depot/third_party/nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md

Release 21.11 (“?”, 2021.11/??)

In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights:

• Support is planned until the end of April 2022, handing over to 22.05.

Highlights

• PHP now defaults to PHP 8.0, updated from 7.4.

New Services

• geoipupdate, a GeoIP database updater from MaxMind. Available as services.geoipupdate.

Backward Incompatibilities

• The staticjinja package has been upgraded from 1.0.4 to 2.0.0

• services.geoip-updater was broken and has been replaced by services.geoipupdate.

• PHP 7.3 is no longer supported due to upstream not supporting this version for the entire lifecycle of the 21.11 release.

Other Notable Changes