GoKawiilHey everyone, we are yayayayaka and jopejoe1, the release managers of the newest release of NixOS. We are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 26.05 “Yarara”.
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 2026-12-31). The old release 25.11 “Xantusia” is now officially deprecated and will reach its end-of-life and stop receiving security updates after 2026-06-30.
The 26.05 release was made possible due to the efforts of 2842 contributors, who authored 59703 commits since the previous release.
Highlights
Our vast and routinely maintained set of packages has also been updated. This release of Nixpkgs
Added 20442 new packages
Updated 20641 existing packages
Removed 17532 outdated packages, in an effort to keep the package set maintainable and secure.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
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