| 17 May 2026 |
 Sandro 🐧 | * might be a little late, but the change itself is very good as nested lists IIRC break cross | 19:43:53 |
 emily | plausible, they don't handle e.g. getDev | 19:44:00 |
| emily | re late, I figure the main deadline for warnings is ~branch-off as they can't break anything by themselves and branch-off is when people might be doing early testing to see if there's any issues they'll need to handle | 19:44:32 |
| emily | but will defer to RMs for sure :) | 19:44:35 |
 yaya | agreed. I leave it up to you to merge :) | 22:37:28 |
| 18 May 2026 |
 h0nig2k | Hi, my 2 cents around the current release: can we have a "26.10.5"-like release next time (preponement of release date)? it is the second release which comes with a week of delay. I highly appreciate NixOS and the release managers, just feedback i can share. For example: consumption of a fresh NixOS start of december / christmas is not nice, given that people are on vacation. In case of delays, the consumption and adoption is becoming hard during christmas. | 13:34:09 |
 hexa | Releases are scheduled in May and November so we have time to land KDE and GNOME updates. | 13:36:22 |
| hexa | see also https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0080-nixos-release-schedule.md | 13:37:40 |
 Sigmanificient | "polished experience for 60,000+ packages" 🥺 | 13:38:23 |
| Sigmanificient | Nixpkgs has grown so much since | 13:38:37 |
| Sigmanificient | 143734 entry in packages.json | 13:39:00 |
 leona | And actually it doesn't come with a week of delay. We schedule for a week before the end of the month so we can release within the month. Here, there a scheduling problems because of the work hydra.nixos.org does. Hopefully we can improve its capacity sometime in the future. | 13:40:48 |
 jopejoe1 | We also explilictly moved the planned a release date some days before the end of the month, so that if some comes up, we would still have a buffer to release it in the month corresponding to the release versikn. | 13:41:02 |
| jopejoe1 | * | 13:41:09 |
| jopejoe1 | * | 13:41:34 |
| leona | There were quite some releases that released in December (the 35th November) ;) | 13:41:38 |
| jopejoe1 | * | 13:41:48 |
| leona | There are some discussions of supporting releases longer, but tbh in the current state of the community and infra we probably cannot do this right now | 13:42:20 |
| emily | it's best to start getting ready for a release during the beta period | 14:05:45 |
| emily | or even pre-deploying it | 14:06:04 |
| hexa | personally, I start migration steps directly after branch-off | 14:06:48 |
| emily | the post-branch-off period is to allow people to get ready and test in advance (and it should also be comparably stable for deployment to the final) | 14:06:46 |
| emily | I don't think anyone likes the delays though :) | 14:07:08 |
| 20 May 2026 |
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| 21 May 2026 |
 vcunat | The last staging-next is in nixpkgs master now. (just for reference; many of you know already) | 10:19:35 |
| vcunat | The big channels will catch up in about a day, I hope. But note that this iteration sadly also contained some breaking changes, as the schedule was a bit tight and didn't align too well. | 10:20:14 |
|  mjolnirchanged room power levels. | 13:12:21 |
| mjolnirchanged room power levels. | 13:12:33 |
| mjolnirchanged room power levels. | 13:13:10 |
