NixOS Announcements

Framework Partnership Announcement

NixOS — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Official Partnership between NixOS Foundation and Framework

TL;DR: Since April 2025, The NixOS Foundation and Framework are officially partnering to improve NixOS support on Framework devices. This formalizes earlier community efforts, enabling selected community members to contribute to testing, documentation, and support for current and future hardware.

From Community Effort to Official Partnership

We're excited to announce that the collaboration between the NixOS Foundation and Framework is evolving: what started as a community-led initiative has become an official partnership.

This step also strengthens the relationship between Framework and the NixOS Foundation, with a shared focus on improving hardware support for NixOS on Framework devices both for existing and upcoming devices.

Why we decided to move from a community-led partnership to an official one

The collaboration between NixOS community members and Framework was a great starting point and showed what’s possible when passionate individuals come together. But naturally, such efforts are limited by the time and availability of just a few people. To build stronger, long-term relationships with hardware vendors and grow more industrial partnerships, we need to offer reliability and professional coordination. An official partnership gives manufacturers the confidence that the collaboration will continue beyond individual contributions, increasing the chances that NixOS could become an officially supported Linux distribution and allowing us to expand into new areas together.

What this means for the community

This partnership combines efforts to improve NixOS compatibility with Framework hardware in a more structured way. Selected community members and members of the hardware team can contribute to testing, documentation, and support, helping to enhance NixOS support on Framework devices and build a stronger partnership with Framework.

What we have achieved so far

We have created a shared Matrix channel between Framework and the NixOS Hardware Team for troubleshooting.
Framework (@JohnAZoidberg) is now contributing directly to the nixos-hardware and the nixpkgs repositories
- Framework 12
- Framework 16 AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series
- Framework Desktop
Framework donates €216/month
We received 2 Framework AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series devices.
The fw-fanctrl module was added to NixOS.
Framework donated Hardware to the NixOS Foundation for NixCon : Framework Desktop Max+ 395 , which was well received by our Guests.
Screen-rotation on Framework 12 merged: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/427476

NixOS 25.11 released

NixOS — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:00:00 GMT

Hey everyone, we are jopejoe1 and Leona Maroni, the release managers of the newest release of NixOS. We are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 25.11 "Xantusia".

NixOS is a Linux distribution. Its underlying package repository Nixpkgs can also be used on other Linux systems and macOS with the Nix package manager.

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.

The 25.11 release was made possible due to the efforts of 2742 contributors, who authored 59430 commits since the previous release.

Highlights

Our vast and routinely maintained set of packages has also been updated. This release of Nixpkgs

Added 7002 new packages
Updated 25252 existing packages
Removed 6338 outdated packages, in an effort to keep the package set maintainable and secure.

In addition to packages from Nixpkgs, the NixOS Linux distribution also features composable configuration modules and integration tests for distributed systems. This release of NixOS

Added 107 new modules and 1778 configuration options
Removed 41 outdated modules and 807 configuration options.

GNOME 49

GNOME has been updated to version 49 "Brescia", which removes X11 session support, introduces a new video player, a new document viewer, a redesigned calendar and more changes. Refer to the release notes for more details.

C compilers

LLVM has been updated to version 21. GCC remains at version 14. CMake was updated to version 4.

Special Thanks

We want to personally thank

Seth and dish for editorializing the release notes
Yohann Boniface for the release logo
The NixOS infrastructure team for their dutifully tending to our build infrastructure
The Nixpkgs staging team for supporting our staging cycles and the patient fixing of many build errors.

We also want to thank all contributors who made this release possible!

Reflections and closing

We are grateful for the opportunity to support the community as release managers and to learn about and participate in the release process. Seeing all the contributors working in their area of the project to improve it has been an exciting experience. We would like to thank everyone in the community for that. We are looking forward to the next release, NixOS 26.05 "Yarara".

NixOS 25.05 released

NixOS — Fri, 23 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Hey everyone, we are Leona Maroni and Tristan Ross, the release managers of the newest release of NixOS. We are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 25.05 "Warbler".

