The release of Alpine Linux 3.17 is available, a minimalist distribution built on the Musl system library and the BusyBox utility set. The distribution features enhanced security requirements and is built with Stack Smashing Protection (SSP). OpenRC is used as the initialization system, and its package manager apk is utilized for package management. Alpine is used for creating official Docker container images. Bootable iso images (x86_64, x86, armhf, aarch64, armv7, ppc64le, s390x) are prepared in five variants: standard (166 MB), with an unpatched kernel (170 MB), extended (774 MB), and for of virtual machines (49 MB).
In the new release:
- Updated versions of packages, including releases of bash 5.2, GCC 12, Kea 2.2, LLVM 15, OpenSSL 3.0, Perl 5.36, PostgreSQL 15, Node.js 18.12 and 19.1, Ceph 17.2, GNOME 43, Go 1.19, KDE Plasma 5.26, Rust 1.64, .NET 7.0.100.
- By default, the OpenSSL 3.0 branch is used (the OpenSSL 1.1 branch remains available for installation as the openssl1.1-compat package).
- Packages with the Rust language have been prepared for all supported architectures.
Source: opennet.ru
