# Release 26.11 ("Zokor", 2026.11/??) {#sec-release-26.11}

## Highlights {#sec-release-26.11-highlights}

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- Create the first release note entry in this section!

## New Modules {#sec-release-26.11-new-modules}

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- [tranquil](https://tangled.org/tranquil.farm/tranquil-pds) is an ATProto PDS (personal data server) implementation in Rust. A featureful, spec conscious and community driven alternative to the Bluesky reference implementation PDS. Available as [services.tranquil-pds](#opt-services.tranquil-pds.enable).

- [FlapAlerted](https://github.com/Kioubit/FlapAlerted), detects BGP flapping events and provides statistics based on BGP update messages. Available as [services.flap-alerted](#opt-services.flap-alerted.enable).

## Backward Incompatibilities {#sec-release-26.11-incompatibilities}

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- `boot.vesa` has been removed. It was deprecated in 2020 because Xorg now works better with kernel modesetting. If you still need the legacy VESA 800x600 fallback, set `boot.kernelParams = [ "vga=0x317" "nomodeset" ];` directly.

- Support for the legacy U‐Boot image format has been removed from the initrd generators, as it is deprecated upstream and no longer used by any platform in Nixpkgs.

- Python 2 has been removed from the top-level package set, as it is long past end-of-life. The `python2`, `python27`, `python2Full`, `python27Full`, `python2Packages`, and `python27Packages` attributes, along with the legacy `python`, `pythonFull`, and `pythonPackages` aliases, now throw an error directing you to `python3`. The `isPy2` and `isPy27` package flags have been removed accordingly. The only remaining Python 2 interpreter is vendored inside the `resholve` package for its `oil` dependency and is not exposed for general use.

- `services.timesyncd.extraConfig` has been removed in favor of the structured [](#opt-services.timesyncd.settings.Time) option. Use `services.timesyncd.settings.Time` to set any `timesyncd.conf(5)` option directly. For example, replace `services.timesyncd.extraConfig = "PollIntervalMaxSec=180";` with `services.timesyncd.settings.Time.PollIntervalMaxSec = 180;`.

## Other Notable Changes {#sec-release-26.11-notable-changes}

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- `boot.loader.systemd-boot` gained support for [Automatic Boot Assessment](https://systemd.io/AUTOMATIC_BOOT_ASSESSMENT/) via the new [`boot.loader.systemd-boot.bootCounting`](#opt-boot.loader.systemd-boot.bootCounting.enable) options, allowing automatic detection of and recovery from bad NixOS generations. As part of this change, boot loader entries on the ESP/XBOOTLDR partition are now named `nixos-<content-hash>.conf` instead of `nixos-generation-<n>.conf`; existing entries are migrated automatically on the next `nixos-rebuild boot`/`switch`.

- The `newuidmap` and `newgidmap` security wrappers are now installed with `cap_setuid`/`cap_setgid` file capabilities instead of the setuid-root bit, matching shadow's `--with-fcaps` install mode and other major distributions. Rootless containers (podman, docker-rootless, unprivileged user namespaces) are unaffected. The only behavioural change is that mapping host uid 0 via `/etc/subuid` (which NixOS never configures by default) additionally requires `cap_setfcap`; users who explicitly grant uid 0 in a subuid range can restore the previous behaviour with `security.wrappers.newuidmap.capabilities = lib.mkForce "cap_setuid,cap_setfcap+ep";`.