NixOS is a Linux distribution. Its underlying package repository Nixpkgs can also be used on other Linux systems and macOS with the Nix package manager.

This release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven months (up until 2025-12-31). The old release 24.11 "Vicuña" is now officially deprecated and will reach its end-of-life and stop receiving security updates after 2025-06-30.

The 25.05 release was made possible due to the efforts of 2857 contributors, who authored 57054 commits since the previous release.

Highlights

NixOS is already known as the most up to date distribution while also being the distribution with the most packages. This release of Nixpkgs

Added 7840 new packages
Updated 28054 existing packages
Removed 1694 outdated packages, in an effort to keep the package set maintainable and secure.

In addition to packages from Nixpkgs, the NixOS Linux distribution also features composable configuration modules and integration tests for distributed systems. This release of NixOS

Added 137 new modules and 1930 configuration options
Removed 10 outdated modules and 215 configuration options.

GNOME 48

GNOME has been updated to version 48 "Bengaluru", which introduces notification stacking, a new music player, HDR support, and more changes. Refer to the release notes for more details.

Kernel

The default Linux kernel has been updated from 6.6 to 6.12. All supported kernels remain available.

C compilers

LLVM has been updated to version 19. GCC has been updated to version 14.

Special Thanks

We want to personally thank

Seth and raf for editorializing the release notes
Yohann Boniface for the release logo
The NixOS infrastructure team for their dutifully tending to our build infrastructure
The Nixpkgs staging team for supporting our staging cycles and the patient fixing of many build errors.

We also want to thank all contributors who made this release possible!

Reflections and closing

NixOS Logo and Branding Update

NixOS — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT

History

The NixOS logo was originally designed by Simon Frankau for Haskell as part of the 2009 Haskell logo contest. Simon kindly gave permission for the design to be used by the NixOS project, and it was made official in November 2009. In 2015, a new version of the logo with a "hexagon design" was created by Tim Cuthbertson and added to the homepage. In March of 2017, it officially superseded the previous logo and was added to the nixos-artwork repository. Over the years, there have been many updates to the logo and repository, including:

Converting the logotype to paths, removing the dependency on users having the designated font installed.
Adding documentation about the font used to create the logotype, guide layers, and colors
Introducing various logo variants, including a vertical variant, an all-white variant, and a rainbow variant

Motivation to change

An incredible amount of work has gone into creating and improving the logo and its documentation. However, it suffers from some inconsistencies and many parts of it are still ambiguous.

The image below is a zoomed in view of the bottom of the NixOS logo with a horizontal line drawn starting at the bottom left of the snowflake. If you open the image and zoom in, you will see that the edges of the snowflake are not parallel to the horizontal line. Additionally, the edges of the snowflake are not collinear with each other. <img src="/images/blog/announcements/nixos-lambdas-not-collinear.jpg" alt="A zoomed in view of the bottom of the NixOS logo showing that the lambdas are not collinear or flat." style="display: block; margin: 0 auto; float: none; max-width: 100%; height: auto;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" />

The image below shows the paths that define the gradient for the lambdas. There are two gradient definitions that are different and ideally they would be the same.

When creating a brand guide, there are usually sections describing the anatomy of the logo, clearspace, sizing, alignment, variations, and misuse. Some of this information has been captured in the README co-located with the logos but not all of it is well defined. For example:

The anatomy of the logo is not well defined which should include information like the relative size of the logomark and logotype and the spacing between them.
The anatomy of the logomark is not well defined which should include information like the dimensions of the lambdas and the gap between lambdas.
The anatomy of the logotype is not well defined which should include information like spacing between glyphs.
The paths used to define the gradients of the lambdas are not well defined and are different.
The clearspace around the logo and logomark is not well defined.
The clearspace around the logo and logomark is not sufficient.
There are no guidelines about sizing and alignment.
There is no variation of the logotype by itself.
There are no guidelines about creating new variations.
There are no guidelines about misuse.

