NixOS 26.05 Yarara — Modernised Boot, Package Refresh & Reproducible Upgrades
NixOS 26.05 Yarara — Modernised Boot, Package Refresh & Reproducible Upgrades Table of contents:- What’s new and why it matters Desktop, toolchain and platform notes Getting started, installation and community support NixOS 26.05 “Yarara” modernises early boot with systemd, refreshes thousands of packages and modules, and continues Nix’s reproducible, declarative approach — a release aimed at stability, maintainability and clearer upgrade paths. What’s new and why it matters NixOS 26.05 , codenamed Yarara , was published at the end of May 2026 and will receive bugfixes and security updates through 31 December 2026 . The release is the product of a large community effort and a substantial churn in the package set: tens of thousands of package changes and thousands of configuration updates were applied to keep the ecosystem secure and maintainable. The headline technical change is that Stage 1 (the initrd) now uses systemd by default ; the older scripted initrd is deprecate...
