The release of Alpine Linux 3.15 is available, a minimalistic distribution built on the basis of 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 the 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) are prepared in five versions: standard (166 MB), unpatched kernel (184 MB), advanced (689 MB) and for virtual machines (54 MB).
In the new release:
- Added support for disk encryption in the installer.
- Implemented the ability to install third-party kernel modules via AKMS (an analogue of DKMS that rebuilds external kernel modules after updating the kernel package with the distribution kit).
- Initial support for UEFI Secure Boot has been proposed for the x86_64 architecture.
- Delivery of kernel modules in a compressed form (gzip is used) is provided.
- Drivers for Framebuffer have been disabled in the kernel and replaced with the simpledrm driver.
- Removed qt5-qtwebkit and related packages due to development stagnation.
- Support for the MIPS64 port has been dropped (architecture deprecated).
- Updated package versions, including Linux kernel releases 5.15, llvm 12, GNOME 41, KDE Plasma 5.23 / KDE Applications 21.08 / Plasma Mobile Gear 21.10, nodejs 16.13 and 17.0, PostgreSQL 14, OpenLDAP 2.6, ruby ββ3.0, rust 1.56, openjdk 17, kea 2.0, xorg-server 21.1.
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