Work towards improvement

To address these issues, I want to improve how we create logos, create a Branding Guide, and create a Media Kit. Before I started any design work, I tried to find a tool that would satisfy my 2 requirements:

I have to be able to design the logo parametrically.
I have to be able to generate SVG files programmatically.

The idea behind the first requirement was that I want to be able to reduce the creation of the logo to a few simple parameters. Additionally, if I can generate the SVG files programmatically, I can programmatically generate the Branding Guide and Media Kit. I'm calling this approach "Branding as Code" (BaC)

I surveyed many FOSS image editing and CAD tools but none of them could satisfy both my requirements. In the end, I decided to create my own tooling in Python. After three months of work the tooling has a lot of capabilities. It can:

Generate a lambda based on 3 parameters: radius, thickness, and gap.
Generate a logomark with different colors and color styles.
Generate a logotype with different colors and styles.
Generate a logo (logomark + logotype) in different layouts.
Generate all three logo products with different clearspace values and meaningfully unique filenames.
Generate dimensioned and annotated SVG files for use in the Branding Guide.

A few example output products are shown below.

All of these efforts - and the ones still underway - are being done to serve the community, which truly deserves to be treated as a mature and important organization. In today’s world, a clear visual identity and coherent narrative are must-haves for any serious project. Meeting the requirements of modern communication and marketing practices isn't about following trends for their own sake; it’s about giving NixOS the tools it needs to thrive and be recognized alongside other respected projects.

We’re taking the steps that are expected - and needed - to ensure the health and growth of the project. Many other communities that invested early in structured branding benefit from easier outreach, clearer communication, and a stronger sense of belonging. On the other hand, projects that neglected this aspect have often faced issues with fragmentation, public confusion, and difficulty attracting new users and contributors. We're choosing the path that sets NixOS up for long-term success, while staying true to the spirit of openness and excellence that defines this community.

There is still much more work to be done including: generating many more annotated drawings for the Branding Guide, creating the Branding Guide, and creating the Media Kit. I would like to thank Ida Bzo, Sebastian Kraus, Ross Turk, and David Nuon for their feedback and assistance throughout this process. This is just the beginning of building a more precise, flexible, and scalable visual identity for the NixOS project.

Daniel Baker
Brand and Design Steward

The NixOS Foundation Board Announced

NixOS — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:00:00 GMT

A New Chapter for the NixOS Foundation

On March 4th, 2025, we welcomed a new NixOS Foundation Board — marking the first-ever board rotation under our newly established constitution. Change is always a big step, but we believe this one is for the better! With clearly defined roles and a more structured approach, the Foundation is set up for success in supporting the Nix & NixOS ecosystem.

Following a thorough selection process, carefully coordinated with the Steering Committee, the new board members are:

President/Chair: Ron Efroni Rotman (continuing role) (@ron)
Secretary: Silvan Mosberger (@infinisil)
Director of Legal Affairs: Ryan Trinkle (@ryantrinkle)
Treasurer: Maximilian Habryka (@lassulus)
Director of Community Support: Sebastian Kraus (@ra33it0)

This team is at the heart of the Foundation’s mission — to strengthen and support the Nix & NixOS community.

A Huge Thank You

To everyone who participated — whether by nominating, giving feedback, or simply showing support—your engagement made this possible. Seeing so many community members step up to contribute has been truly inspiring!

What’s Next?

Legal Handover – The transition process with the KVK in Utrecht is underway.
Onboarding & Operations – In the coming weeks and months, we’ll focus on getting the new board fully onboarded and operational.

Looking forward to an exciting future — together!

NixOS 24.11 released

NixOS — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:00:00 GMT

Hello everyone, we are Tristan Ross and Weijia Wang, the release managers for the newest release of NixOS known as NixOS 24.11 Vicuña. We're glad to announce that after the additional week-long delay that we can deliver this stable release of NixOS.

