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 - `forgejo` main program has been renamed to `bin/forgejo` from the previous `bin/gitea`.
 
+- the "pie" hardening flag has been removed. compilers are expected to enable PIE by default, as has been common practice since 2016 outside of nixpkgs. If a package needs "pie" disabled pass `-no-pie` in `CFLAGS`. It is unlikely this will be necessary in many cases; due to the prevalance of default PIE toolchains most packages incompatible with PIE already pass no-pie.
+
 - `cudaPackages.cudatoolkit-legacy-runfile` has been removed.
 
 - `conduwuit` was removed due to upstream ceasing development and deleting their repository. For existing data, a migration to `matrix-conduit`, `matrix-continuwuity` or `matrix-tuwunel` may be possible.