Hello, this is your NixOS 24.11 ("Vicuna") release managers, Tristan Ross & Weijia Wang.

Today we're glad to announce the kickoff of the release schedule. Because of that, it's time to discuss the feature freeze. NixOS releases have had a history of being stable and reliable and we would like to continue that. I would like to also point out that if there's any issues with the aarch64 platforms, that we could get those fixed or any other improvements done.

Some important dates of concern:

• 2024-10-11: Restrict breaking changes to Release Critical Packages
• 2024-10-25: Restrict all breaking changes: allow only non-breaking updates and Desktop Manager changes

Our full 24.11 release schedule is available here

• Release Schedule for 24.11 #339153

As of the time of posting this, we have a couple weeks before the release critical changes are restricted. If at all possible, let's get those done as soon as possible.

Blockers

If you were pinged or know of any blocking issues for NixOS 24.11, please submit them in the issue tracker and place them into the 24.11 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 or removed from this list, update maintainers/team-list.nix in time before the next feature freeze announcement.

Desktop environments

• Cinnamon: @bobby285271 @mkg20001
• DDE: @wineee
• Enlightenment: @NixOS/enlightenment
• GNOME: @NixOS/gnome @bobby285271 @dasj19
• Lomiri: @OPNA2608
• Lumina: @NixOS/lumina
• LXQt: @NixOS/lxqt
• MATE: @bobby285271 @johannesloetzsch @romildo
• Pantheon: @NixOS/pantheon
• Qt / KDE: @NixOS/qt-kde @ilya-fedin @K900 @LunNova @mjm @NickCao @SuperSandro2000
• Xfce: @bobby285271 @romildo @muscaln

Platforms

• Darwin: @NixOS/darwin-maintainers

Languages ecosystem

• BEAM: @NixOS/beam @minijackson
• C: @matthewbauer @Mic92
• Coq: @CohenCyril @Zimmi48 @siraben @vbgl @Alizter
• Dhall: @Gabriella439 @ehmry
• Go: @NixOS/golang
• Haskell: @NixOS/haskell
• lisp: @NixOS/lisp @hraban
• lua: @NixOS/lua
• Node.js: @winterqt
• OCaml: @NixOS/ocaml
• Perl: @stigtsp @marcusramberg @zakame
• PHP: @NixOS/php @piotrkwiecinski
• Python: @mweinelt @natsukium
• R: @b-rodrigues @bcdarwin @jbedo @Kupac
• Rust: @NixOS/rust
• Zig: @figsoda

Compilers, build systems

• Bazel: @mboes @uri-canva @avdv @olebedev @groodt @aherrmann @ylecornec
• LLVM: @NixOS/llvm

Programs

• CloudPosse: @dudymas
• Geospatial: @NixOS/geospatial @autra @l0b0
• Lix ecosystem: @RaitoBezarius @Qyriad

Modules

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

Core

• Docs: @NixOS/documentation-team
• Marketing: @garbas @tomberek
• Module system: @infinisil @roberth
• Nix/nix-cli ecosystem: @NixOS/nix-team
• NixOS tests: @tfc

Everyone Else

@NixOS/nixpkgs-committers @NixOS/release-engineers

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!