The first stable version in the v3.21 series, Alpine Linux 3.21.0, features the Linux kernel 6.12, GCC 14, LLVM 19, Node.js 22.11, Rust 1.83, Crystal 1.14, GNOME 47, Go 1.23, KDE Plasma 6.2, LXQt 2.1, PHP 8.4, Qt 6.8, Sway 1.10, and.NET 9.0.

Alpine 3.21.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.21.0, the first in the v3.21 stable series.

Highlights

• Linux kernel  6.12
• GCC  14
• LLVM  19
• Node.js (lts)  22.11
• Rust  1.83
• Crystal  1.14
• GNOME  47
• Go  1.23
• KDE Plasma  6.2
• LXQt  2.1
• PHP  8.4
• Qt  6.8
• Sway  1.10
• .NET  9.0

Significant changes

Initial support for loongarch64 was added.

Upgrade notes

As always, make sure to use apk upgrade --available when switching between major versions.

OpenSSH service will  automatically restart when upgrading to be able to accept new connections.

The linux-firmware is now  compressed with ZSTD. Users running custom-built kernels need to ensure that CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_ZSTD=y is present in the kernel configuration.

Users with / and /usr on separate filesystems (which is unsupported) need take special care. See the  wiki for details.

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  AlpineLinuxSupport.com for providing us with hardware and hosting.

Alpine 3.21.0 released