NixOS: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for NixOS from NixOS Contributors

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-05-07

What is NixOS?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementNixOS is a Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager, which uses a purely functional approach to software management.The entire operating system configuration is defined declaratively in configuration files, making systems reproducible and easy to roll back.This design allows reliable upgrades, isolated package environments, and consistent deployments across machines.
 

The entire lifecycle of NixOS

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of NixOS. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
NixOS (NixOS Contributors) release, version and end-of-life information
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Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product NixOS (NixOS Contributors)
 

Facts and figures about NixOS

Product
NixOS
Vendor
NixOS Contributors
Latest version
25.11
Number of releases
13
Number of versions
67
Number of unstable versions
31
Number of versions affected by CVE
19
Licence
MIT license
 
 

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