Alpine Linux is an open source Linux-based operating system that provides users with a server-oriented secure computing environment. It is lightweight, small and simple Linux distribution built on top of the Busybox and musl software packages.
Distributed in multiple editions
The project is distributed in multiple editions, each one with its own purpose and abilities. The main edition is called Alpine Linux Standard, it includes some of the most commonly used packages and it is geared towards servers and routers that run directly from RAM (system memory). The second edition is called Alpine Linux Mini and it’s actually a minimal version of Alpine Linux Standard. It comes with only some basic packages and can be to install the operating system from network.
The third edition is called Alpine Linux VServer and includes only Vserver host packages. Network professionals can use this Alpine flavor to deploy VServer hosts that run directly from RAM. It can also be installed to a local disk drive. Lastly, the Alpine Linux Xen edition provides users with a Xen Dom0 Live CD and Xen packages. It is supported only on 64-bit hardware platforms.
Supports 32-bit and 64-bit architectures
As mentioned, the project provides users with multiple editions distributed as Live CD ISO images and supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Alpine Linux's network configuration is similar to Debian's, but those of you who used a BusyBox-based operating system before should have no problem working with this distro.
The Alpine Linux developers have contributed a number of enhancements to BusyBox, in order to make the operating system run like any other. Keep in mind, though, that it doesn’t have a graphical environment.
Bottom line
Whether you use it to deploy your own server or router, VServer hosts and Xen-powered domain zero environments, Alpine is always here to help you. It can also be used to deploy a feature-rich ownCloud server.
What is new in this release:
- NEW FEATURES AND NOTEWORTHY NEW PACKAGES:
- Support netboot on all architectures
- Add arm64 (aarch64) Raspberry Pi image
- Add support for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
- Support ISO image on s390x (KVM installation)
- End of support for hardened kernel (unofficial Grsecurity)
- Support for Crystal language
- SIGNIFICANT UPDATES:
- Linux 4.14
- Go 1.10
- Node.js 8.11 (LTS)
- Rust 1.26
- Ruby 2.5
- PHP 7.2
- ghc 8.4
- OCaml 4.06
- R 3.5
- JRuby 9.2
What is new in version 3.7.0:
- NEW FEATURES AND NOTEWORTHY NEW PACKAGES:
- Support for EFI;
- Support in the installer for the GRUB bootloader
- SIGNIFICANT UPDATE:
- GCC 6.4
- LLVM 5.0
- Go 1.9
- Node.js 8.9 (LTS)
- Perl 5.26
- PostgreSQL 10
- Rust 1.22
What is new in version 3.6.2:
- This is a bugfix release of the v3.6 musl based branch, based on linux-4.9.30 kernels and it contains bugfixes.
What is new in version 3.5.2:
- This is a bugfix release of the v3.5 musl based branch, based on linux-4.4.52 kernels and it contains bugfixes.
What is new in version 3.5.1:
- 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
What is new in version 3.5.0:
- 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
What is new in version 3.4.6:
- This is a bugfix release of the v3.4 musl based branch, based on linux-4.4.30 kernels and it contains important security fixes for the kernel.
What is new in version 3.4.5:
- This is a bugfix release of the v3.4 musl based branch, based on linux-4.4.27 kernels and it contains important security fixes for the kernel and for musl libc.
What is new in version 3.4.4:
- This is a bugfix release of the v3.4 musl based branch, based on linux-4.4.22 kernels.
What is new in version 3.4.3:
- This is a bugfix release of the v3.4 musl based branch, based on linux-4.4.17 kernels.
What is new in version 3.4.1:
- Bartlomiej Piotrowski (2):
- main/nginx: upgrade to 1.10.1 (CVE-2016-4450)
- main/nginx-lua: remove, merged with main/nginx
- Carlo Landmeter (1):
- community/claws-mail: rebuild against libetpan
- Francesco Colista (1):
- main/libnet: fixed correct detection of link-layer method
- Jakub Jirutka (4):
- travis: disable email notifications
- main/qemu-openrc: upgrade to 0.4.1
- main/qemu: fix chown/chmod for qemu-bridge-helper and gid of qemu group
- main/busybox-initscripts: fix tun/tap, change their group to netdev
- Kaarle Ritvanen (2):
- main/zabbix: upgrade to 3.0.3
- main/py-django: upgrade to 1.8.12
- Leonardo Arena (7):
- main/owncloud: update contacts to 0.0.0.91. Fixes #5702
- main/php5-pear-auth_sasl: new aport
- main/roundcubemail: fix depends
- main/roundcubemail: fix typo
- main/vlc: security upgrade to 2.2.4 (CVE-2016-5108). Fixes #5715
- community/drupal7: security upgrade to 7.44. Fixes #5746
- main/xen: security upgrade to 4.6.3. Fixes #5775
- Natanael Copa (50):
- main/lighttpd: fix group creation
- main/mariadb: add libs subpackage for server libs
- main/syslinux: add upstream fixes for gcc5
- main/syslinux: fix backported gcc5 patches
- main/mariadb: move mysql_config to -dev
- community/openjdk8: ship libjli.so with jre-base
- community/docker: enable on all archs
- main/mkinitfs: upgrade to 3.0.5
- main/alpine-baselayout: fix warning on shutdown
