package now defaults to the 4.x
          release instead of the old 2.7.7 version.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>libwnck</literal> package now defaults to the 3.x
          release instead of the old 2.31.0 version.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
  <section xml:id="sec-release-21.11-notable-changes">
    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The setting
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.openssh.logLevel"><literal>services.openssh.logLevel</literal></link>
          <literal>&quot;VERBOSE&quot;</literal>
          <literal>&quot;INFO&quot;</literal>. This brings NixOS in line
          with upstream and other Linux distributions, and reduces log
          spam on servers due to bruteforcing botnets.
        </para>
        <para>
          However, if
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.fail2ban.enable"><literal>services.fail2ban.enable</literal></link>
          is <literal>true</literal>, the <literal>fail2ban</literal>
          will override the verbosity to
          <literal>&quot;VERBOSE&quot;</literal>, so that
          <literal>fail2ban</literal> can observe the failed login
          attempts from the SSH logs.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Sway: The terminal emulator <literal>rxvt-unicode</literal> is
          no longer installed by default via
          <literal>programs.sway.extraPackages</literal>. The current
          default configuration uses <literal>alacritty</literal> (and
          soon <literal>foot</literal>) so this is only an issue when
          using a customized configuration and not installing
          <literal>rxvt-unicode</literal> explicitly.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
</section>