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

Alpine 3.5.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.5.0, the first in the v3.5 stable series.

New features and noteworthy changes

Switch from OpenSSL to LibreSSL

Support for aarch64 (uboot only for now)

Support for ZFS as root

PostgreSQL update to 9.6.x. See the PostgreSQL documentation for upgrade instructions

Samba 4.5.3

GTK+3.0 3.22.5

glib 2.50.2

Support for R, JRuby and OCaml

Better python3 support

The nodejs package was renamed to nodejs-current and moved to the community repository. The nodejs-lts package was renamed to nodejs. This means that you get the LTS version if you do apk add nodejs .

Desktop applications that have been upgraded in v3.5 include:

xorg-server 1.18.4

libreoffice 5.2.3.3

Credits

Thanks GIGABYTE for donating two ARM buildservers (xgene and thunderx platforms).

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

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

Commit statistics

5742 commits made by 133 contributors

1711 Natanael Copa 1036 Francesco Colista 710 Jakub Jirutka 486 Carlo Landmeter 308 Timo Teräs 272 Sören Tempel 192 Leonardo Arena 117 Bartłomiej Piotrowski 104 Daniel Sabogal 83 Fabian Affolter 77 Stuart Cardall 61 Christian Kampka 51 Przemyslaw Pawelczyk 36 Stefan Wagner 36 Kaarle Ritvanen 30 ScrumpyJack 30 Andy Postnikov 29 Olivier Mauras 22 7heo 18 Gennady Feldman 17 Michael Koloberdin 17 Anil Madhavapeddy 17 Laurent Bercot 17 Thomas Boerger 16 Nathan Johnson 11 AmatCoder 11 Kevin Daudt 10 Jann – Ove Risvik 10 Mark Riedesel 10 Valery Kartel 10 Michael Jeanson 8 Aaron Hurt 6 Ted Trask 6 liqa 6 Jose-Luis Rivas 6 Nick Andrew 6 Danilo Falcão 5 Nathan Angelacos 5 Corentin Henry 4 Matthieu MONNIER 4 Jon Ong 4 Ben Allen 4 Łukasz Jendrysik 3 Ed Robinson 3 Marc Vertes 3 Klemens Nanni 3 Tuan M. Hoang 3 Bennett Goble 3 Roland Kammerer 3 André Klitzing 3 Marian Buschsieweke 2 Mitch Tishmack 2 Corey Oliver 2 Paul Morgan 2 Chris Leishman 2 Ben Reichert 2 Austin Page 2 mellotron 2 Henrik Riomar 2 Pierre Jaury 2 Francesco Zanini 2 Fabio Napoleoni 2 Johannes Matheis 2 Sergey Lukin 2 Linus Swälas 2 Marlus Saraiva 2 stf 2 Will Jordan 1 Jupp Müller 1 Jérémy Derussé 1 John Coyle 1 John Galt 1 Jonny Tyers 1 JSurf 1 Jan Pobrislo 1 Jean-Baptiste Guerraz 1 Gus Monod 1 I mostly migrate stuff to GoGS 1 Fabian Ruff 1 Ian Campbell 1 Johannes Findeisen 1 Keegan Carruthers-Smith 1 Diego Queiroz 1 Denis Ryabyy 1 ENA APK Build User 1 Emily Ingalls 1 Dave Hall 1 David Huffman 1 Daniel Coonce 1 Daniel Treadwell 1 Mikolaj Chwalisz 1 Mikhail Ivko 1 Max Claus Nunes 1 Michael Zhou 1 Marvin Steadfast 1 Linux User 1 Luke Petre 1 Kyle Parisi 1 Lance Chen 1 Maartje Eyskens 1 Matt Dainty 1 Pelle Bo Regener 1 Nathan Caldwell 1 Raphael Cohn 1 Sander Maijers 1 Roy Storey 1 Ramanathan Sivagurunathan 1 Shiz 1 David Scott 1 Emmanuel Blot 1 Camille Scholtz 1 Bjoern Schilberg 1 Brad Fritz 1 Antoine Tenart 1 Ashley Sommer 1 Andrew Hsu 1 Aji Kisworo Mukti 1 Aaron Jensen 1 Aleksi Johansson 1 Bascht 1 Cliff Free 1 Steeve Chailloux 1 andypost 1 Yura Kushnir 1 albap 1 jakab.kristof@balasys.hu 1 Thiébaud Weksteen 1 lemon 1 rob dux 1 tang0th 1 w1r0x 1 yzlin 1 midipix