NixOS is a Linux distribution, whose set of packages can also be used on other Linux systems and macOS.

This release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven months (up until 2025-06-31).

The 24.11 release was made possible due to the efforts of 2669 contributors, who authored 49079 commits since the previous release. Our thanks go the contributors who also take care of the continued stability and security of our stable release.

NixOS is already known as the most up to date distribution while also being the distribution with the most packages. This release saw 8141 new packages and 20975 updated packages in Nixpkgs. We also removed 3970 packages in an effort to keep the package set maintainable and secure. In addition to packages the NixOS distribution also features modules and tests that make it what it is. This release brought 119 new modules and removed 30. In that process we added 1706 options and removed 556.

GNOME 47

GNOME has been updated to version 47 "Denver", which introduces accent colors, small screen support, screen capture hardware encoding, and more changes. Refer to the release notes for more details.

Plasma 6

Plasma has been updated to version 6.2, which introduces many bug fixed and other changes. Refer to the release notes for more details.

Darwin Rework

Emily, Randy Eckenrode, and toonn did an amazing job with their work as the Darwin core maintainers to bring better support for Darwin into Nixpkgs. A comprehensive list of changes can be found on the NixOS Discourse under "The Darwin SDKs have been updated".

C Compilers

LLVM has been updated to version 19 and GCC remains the same version. Tristan Ross made many changes which improves the way we provide multiple versions of LLVM.

Special thanks

We want to personally thank seth and Priyanshu Tripathi for editorializing the release notes, lennart for doing the release logo, Vladimír Čunát for his tireless effort in managing jobsets and staging cycles, Martin Weinelt for dutifully tending to our build infrastructure, and Cole Helbling for his effort on keeping ofBorg running.

Reflections and Closing

We are thankful for everyone who contributed and everyone who was patient for 24.11. It has been a great time working with everyone to make this release possible. We hope everyone is looking forward to the next release, NixOS 25.05 Warbler.

Result for the Nix Steering Committee Election 2024

NixOS — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT

After successfully using CIVS to tally the 450 ballots cast (56% turnout) on OpaVote, We are hereby concluding this election! We congratulate the first members of the Nix Steering Committee (SC) (ordered alphabetically):

@Ericson2314 (2 year term)
@fpletz (1 year term)
@Gabriella439 (2 year term)
@jtojnar (2 year term)
@roberth (2 year term)
@tomberek (1 year term)
@winterqt (1 year term)

This result is certified by all Election Committee members.

For verification purposes, all OpaVote ballots will soon be available here (the result there should be ignored; voters will also get an email), while the CIVS tally to determine the result using the same ballots is already available here. See the new docs for more info on result verification.

We are now establishing communications with the first SC members and will soon make a final handover announcement on behalf of the EC / NCA.

We, the members of the EC / NCA, and Ron from the NixOS Foundation board, are thankful for everybody's participation in this first election, and are looking forward to see the first SC getting started.

Note that you can also read and publicly discuss this announcement on Discourse.

Nix Steering Committee Election 2024

NixOS — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Some links in this post are only accessible to NixOS org members.

As a first step towards a better governance for official Nix projects, we are happy to announce the kick-off of the first Nix Steering Committee election!

The Steering Committee will be the primary community leadership body, responsible for steering the official Nix projects -- organisationally, socially, and technically. This includes making decisions over what is official, managing teams, approving NixOS Foundation policies relevant for the community, being the final escalation point, and more as detailed in the Nix Governance Constitution.

While the Steering Committee is given the authority to make decisions within the scope of its responsibilities directly, it is expected to delegate as much as possible.

Note that you can also read and publicly discuss this announcement on Discourse.

Participating

Automatically eligible voters will be sent an email and be added/invited to the @NixOS/voters-2024 GitHub team. If you're on the GitHub team but have not received an email, make sure to check and optionally update your email address.

If you're neither on the GitHub team nor have received an email, you're likely not automatically eligible. In this case you may consider requesting an exception.

