blog: announce 24.11 release

Author: RossComputerGuy

flake.lock

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     released-nixpkgs-unstable.url = "nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
-    released-nixpkgs-stable.url = "nixpkgs/nixos-24.05";
+    released-nixpkgs-stable.url = "nixpkgs/nixos-24.11";
     released-nix-unstable.url = "github:nixos/nix/master";
     released-nix-stable.url = "github:nixos/nix/latest-release";
     nix-pills.url = "github:NixOS/nix-pills";

flake.nix

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+---
+id: nixos-24.11
+title: NixOS 24.11 released
+date: 2024-11-30T11:00:00.000Z
+category: announcements
+---
+
+[![NixOS 24.11 Vicuña logo](../../../assets/logo/nixos-logo-24.11-vicuna-lores.png)](https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-artwork/blob/master/releases/24.05-vicuna/vicuna.png)
+
+Hello everyone, we are [Tristan Ross](https://github.com/RossComputerguy) and [Weijia Wang](https://github.com/wegank), the release managers for the newest release of NixOS known as NixOS 24.11 Vicuña. We're glad to announce that after the additional week-long delay that we can deliver this stable release of NixOS.
+
+NixOS is a Linux distribution, whose set of packages can also be used on other Linux systems and macOS.
+
+This release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven months (up until 2025-06-31).
+
+- [Release manual](/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes.html#sec-release-24.11)
+  - [Highlights](/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes.html#sec-release-24.11-highlights)
+  - [New Services](/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes.html#sec-release-24.11-new-services)
+  - [Backward Incompatibilities](/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes.html#sec-release-24.11-incompatibilities)
+  - [Other Notable Changes](/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes.html#sec-release-24.11-notable-changes)
+- [Upgrade Instructions](/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#sec-upgrading)
+- [ISO Image Downloads](/download)
+
+The 24.05 release was made possible due to the efforts of **2669** contributors, who authored **49079** commits since the previous release.
+Our thanks go the contributors who also take care of the continued stability and security of our stable release.
+
+NixOS is already known as [the most up to date distribution](https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/newest) while also being [the distribution with the most packages](https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/total). This release saw **8141 new** packages and **20975 updated** packages in Nixpkgs. We also **removed 3970** packages in an effort to keep the package set maintainable and secure.
+In addition to packages the NixOS distribution also features modules and tests that make it what it is. This release brought **119 new** modules and **removed 30**. In that process we **added 1706** options and **removed 556**.
+
+### GNOME 47
+
+GNOME has been updated to version 47 "Denver", which introduces accent colors, small screen support, screen capture hardware encoding, and more changes. Refer to the [release notes](https://release.gnome.org/47/) for more details.
+
+### Plasma 6
+
+Plasma has been updated to version 6.2, which introduces many bug fixed and other changes. Refer to the [release notes](https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.2.3/) for more details.
+
+### Darwin Rework
+
+[Emily](https://github.com/emilazy), [Randy Eckenrode](https://github.com/reckenrode), and [toonn](https://github.com/toonn) did an amazing job with their work as the Darwin core maintainers to bring better support for Darwin into Nixpkgs. A comprehensive list of changes can be found on the NixOS Discourse under ["The Darwin SDKs have been updated"](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-darwin-sdks-have-been-updated/55295).
+
+### C Compilers
+
+LLVM has been updated to version 19 and GCC remains the same version. [Tristan Ross](https://github.com/RossComputerguy) made many changes which improves the way we provide multiple versions of LLVM.
+
+## Special thanks
+
+We want to personally thank [seth](https://github.com/getchoo/) and [Priyanshu Tripathi](https://github.com/GetPsyched) for editorializing the release notes, [lennart](https://github.com/riotbib) for doing the release logo, [Vladimír Čunát](https://github.com/vcunat) for his tireless effort in managing jobsets and staging cycles, [Martin Weinelt](https://github.com/mweinelt) for dutifully tending to our build infrastructure, and [Cole Helbling](https://github.com/cole-h) for his effort on keeping [ofBorg](https://github.com/NixOS/ofborg/) running.
+
+### Reflections and Closing
+
+We are thankful for everyone who contributed and everyone who was patient for 24.11. It has been a great time working with everyone to make this release possible. We hope everyone is looking forward to the next release, NixOS 25.05 Warbler.