Alpine Linux 3.16.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.16.0, the first in the v3.16 stable series.

Highlights

• Various improvements in the setup scripts:
  • Better support for NVMe
  • Administrator user creation
  • Possibility to add SSH keys
  • New setup-desktop script for easy install of desktop environment
• Go 1.18
• LLVM 13
• Node.js (current) 18.2
• Ruby 3.1
• Rust 1.60
• GNOME 42
• KDE Plasma 5.24 / KDE Applications 22.04 / Plasma Mobile Gear 22.04
• Python 3.10
• PHP 8.1
• R 4.2
• Xen 4.16
• Podman 4.0

Significant changes

• sudo has been moved to community repository, which means that only latest stable release branch will get security updates in the future. Suggested replacement is doas and doas-sudo-shim.

Upgrade notes

• As always, make sure to use apk upgrade --available when switching between major versions.
• Both shadow-login and util-linux-login provides login-utils with this release. The preferred implementation is from util-linux.
• NetworkManager plugins have moved to subpackages and are no longer installed by default. Users may need install plugins to not lose network connectivity.
• The ICU data has been split into icu-data-en (default) and icu-data-full packages. Users may need to install icu-data-full for non-English locales or legacy charset converters support.

Deprecation notes

• php7 was removed.
• python2 was removed.

Changes

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

Credits

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

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

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Alex Xu (Hello71)
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Alexander Brzoska
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Andrew Harris
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