Members of the GitHub team can:

Nominate themselves or others.
Endorse unconfirmed nominees that they'd like to be able to vote for.
Ask questions to nominees as the primary way of engaging with them.

If you have any questions or need support, please get in touch with the Election Committee.

Timeline

2024-09-29 Sun: Deadline for nominations
2024-10-01 Tue: Deadline for endorsements
2024-10-03 Thu: Deadline for candidate questions
2024-10-06 Sun: Deadline for candidate answers, submitting voter exceptions and updating voter email addresses
2024-10-07 Mon: Voting starts
2024-10-20 Sun: Voting ends
2024-10-23 Wed: Results announced

The results are expected to be announced just before NixCon 2024 in Berlin, which starts on 2024-10-25.

Open Letter to the European Commission

NixOS — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Initially published by petites singularités. English translation provided by OW2.

If you want to sign the letter, please re-publish the original letter on your website and add to the list of signatories.

Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part of European Commission's Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism (see for example NLnet's calls). This year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, we notice that Next Generation Internet is not mentioned any more as part of Cluster 4.

NGI programmes have shown their strength and importance to supporting the European software infrastructure, as a generic funding instrument to fund digital commons and ensure their long-term sustainability. We find this transformation incomprehensible, moreover when NGI has proven efficient and economical to support free software as a whole, from the smallest to the most established initiatives. This ecosystem diversity backs the strength of European technological innovation, and maintaining the NGI initiative to provide structural support to software projects at the heart of worldwide innovation is key to enforce the sovereignty of a European infrastructure. Contrary to common perception, technical innovations often originate from European rather than North American programming communities, and are mostly initiated by small-scaled organizations.

Previous Cluster 4 allocated 27 million euros to:

"Human centric Internet aligned with values and principles commonly shared in Europe" ; "A flourishing internet, based on common building blocks created within NGI, that enables better control of our digital life" ;
"A structured ecosystem of talented contributors driving the creation of new internet commons and the evolution of existing internet commons".

In the name of these challenges, more than 500 projects received NGI funding in the first 5 years, backed by 18 organisations managing these European funding consortia.

NGI contributes to a vast ecosystem, as most of its budget is allocated to fund third parties by the means of open calls, to structure commons that cover the whole Internet scope - from hardware to application, operating systems, digital identities or data traffic supervision. This third-party funding is not renewed in the current program, leaving many projects short on resources for research and innovation in Europe.

Moreover, NGI allows exchanges and collaborations across all the Euro zone countries as well as "widening countries" [^1], currently both a success and an ongoing progress, likewise the Erasmus programme before us. NGI also contributes to opening and supporting longer relationships than strict project funding does. It encourages implementing projects funded as pilots, backing collaboration, identification and reuse of common elements across projects, interoperability in identification systems and beyond, and setting up development models that mix diverse scales and types of European funding schemes.

While the USA, China or Russia deploy huge public and private resources to develop software and infrastructure that massively capture private consumer data, the EU can't afford this renunciation. Free and open source software, as supported by NGI since 2020, is by design the opposite of potential vectors for foreign interference. It lets us keep our data local and favors a community-wide economy and know-how, while allowing an international collaboration.

This is all the more essential in the current geopolitical context: the challenge of technological sovereignty is central, and free software allows to address it while acting for peace and sovereignty in the digital world as a whole.

In this perpective, we urge you to claim for preserving the NGI programme as part of the 2025 funding programme.

[^1]: As defined by Horizon Europe, widening Member States are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lituania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Widening associated countries (under condition of an association agreement) include Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Feroe Islands, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldavia, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine. Widening overseas regions are : Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Martinique, Reunion Island, Mayotte, Saint-Martin, The Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands.

NixCon 2024 announced

NixOS — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

We're happy to announce that NixCon 2024, will take place October 25-27 2024 in Berlin For more information, see the NixCon 2024 website. And please consider submitting a talk!

Follow the discussion on discourse: NixCon Announcement, CFP Announcement