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

Alpine Linux 3.7.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.7.0, the first in the v3.7 stable series.

New features and noteworthy new packages

Support for EFI;

Support in the installer for the GRUB bootloader

Significant updates

GCC 6.4

LLVM 5.0

Go 1.9

Node.js 8.9 (LTS)

Perl 5.26

PostgreSQL 10

Rust 1.22

Credits

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

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

Changes

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

Commit statistics

1547 Natanael Copa 623 Jakub Jirutka 591 Francesco Colista 584 Roberto Oliveira 272 Timo Teräs 261 Leonardo Arena 237 Sören Tempel 212 A. Wilcox 204 William Pitcock 165 tmpfile 161 André Klitzing 154 Carlo Landmeter 149 Fabian Affolter 81 Kaarle Ritvanen 80 TBK 69 Stuart Cardall 58 Daniel Sabogal 45 Valery Kartel 30 Andy Postnikov 28 Daniel Isaksen 23 Carlo Landmeter 21 Henrik Riomar 19 Bradley J Chambers 19 Jean-Louis Fuchs 18 Marian Buschsieweke 14 Leo Unglaub 13 Jason A. Donenfeld 13 Cág 13 Clayton Craft 12 Laurent Bercot 11 Mitch Tishmack 11 Ed Robinson 10 Marc Vertes 10 Thomas Boerger 10 gmile 9 Ivan Tham 9 Michael Truog 8 Taner Tas 8 Ole-Martin Bratteng 8 Łukasz Jendrysik 7 Christine Dodrill 7 Roland Kammerer 7 xentec 6 Dave Henderson 6 Marvin Steadfast 6 Steve McMaster 6 Andy Li 5 Kevin Daudt 5 Ted Trask 5 Tim Brust 5 midipix 5 Marat Safin 5 Shiz 5 Gennady Feldman 5 Francesco Colista 4 Dave Hall 4 Tycho Andersen 4 Arch3y 4 Kiyoshi Aman 4 Oliver Smith 4 François Chavant 4 Renoir Boulanger 4 Pelle Bo Regener 4 dawidd6 4 Paul Morgan 3 Governikus 3 Elias Werberich 3 Stefan Wagner 3 Sergey Safarov 3 Breno Leitao 3 Linux User 3 Lyndon 3 André Bierwolf 3 David Lutterkort 2 sroracle 2 khanku 2 opendata26 2 null 2 Sergey Sadovoi 2 Ben Allen 2 Bennett Goble 2 Bart Ribbers 2 Andreas Schipplock 2 Alexander Georgievskiy 2 Jack Schmidt 2 Adeel 2 Alex Laskin 2 Takuya Noguchi 2 Matthieu Monnier 2 Lucas Ramage 2 Nils Andreas Svee 2 NHellFire 2 Nathan Angelacos 2 Joe Groocock 2 Nathan Rennie-Waldock 2 Michael Pirogov 1 Luca Weiss 1 Lex Scarisbrick 1 Marcel Hernandez 1 Konstantin Khokhlov 1 Kohei Takahashi 1 Johan Bergström 1 Mike Milner 1 Nathan Johnson 1 NeKit 1 Nick Andrew 1 Michael Koloberdin 1 Jonny Tyers 1 Jan Tatje 1 Jared Szechy 1 Hinata Yanagi 1 Ian Bashford 1 H 1 Gabriele Santomaggio 1 Henrik Holst 1 Igor Kuznetsov 1 Frank Felhoffer 1 Fusl 1 Emily Ingalls 1 Fabian Mueller-Knapp 1 Ed Robinson 1 Douglas Campos 1 Dawid Dziurla 1 Fernando Casas Schössow 1 GP Orcullo 1 Daniel Coonce 1 Chingis 1 Christophe BERAUD-DUFOUR 1 Breno 1 Casper Ti. Vector 1 Bart Ribbers 1 Assaf Gordon 1 Ash Berlin 1 Bobby Bingham 1 Andy Chu 1 Aiden Nibali 1 Adrian Pistol 1 Aleksey Mikhaylov 1 Adam Ruzicka 1 7heo 1 A. Wilcox 1 Steffen (Daode) Nurpmeso 1 Shatil Rafiullah 1 Simon Frankenberger 1 Tim Brust 1 Tuan M. Hoang 1 Trevor 1 Viktor Tusa 1 Vitaly Aminev 1 Ricardo Salveti 1 Rich Felker 1 Rodrigo Mosconi 1 PureTryOut 1 Przemyslaw Pawelczyk 1 Rafael del Valle 1 Peter Kokot 1 Peter Dave Hello 1 Pieter Lange 1 Rajiv Ranganath 1 SuHun Han 1 William Johansson 1 blattersturm 1 mepholic 1 khanku 1 allangarret 1 Yamagishi Kazutoshi 1 _spOOn_ 1 benoitm974 1 pawciobiel 1 sharukins 1 stf 1 xming