Alpine Linux 3.21 is now available. It is a minimalist distribution built on the Musl system library and the BusyBox utility suite. The distribution has enhanced security requirements and is built with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection). OpenRC is used as the initialization system, and a proprietary apk package manager is used for package management. Alpine is used to generate official Docker container images and is used in the PostmarketOS project. Bootable ISO images (x86_64, x86, armhf, aarch64, armv7, ppc64le, s390x, riscv64, and loongarch64) are available in six flavors: standard (240 MB), network bootable (258 MB), extended (953 MB), and virtual machines (63 MB) and for the Xen hypervisor (1 GB).
In the new release:
- Added initial support for Loongarch64 architecture.
- Packages with new versions of the KDE 6.2, GNOME 47, LXQt 2.1 and Sway 1.10 graphical environments are offered.
- Package versions have been updated, including Linux kernel 6.12, GCC 14, LLVM 19, Node.js 22.11, Rust 1.83, Crystal 1.14, Go 1.23, PHP 8.4, Qt 6.8, .NET 9.0.
Source: opennet.ru
