Alpine Linux 3.15.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.15.0, the first in the v3.15 stable series.

Highlights

• Linux kernels 5.15 (LTS)
• llvm 12
• nodejs 16.13 (LTS) / nodejs-current 17.0
• postgresql 14
• openldap 2.6
• ruby 3.0
• rust 1.56
• openjdk 17
• kea 2.0
• xorg-server 21.1
• GNOME 41
• KDE Plasma 5.23 / KDE Applications 21.08 / Plasma Mobile Gear 21.10
• Support for disk encryption in installer
• Support for out-of-tree kernel modules via AKMS (inspired by DKMS)
• Initial support for UEFI Secure Boot on x86_64

Significant changes

• Kernel modules are now compressed with gzip.
• Framebuffer drivers have been disabled in kernel and replaced by simpledrm.
• qt5-qtwebkit and related packages have been removed due to lack of upstream support.
• The MIPS64 port is discontinued. The architecture is EOL and no new releases will be made. See TSC#27.

Upgrade notes

• As always, make sure to use apk upgrade --available when switching between major versions.
• New 4096 bit RSA keys are now used for package signatures. Make sure alpine-keys>=2.4.0-r0 is installed on your system before upgrading.
• Multiple major versions of PostreSQL can now be installed in parallel to facilitate upgrades. See the PostgreSQL upgrade notes for more details.
• radvd no longer enables forwarding for IPv6. If still required, make sure net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding is enabled.
• Several ruby packages have been moved to dedicated aports, and others have merged into a single package. See the wiki for details.

Deprecation notes

• sudo will be moved to community in Alpine Linux 3.16. The suggested replacement is doas, which is available in main. See TSC#1
• php7 is being phased out, as the last release, 7.4 will have only 1 year of security support left.

Changes

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

Credits

Thanks to everyone sending in patches, bug reports, new and updated aports, and to everyone helping with writing documentation, maintaining the infrastructure, or has contributed in any other way!

Thanks to GIGABYTE, Linode, Fastly, IBM, Equinix Metal, vpsFree and RapidSwitch for providing us with hardware and hosting.

aports Commit Contributors

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