Alpine Linux 3.18.0: What's new with this recent release?
This month of May 2023, there is a level of releases of new versions of GNU/Linux Distributions It has been somewhat calm compared to other months. During the first 12 days there have been few releases detected, however, one that stands out among few is, the release announcement of the most recent update of the Alpine Linux Distro, to which we recently dedicated a complete article. Since, despite the great characteristics and attributes of it, we have not addressed it much, but surely from now on we will be more aware of it.
For this reason, and along the same lines, today we will discuss the news announced by the Alpine development team, for its new version "Alpine Linux 3.18.0", which is a bug fix release. Which was released a few days ago (May 05), after 6 months after its previous released version (Alpine 3.17.0), which was a release of security fixes.
Alpine: A Linux Distro That Shows That Not Everything Is GNU
But, before starting reading this post about the news from "Alpine Linux 3.18.0", we recommend the previous related post, to explore at the end of reading this present publication:
Alpine Linux 3.18.0: Bug Fix Released
What's New in Alpine Linux 3.18.0
According to official announcement From this new release we can highlight among many new features (changes, improvements and corrections) the following:
- Offers up-to-date Desktop Environments: GNOME 44 and KDE Plasma 5.27
- Add experimental support: For unattended installations via Tiny Cloud.
- Includes updated packages and components: Kernel Linux 6.1, Musl libc 1.2.4, Python 3.11, Ruby 3.2, Node.js (current) 20.1, Go 1.20 and Rust 1.69.
Finally, it is worth noting that, among the significant changes that are now present it is worth mentioning the fact that, Nowkernel modules are signed. And what, heVerified modules are not applied by default, so third-party modules with akms they still work.
Also, tall packages for ppc64le, x86 and x86_64 architectures they linked up with DT_RELR. Which is beneficial, since it tends to reduce the size of compiled binaries. And Python precompiled (pyc) files are now shipped in separate packages, so it's now possible to avoid installing them and save space by running the command command apk add !pyc.
If you have not tried this Linux Distribution yet, you can download it in its various editions and formats clicking here. Whereas, to learn more about its installation and usage, you can explore the following link.
Alpine Linux is a stand-alone, non-commercial, general-purpose Linux Distro designed for advanced users who appreciate security, simplicity, and resource efficiency. Consequently, it is a security-oriented, ultralight Linux-based operating system whose software is compiled using Musl instead of the GNU C library (Libc) and implements OpenRC as the boot system. Furthermore, it replaces the GNU tools with Busybox, which is a single executable capable of emulating the operation of all of them. What is Alpine Linux?
Summary
In short, this Distro and its development team with this new release of "Alpine Linux 3.18.0" continues its solid and progressive improvement in favor of its regular users of its community, which are characterized by using alternative free and open operating systems that offer good and interesting alternatives to GNU programs and bootloaders based on Systemd/SysVinit, among other notable things. And in case you are already using Alpine Linux or its current new version, we invite you to tell us your opinion about these news and your general experience with it, via comments.
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