diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml
index 1e732be031e1..8b15f8f4c0d7 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@
           6</link> for more details.
         </para>
       </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          GNOME has been upgraded to 41. Please take a look at their
+          <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/41.0/">Release
+          Notes</link> for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
   </section>
   <section xml:id="sec-release-21.11-new-services">
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md
index 3abd869d672a..918542bcef3e 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the followin
 
 - `kubernetes-helm` now defaults to 3.7.0, which introduced some breaking changes to the experimental OCI manifest format. See [HIP 6](https://github.com/helm/community/blob/main/hips/hip-0006.md) for more details.
 
+- GNOME has been upgraded to 41. Please take a look at their [Release Notes](https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/41.0/) for details.
+
 ## New Services {#sec-release-21.11-new-services}
 
 - [btrbk](https://digint.ch/btrbk/index.html), a backup tool for btrfs subvolumes, taking advantage of btrfs specific capabilities to create atomic snapshots and transfer them incrementally to your backup locations. Available as [services.btrbk](options.html#opt-services.brtbk.instances).