From 7d0e6984c6f8aac8360e1778d39ea2877278a7b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raito Bezarius Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2023 18:20:16 +0100 Subject: rl-2311: explain how dependent packages were removed due to Node.js drop --- nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2311.section.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'nixos/doc') diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2311.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2311.section.md index 1dbc33f2373..c00f60107fc 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2311.section.md +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2311.section.md @@ -547,6 +547,10 @@ The module update takes care of the new config syntax and the data itself (user ## Nixpkgs internals {#sec-release-23.11-nixpkgs-internals} +- Node.js v14, v16 has been removed as they were end of life. Any dependent packages that contributors were not able to reasonably upgrade were dropped after a month of notice to their maintainers, were **removed**. + - This includes VSCode Server. + - This includes Kibana 7 as the ELK stack is unmaintained in nixpkgs and is marked for slow removal. + - The use of `sourceRoot = "source";`, `sourceRoot = "source/subdir";`, and similar lines in package derivations using the default `unpackPhase` is deprecated as it requires `unpackPhase` to always produce a directory named "source". Use `sourceRoot = src.name`, `sourceRoot = "${src.name}/subdir";`, or `setSourceRoot = "sourceRoot=$(echo */subdir)";` or similar instead. - The `django` alias in the python package set was upgraded to Django 4.x. -- cgit 1.4.1