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@@ -648,6 +648,55 @@ auth required pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 1000 quiet
        <xref linkend="opt-environment.systemPackages"/>.
      </para>
    </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     <package>nextcloud</package> has been updated to <literal>v18.0.2</literal>. This means
+     that users from NixOS 19.09 can't upgrade directly since you can only move one version
+      forward and 19.09 uses <literal>v16.0.8</literal>.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     To provide a safe upgrade-path and to circumvent similar issues in the future, the following
+     measures were taken:
+     <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        The <package>pkgs.nextcloud</package>-attribute has been removed and replaced with
+        versioned attributes (currently <package>pkgs.nextcloud17</package> and
+        <package>pkgs.nextcloud18</package>). With this change major-releases can be backported
+        without breaking stuff and to make upgrade-paths easier.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        Existing setups will be detected using
+        <link linkend="opt-system.stateVersion">system.stateVersion</link>: by default,
+        <package>nextcloud17</package> will be used, but will raise a warning which notes
+        that after that deploy it's recommended to update to the latest stable version
+        (<package>nextcloud18</package>) by declaring the newly introduced setting
+        <link linkend="opt-services.nextcloud.package">services.nextcloud.package</link>.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        Users with an overlay (e.g. to use <package>nextcloud</package> at version
+        <literal>v18</literal> on <literal>19.09</literal>) will get an evaluation error
+        by default. This is done to ensure that our
+        <link linkend="opt-services.nextcloud.package">package</link>-option doesn't select an
+        older version by accident. It's recommended to use <package>pkgs.nextcloud18</package>
+        or to set <link linkend="opt-services.nextcloud.package">package</link> to
+        <package>pkgs.nextcloud</package> explicitly.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+     </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+    <warning>
+     <para>
+      Please note that if you're comming from <literal>19.03</literal> or older, you have
+      to manually upgrade to <literal>19.09</literal> first to upgrade your server
+      to Nextcloud v16.
+     </para>
+    </warning>
+   </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </section>