diff --git a/doc/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md b/doc/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md
index 7650b35d5cc7..162332d5a8f7 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@
 
 - Zig 0.12 has been removed.
 
+- `ansible-later` has been removed because it was discontinued by the author.
+
 - `stalwart-mail` since `0.13.0` "introduces a significant redesign of the MTA’s delivery and queueing subsystem". See [the upgrading announcement for the `0.13.0` release](https://github.com/stalwartlabs/stalwart/blob/89b561b5ca1c5a11f2a768b4a2cfef0f473b7a01/UPGRADING.md#upgrading-from-v012x-and-v011x-to-v013x).
 
 - Greetd and its original greeters (`tuigreet`, `gtkgreet`, `qtgreet`, `regreet`, `wlgreet`) were moved from `greetd` namespace to top level (`greetd.tuigreet` -> `tuigreet`, `greetd.greetd` -> `greetd`, etc). The original attrs are available for compatibility as passthrus of `greetd`, but will emit a warning. They will be removed in future releases.
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/an/ansible-later/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/an/ansible-later/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 08012dacdccd..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/an/ansible-later/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  python3Packages,
-  writableTmpDirAsHomeHook,
-}:
-
-python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
-  pname = "ansible-later";
-  version = "4.0.8";
-  pyproject = true;
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "thegeeklab";
-    repo = "ansible-later";
-    tag = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-4ZHCnLeG5gr0UtKQLU+6xnTxUbxnLcmDd51Psnaa42I=";
-  };
-
-  pythonRelaxDeps = [
-    "python-json-logger"
-    "yamllint"
-  ];
-
-  build-system = with python3Packages; [
-    poetry-core
-    poetry-dynamic-versioning
-  ];
-
-  dependencies = with python3Packages; [
-    pyyaml
-    ansible-core
-    ansible
-    anyconfig
-    appdirs
-    colorama
-    jsonschema
-    nested-lookup
-    pathspec
-    python-json-logger
-    toolz
-    unidiff
-    yamllint
-  ];
-
-  nativeCheckInputs = with python3Packages; [
-    pytest-cov-stub
-    pytest-mock
-    pytestCheckHook
-    writableTmpDirAsHomeHook
-  ];
-
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "ansiblelater" ];
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Best practice scanner for Ansible roles and playbooks";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/thegeeklab/ansible-later";
-    changelog = "https://github.com/thegeeklab/ansible-later/releases/tag/${src.tag}";
-    license = lib.licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ tboerger ];
-    mainProgram = "ansible-later";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 8263260bc55c..fe673b7b93af 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ mapAliases {
   animeko = throw "'animeko' has been removed since it is unmaintained"; # Added 2025-08-20
   ansible_2_14 = throw "Ansible 2.14 goes end of life in 2024/05 and can't be supported throughout the 24.05 release cycle"; # Added 2024-04-11
   ansible_2_15 = throw "Ansible 2.15 goes end of life in 2024/11 and can't be supported throughout the 24.11 release cycle"; # Added 2024-11-08
+  ansible-later = throw "ansible-later has been discontinued. The author recommends switching to ansible-lint"; # Added 2025-08-24
   antennas = throw "antennas has been removed as it only works with tvheadend, which nobody was willing to maintain and was stuck on an unmaintained version that required FFmpeg 4; please see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/332259 if you are interested in maintaining a newer version"; # Added 2024-08-21
   androidndkPkgs_21 = throw "androidndkPkgs_21 has been removed, as it is EOL"; # Added 2025-08-09
   androidndkPkgs_23 = throw "androidndkPkgs_23 has been removed, as it is EOL"; # Added 2025-08-09
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 5c035de23c1f..fdb38432f1dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ mapAliases ({
   amiibo-py = throw "amiibo-py has been removed because the upstream repository was removed"; # Added 2025-01-13
   ansible-base = throw "ansible-base has been removed, because it is end of life"; # added 2022-03-30
   ansible-doctor = throw "ansible-doctor has been promoted to a top-level attribute name: `pkgs.ansible-doctor`"; # Added 2023-05-16
-  ansible-later = throw "ansible-later has been promoted to a top-level attribute name: `pkgs.ansible-later`"; # Added 2023-05-16
   ansible-lint = throw "ansible-lint has been promoted to a top-level attribute name: `pkgs.ansible-lint`"; # Added 2023-05-16
   ansible-navigator = throw "ansible-navigator has been promoted to a top-level attribute name: pkgs.ansible-navigator"; # Added 2024-08-07
   anyjson = throw "anyjson has been removed, it was using setuptools 2to3 translation feature, which has been removed in setuptools 58"; # added 2022-01-18