available release alpine linux 3.17 , a minimalistic distribution built on the basis of the MUSL system library and the Busybox recruitment. The distribution is characterized by increased safety requirements and collected with SSP protection (Stack Smashing Protection). OpenRC is used as an initialization system, APK has its own package manager to control packages. Alpine is used to form official Docker containers. Loading ISO-images (x86_64, x86, ARMHF, AARCH64, ARMV7, PPC64le, S390X) Prepared in five versions: standard (166 MB), with a core without patches (170 MB), expanded (774 MB) and for virtual machines (49 MB).
in new issue :
- Updated versions of packages, among other things, the issues of Bash 5.2, GCC 12, KEA 2.2, LLVM 15, Openssl 3.0, Perl 5.36, PostgreSQL 15, Node.js 18.12 and 19.1, Ceph 17.2, Gnome 43, GNO 1.19, KDE Plasma are updated. 5.26, Rust 1.64, .NET 7.0.100.
- by default, the OpenSSL 3.0 library branch is involved (the Openssl 1.1 branch remained available for installation in the form of the OpenSSL1.1-Compat package).
- prepared packages with Rust for all supported architectures.
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