Hey everyone, we are Janne Heß & Martin Weinelt, the release managers for NixOS 22.11 🦝 ("Raccoon").

Today it's time to talk about the feature freeze for the upcoming release. We have two upcoming dates that we'd like to mention in that context:

• 2022-10-17 Updates to release critical packages are restricted
• 2022-10-31 Breaking changes in general are restricted, with the exception of desktop environments

The complete timeline can be found in the

• 🦝 NixOS 22.11 - Release schedule #193585.

So with two weeks to the first restrictions kicking in, we want to encourage all teams to check in now and mention possible roadblocks, so we get a good overview of what's ahead.

Blockers

Whether you were pinged or not, we encourage everyone to create issues for release blockers and add them to the 22.11 Blockers project.

Check-In

Please comment your status quo and possible issues as soon as possible. We'll check teams once they have checked in.

If you think some subsystem, person or team should be added to or removed from this list, update maintainers/team-list.nix in time before the next feature freeze announcement.

Desktop environments

• Cinnamon: @bobby285271 @mkg20001
• Enlightenment: @NixOS/enlightenment
• GNOME: @NixOS/gnome @bobby285271 @dasj19 @maxeaubrey
• MATE: @romildo @johannesloetzsch
• Lumina: @NixOS/lumina
• LXQt: @NixOS/lxqt
• Pantheon: @NixOS/pantheon
• Qt / KDE: @NixOS/qt-kde
• XFCE: @romildo

Platforms

• Darwin: @NixOS/darwin-maintainers
• Mobile: @NixOS/mobile-nixos

Languages

• BEAM: @NixOS/beam @minijackson
• C: @matthewbauer @Mic92
• Coq: @CohenCyril @Zimmi48 @siraben @vbgl
• Dhall: @Gabriella439 @ehmry
• Go: @c00w @kalbasit @Mic92 @zowoq
• Haskell: @NixOS/haskell
• lua: @NixOS/lua
• Perl: @stigtsp
• PHP: @NixOS/php
• Python: @FRidh @mweinelt @jonringer
• R: @bcdarwin @jbedo
• Ruby: @marsam
• Rust: @LnL7 @Mic92 @zowoq

Modules

• ACME: @m1cr0man @aanderse @andrew-d @arianvp @emilazy @flokli
• systemd: @NixOS/systemd

Internals

• Docs: @ryantm @pennae
• Marketing: @garbas @tomberek
• Nix/nix-cli ecosystem: @Profpatsch @edolstra @grahamc @nbp
• NixOS modules & internals: @Ericson2314 @infinisil @alyssais @roberth
• NixOS tests: @tfc

Finally

No issue is too big or too small, but let's remember that we are all working on the project voluntarily in our free time here, so let's focus on issues that can be realistically addressed in the remaining time before the release.

We thank everyone for their contribution!