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 ## Highlights {#sec-nixpkgs-release-25.11-highlights}
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-- Added `allowVariants` to gate availability of package sets like `pkgsLLVM`, `pkgsMusl`, `pkgsZig`, etc.
+- Added `allowVariants` to gate availability of package sets like `pkgsLLVM`, `pkgsMusl`, `pkgsZig`, etc. This option will be removed in a future release.
 
 ## Backward Incompatibilities {#sec-nixpkgs-release-25.11-incompatibilities}