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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="release-21.11">
  <title>Release 21.11 (<quote>?</quote>, 2021.11/??)</title>
  <para>
    In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has
    the following highlights:
  </para>
  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Support is planned until the end of April 2022, handing over to
        22.05.
      </para>
    </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
  <section xml:id="highlights">
    <title>Highlights</title>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          PHP now defaults to PHP 8.0, updated from 7.4.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
  <section xml:id="new-services">
    <title>New Services</title>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate">geoipupdate</link>,
          a GeoIP database updater from MaxMind. Available as
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.geoipupdate.enable">services.geoipupdate</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://sr.ht">sourcehut</link>, a
          collection of tools useful for software development. Available
          as
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.sourcehut.enable">services.sourcehut</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
  <section xml:id="backward-incompatibilities">
    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>staticjinja</literal> package has been upgraded
          from 1.0.4 to 2.0.0
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>services.geoip-updater</literal> was broken and has
          been replaced by
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.geoipupdate.enable">services.geoipupdate</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          PHP 7.3 is no longer supported due to upstream not supporting
          this version for the entire lifecycle of the 21.11 release.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Those making use of <literal>buildBazelPackage</literal> will
          need to regenerate the fetch hashes (preferred), or set
          <literal>fetchConfigured = false;</literal>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          fsharp41 has been removed in preference to use the latest
          dotnet-sdk
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
  <section xml:id="other-notable-changes">
    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
    <para>
    </para>
  </section>
</section>