Alpine 3.1.0 released

We are pleased to announce Alpine Linux 3.1.0, the first release in v3.1 stable series.

This release is built with musl libc and is not compatible with v2.x and earlier, so special care needs to be taken when upgrading.

Please refer to the documentation for information on how to perform the upgrade.

Some of the new features are:

• support for openvswitch
• Xen 4.4
• a release build for Rasberry PI (arm hardfloat)

Some of the desktop applications that got upgraded and are available for v3.1:

• xorg-server-1.16.2
• firefox 31.2.0
• gnumeric 1.12.18
• evince 3.14.1
• virt-manager 1.1.0
• claws-mail 3.11.0
• hexchat 2.10.2
• vlc 2.1.5
• inkscape 0.48.5
• gimp 2.8.14
• audacity 2.0.6

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

Commit statistics:

1930  Natanael Copa
 227  Carlo Landmeter
 189  Fabian Affolter
 176  Timo Teräs
 132  Eivind Uggedal
  99  Leonardo Arena
  78  Francesco Colista
  50  Bartłomiej Piotrowski
  40  ScrumpyJack
  39  Isaac Dunham
  33  Ted Trask
  27  Peter Bui
  26  xming
  23  k0r10n
  20  Kaarle Ritvanen
  19  Stuart Cardall
  15  Johannes Matheis
  11  z3bra
  11  AmatCoder
   6  Valery Kartel
   5  Nathan Angelacos
   5  William Pitcock
   3  Jeff Bilyk
   3  Paul Kilar
   3  V.Krishn
   3  Alan Lacerda
   3  stf
   2  Roger Newman
   2  Gaber Ayoubi
   2  Dennis Przytarski
   2  Amatcoder
   1  Linux User
   1  Jens Vehlhaber
   1  Igmar Palsenberg
   1  Marian
   1  Fabio Aires
   1  Hiltjo Posthuma
   1  Rafał Rzepecki
   1  Willy Goiffon
   1  stef
   1  Alan Messias Cordeiro de Lacerda
   1  Alex Dowad
   1  Hugo Landau
   1  systmkor