- main/busybox-initscripts: support for disable gateway and dns in udhcpcd
- main/xen: fix xorg segfaul in linux hvm
- main/util-linux: fix homepage url
- main/util-linux: backport libblkid cdrom probe patch
- main/musl: fix error return code for getaddrinfo
- main/alpine-conf: upgrade to 3.4.1
- community/syncthing: upgrade to 0.13.6
- main/djbdns: remove pre-install from source
- main/gnats: remove pre-install from source list
- main/openssl: security fix for CVE-2016-2177, CVE-2016-2178
- main/expat: rebuild for CVE-2016-0718
- main/busybox: fix df size reports
- main/mkinitfs: fix ttyMFD/ttyUSB serial consoles and use 115200 speed
- community/firefox-esr: upgrade to 45.2.0
- main/jansson: security fix for CVE-2016-4425
- main/bkeymap: add colemak keyboard
- main/linux-grsec: remove support for sysctl syscall
- main/linux-grsec: upgrade to 4.4.13
- main/dahdi-linux-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.4.13-r0
- main/linux-vanilla: disable sysctl syscall
- main/devicemaster-linux-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.4.13-r0
- main/drbd9-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.4.13-r0
- main/ipfw-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.4.13-r0
- main/open-vm-tools-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.4.13-r0
- main/xtables-addons-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.4.13-r0
- main/linux-vanilla: upgrade to 4.4.13
- main/php5: upgrade to 5.6.23
- main/linux-vanilla: upgrade to 4.4.14
- community/go: paxmark go on arm
- community/go: fix paxmark for arm
- main/linux-grsec: upgrade to 4.4.14
- main/dahdi-linux-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.4.14-r0
- main/devicemaster-linux-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.4.14-r0
- main/drbd9-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.4.14-r0
- main/ipfw-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.4.14-r0
- main/open-vm-tools-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.4.14-r0
- main/xtables-addons-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.4.14-r0
- main/haproxy: security upgrade to 1.6.6 (CVE-2016-5360)
- main/py-pygments: security fix for CVE-2015-8557
- main/linux-rpi: upgrade to 4.4.14
- ==== release 3.4.1 ====
- Przemyslaw Pawelczyk (11):
- main/lighttpd: Fix lighttpd user's primary group.
- main/dovecot: Properly set primary group in .pre-install.
- main/{npre, postgrey}: Properly set primary group in .pre-install.
- main/ympd: Reorder arguments in .pre-install as in da4e96aacef5.
- main/znc: Reorder arguments in .pre-install as in da4e96aacef5.
- main/aports-build: Reorder arguments in .pre-install as in da4e96aacef5.
- main/atheme-iris: Fix overlooked consistency issue as in a60b9f07dee0.
- main/[various]: Add group and use it as primary in .pre-* scripts.
- main/[various]: Bump pkgrel for .pre-install scripts fixes.
- community/[various]: Add group and use it as primary in .pre-* scripts.
- community/[various]: Bump pkgrel for .pre-install scripts fixes.
- ScrumpyJack (1):
- main/linux-rpi: Adds the dwc2 kernel module for USB Gadget support
- Soren Tempel (1):
- community/syncthing: upgrade to 0.13.5
- Ted Trask (1):
- main/acf-openssh: upgrade to 0.11.1
- Timo Teras (7):
- community/fbida: backport from edge
- community/docker: disable on armhf temporarily
- main/rtmpdump: improve performance by adjusting outbound chunk size
- main/bmd-tools: upgrade to snapshot of 2016-06-22
- main/linux-rpi: upgrade to 4.4.12
- main/linux-rpi: update config
- main/linux-rpi: upgrade to 4.4.13, new rpi patches, fix dtb install
- Valery Kartel (1):
- main/nginx: fix collision with deprecated package "nginx-initscripts"
What is new in version 3.4.0:
- This is a bugfix release of the v3.3 musl based branch. It fixes a boot problem with Raspberry Pi 3.
What is new in version 3.3.1:
- Joao Arruda (1): main/acf-provisioning-polycom: Upgrade to 5.3.2 Leonardo Arena (12): main/roundcubemail: security upgrade to 1.1.4 main/owncloud: upgrade to 8.1.5 main/linux-grsec: security fixes main/xtables-addons-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.1.15-r1 main/dahdi-linux-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.1.15-r1 main/ipfw-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.1.15-r1 main/devicemaster-linux-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.1.15-r1 main/linux-grsec: security fixes (CVE-2015-7872, CVE-2015-7885) main/dahdi-linux-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.1.15-r2 main/xtables-addons-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.1.15-r2 main/ipfw-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.1.15-r2 main/open-vm-tools-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.1.15-r2 Natanael Copa (5): main/devicemaster-linux-grsec: rebuild against kernel 4.1.15-r2 main/mkinitfs: remove upstreamed patches main/mkinitfs: initramfs fix main/mkinitfs: upgrade to 3.0.2 ==== release 3.3.1 ==== Ted Trask (2): main/acf-weblog: upgrade to 0.10.5 main/lua-xml: Fix TAG bug and bump pkgrel Timo Teras (1): main/linux-rpi: apply rotary-encoder dts fix and rpi mmc-spi fix
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