Release of the minimalist distribution kit Alpine Linux 3.12

Took place Release Alpine Linux 3.12, a minimalistic distribution built on the basis of the system library musl and a set of utilities BusyBox. The distribution is distinguished by increased security requirements and is built with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection) protection. OpenRC is used as an initialization system, and its own apk package manager is used for package management. Alpine applies to build official Docker container images. Boot iso images (x86_64, x86, armhf, aarch64, armv7, ppc64le, s390x, mips64) are prepared in five versions: standard (130 MB), unpatched kernel (140 MB), advanced (500 MB) and for virtual machines (40 MB) .

In the new release:

• Added initial support for mips64 architecture (big endian);
• Added initial programming language support D;
• Updated package versions: Linux kernel 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: opennet.ru