diff --git a/doc/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md b/doc/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md
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--- a/doc/release-notes/rl-2511.section.md
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@@ -16,6 +16,16 @@
   If a newer C++ library feature is not available on the default deployment target, you will need to increase the deployment target.
   See the Darwin platform documentation for more details.
 
+- A great number of changes to CUDA packaging:
+  - CUDA 13 is now available.
+  - Creation of CUDA package sets has been rewritten to remove module system evaluation.
+  - More packages provided by NVIDIA as binary archives (also called redistributables) are now available.
+  - Packages which fail to evaluate and depend on CUDA packages can produce helpful diagnostic messages during evaluation when `--show-trace --trace-verbose` are used.
+  - Package expressions are being updated to support building against older releases (where appropriate) to support out-of-tree consumers like [cuda-legacy](https://github.com/nixos-cuda/cuda-legacy).
+  - `_cuda.lib.licenses` was created to introduce several NVIDIA licenses new to Nixpkgs and used almost entirely within the CUDA package set.
+  - `_cuda.lib.getRedistSystem` had an API change to accommodate a new dependency on CUDA version.
+  - Many members of the CUDA package set are now marked as broken if [`config.cudaSupport`](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#opt-cudaSupport) is not set. This change was made to prevent the common mistake of using CUDA tooling to build a CUDA application but forgetting to enable [`config.cudaSupport`](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#opt-cudaSupport), resulting in an application which supports CUDA and dependencies which do not.
+
 - LLVM has been updated from 19 to 21.
 
 ## Backward Incompatibilities {#sec-nixpkgs-release-25.11-incompatibilities}
@@ -106,6 +116,10 @@
 
 - `cudaPackages.cudatoolkit-legacy-runfile` has been removed.
 
+- `_cuda.lib.getRedistSystem` had an API change to accommodate a new dependency on CUDA version.
+
+- Many members of the CUDA package set are now marked as broken if [`config.cudaSupport`](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#opt-cudaSupport) is not set. This change was made to prevent the common mistake of using CUDA tooling to build a CUDA application but forgetting to enable [`config.cudaSupport`](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#opt-cudaSupport), resulting in an application which supports CUDA and dependencies which do not.
+
 - `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.
 
 - `asciidoctor-with-extension` had its `asciidoctor-mathematical` extension removed, because it fails to build, and it is not maintained properly.