[2511.7.1] Xenogenic Xantusia

[nzbr]

Patch Notes

There are no known breaking changes in this release. The clock inside the WSL VM should now stay synchronized to the Windows host's clock correctly.

Updating

This only applies if you are updating from NixOS 25.05 to 25.11. The following assumes, that you have already performed the steps outlined in the 2505.7.0 release.

1. Set the new channel URLs

sudo nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-25.11 nixos
sudo nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL/archive/refs/heads/release-25.11.tar.gz nixos-wsl

2. Update the channels and rebuild your system configuration

sudo nix-channel --update
sudo nixos-rebuild switch

Changelog

🛠️ General Changes

• refactor: make .wsl file pass Microsoft's validation script (refactor: make .wsl file pass Microsoft's validation script #740) @nzbr

🚀 Features

• feat(tarball-builder): add --extra-files and --chown parameters (feat(tarball-builder): add --extra-files and --chown parameters #752) @karaolidis
• feat: set up chrony for clock adjustment (feat: set up chrony for clock adjustment #821) @K900
  • fix: remove NTP servers by default (fix: remove NTP servers by default #855) @David-Moody

🪲 Bugfixes

• fix: escape shell arguments in wsl-distro bin helpers (fix: escape shell arguments in wsl-distro bin helpers #848) @hatch01

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This discussion was created from the release [2511.7.1] Xenogenic Xantusia.

[malik-n]

When only using flakes nothing needs to be done?

[nzbr]

If you're using unstable, just update. If you're on a release version, update the input for nixpkgs and NixOS-WSL to the nixos-25.11 and release-25.11 branches respectively