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NixOS 25.11 "Xantusia" Ships with GNOME 49, Linux kernel 6.17 (linuxiac.com)
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Six months after the previous 25.05 “Warbler” release, the new stable version, NixOS 25.05 “Xantusia,” is officially here. Targeted at advanced users and developers, NixOS bets on an immutable design and an atomic update model, emphasizing reproducibility and reliability with the Nix package manager.

Nixpkgs adds 7,002 new packages and updates 25,252 existing entries. A cleanup effort removed 6,338 outdated packages to keep the repository manageable and secure. On the NixOS side, the release introduces 107 new modules, adds 1,778 configuration options, and removes older, unused components.

The desktop stack is updated to GNOME 49. This version ends X11 session availability, includes a new video player and document viewer, and ships a redesigned calendar application. Other applications across the GNOME suite receive updates as part of the regular upstream cycle.

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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

NixOS "ships with" whatever exists in nixpkgs. So you could read this as "nixpkgs channel 25.11 ships GNOME 49".

And you can see that is true, here: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.11&show=gnome-shell&query=gnome-shell

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I guess that was my point. It ships with whatever has been packaged up to now, and there is no "default" NixOS anything, not even the display manager.