The release of Alpine Linux 3.17 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 (170 MB), advanced (774 MB) and for virtual machines (49 MB).
In the new release:
- Updated package versions, including 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 branch of the OpenSSL 3.0 library is enabled (the OpenSSL 1.1 branch remains available for installation in the form of the openssl1.1-compat package).
- Rust packages have been prepared for all supported architectures.
Source: opennet.ru