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@@ -247,6 +247,47 @@ $TTL 1800
     </programlisting>
   </listitem>
 
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+    <literal>service.syncthing.dataDir</literal> options now has to point
+    to exact folder where syncthing is writing to. Example configuration should
+    loook something like:
+    </para>
+    <programlisting>
+services.syncthing = {
+    enable = true;
+    dataDir = "/home/somebody/.syncthing";
+    user = "somebody";
+};
+    </programlisting>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      <literal>networking.firewall.allowPing</literal> is now enabled by
+      default. Users are encourarged to configure an approiate rate limit for
+      their machines using the Kernel interface at
+      <filename>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ratelimit</filename> and
+      <filename>/proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/ratelimit</filename> or using the
+      firewall itself, i.e. by setting the NixOS option
+      <literal>networking.firewall.pingLimit</literal>.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      Systems with some broadcom cards used to result into a generated config
+      that is no longer accepted. If you get errors like
+      <screen>error: path ‘/nix/store/*-broadcom-sta-*’ does not exist and cannot be created</screen>
+      you should either re-run <command>nixos-generate-config</command> or manually replace
+      <literal>"${config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom_sta}"</literal>
+      by
+      <literal>config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom_sta</literal>
+      in your <filename>/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix</filename>.
+      More discussion is on <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12595">
+      the github issue</link>.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
 </itemizedlist>