Alpine Linux 3.22, minimalist distribution based on the Musl library and BusyBox utilities, is now available. The distribution is designed with enhanced security features and includes Stack Smashing Protection (SSP). It employs OpenRC as the initialization system and utilizes its own package manager, apk, for package management. Alpine is used to create official Docker container images and is part of the PostmarketOS project. Bootable ISO images (x86_64, x86, armhf, aarch64, armv7, ppc64le, s390x, riscv64, and loongarch64) are prepared in six variants: standard (240 MB), network boot (268 MB), extended (1 GB), for virtuaalmasinate (64 MB) and for the Xen hypervisor (1 GB).
Uues väljaandes:
- New versions of graphical environments GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, and LXQt 2.2 are offered. The X11 session for KDE has been removed, with support for Wayland retained.
- Package versions have been updated; for instance, releases of Linux kernel 6.12, GCC 14.2.0, LLVM 20, busybox 1.37.0, ISC BIND 9.20, nginx 1.28, Dovecot 2.4, Node.js 22.16, Ruby 3.4, Rust 1.87, Xen 4.20, Crystal 1.16, Docker 28, Go 1.24, PHP 8.4, BIRD 3, Qt 6.8, and wlroots 0.18 are now available.
- The gummiboot bootloader has been replaced with systemd-efistub (only this component, not the entire systemd).
- Preparation for the transition to package manager apk 3 in the next release has been initiated.
- The font for GTK applications has been changed to adwaita, which is used by default in GNOME 48.
- After the shutdown of the Mozilla Location Service project, location services have transitioned to using the BeaconDB database with information on the location of known wireless access points.
- The LXD container management toolkit has been moved from the main repository to the testing one. In the main repository, its fork Incus is now employed instead of LXD.
- Qt 5 has been removed from the repositories, and support for this branch has been discontinued.
Allikas: opennet.ru
