Alpine Linux 3.14 has been released, a minimalistic distribution based on the Musl system library and the BusyBox utility set. 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 is used to build official Docker container images. Bootable iso images (x86_64, x86, armhf, aarch64, armv7, ppc64le, s390x, mips64) are prepared in five versions: standard (143 MB), unpatched kernel (155 MB), extended (615 MB) and for virtual machines (45 MB).
Updated package versions in new release, including HAProxy 2.4.0, KDE Apps 21.04.2, nginx 1.20.0, njs 0.5.3 Node.js 14.17.0, KDE Plasma 5.22.0, PostgreSQL 13.3, Python 3.9.5 releases .4.1.0, R 6.0.0, QEMU 5.4.1, Zabbix 5.4.3. Package included with Lua XNUMX.
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