A new stable release of Alpine linux 3.12 has been released.
Alpine linux is based on the Musl system library and the BusyBox utility set.
The initialization system is OpenRC, and its own apk package manager is used for package management.
In the new release:
- Added initial support for mips64 architecture (big endian).
- Added initial support for the D programming language.
- Python2 is in the process of being completely removed.
- LLVM 10 is now the default.
- Fixes in ncurses (removed ncurses-lib dependency on ncurses-terminfo).
- "Telegram Desktop" added to community repository
Updated package versions:
- Linux 5.4.43, GCC 9.3.0, LLVM 10.0.0, Git 2.24.3, Node.js 12.16.3, Nextcloud 18.0.3, PostgreSQL 12.3, QEMU 5.0.0, Zabbix 5.0.0
Source: linux.org.ru