Release 21.11 (<quote>?</quote>, 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.
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been replaced by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;.
Other Notable Changes