Small. Simple. Secure. Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

Alpine Linux 3.6.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.6.0, the first in the v3.6 stable series.

New features and noteworthy new packages

Support for 64-bit little-endian POWER machines (ppc64le)

Support for 64-bit IBM z Systems (s390x)

Rust 1.17.0 and Cargo 0.18.0

GHC 8.0.2

Julia 0.5.2

Significant updates

GCC 6.3

LLVM 4.0

PHP 7.1

Go 1.8

Python 3.6

LuaJIT 2.1beta3

nginx 1.12

Ruby 2.4

Noteworthy changes

The llvm package has been changed to be provided by a versioned llvm<X> package, which is presently llvm4 ;

package has been changed to be provided by a versioned package, which is presently ; The -grsec kernel-related packages have been renamed to -hardened ;

Development-related changes

MD5 and SHA-1 hashes have been removed from APKBUILDs, being obsoleted by SHA-512;

set -e is now implied in APKBUILDs, automatically failing the build upon unhandled failing commands;

is now implied in APKBUILDs, automatically failing the build upon unhandled failing commands; A check() function has been added to APKBUILDs that allows packages to run test suites after build() , ensuring no regressions have occurred. This has been implemented for a number of packages, and policy onward will be to have them either be present or explicitly opted-out of with good reasoning;

Credits

Thanks to everyone sending in patches, bug reports, new and updated aports

Thanks to GIGABYTE, Scaleway, Fastly, IBM, Packet, and vpsFree for providing us with hardware and hosting.

The full list of changes can be found in the git log and bug tracker.

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