NixOS 25.11 "Xantusia" Released with 7 Months of Support
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Summary
NixOS 25.11 "Xantusia" has been officially released, as announced by release managers jopejoe1 and Leona Maroni. This Linux distribution release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven months until June 30, 2026. The previous release, NixOS 25.05 "Warbler," is now deprecated and will stop receiving security updates after December 31, 2025. NixOS uses the Nix package manager, which enables reproducible, declarative, and reliable system configurations, and its underlying Nixpkgs repository can also be used on other Linux systems and macOS.
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· 4 pulledWe are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 25.11 'Xantusia'.
This release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven months (up until 2026-06-30).
The old release 25.05 'Warbler' is now officially deprecated and will reach its end-of-life and stop receiving security updates after 2025-12-31.
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration.
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