A new version of Alpine Linux, a lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox, has been released.
Alpine 3.13.0 released
We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.13.0, the first in the v3.13 stable series.
NEW FEATURES AND NOTEWORTHY NEW PACKAGES
- Official cloud images.
- Introduction of ifupdown-ng, a replacement for busybox ifupdown.
- Improved wifi support in setup scripts
- PHP 8.0 is available now (next to PHP 7.4).
- Node.js (LTS) is compiled with -O2 instead of -Os which noticeably improves performance. It can also use full ICU data if new package icu-data is installed alongside.
- Initial support for cloud-init
SIGNIFICANT UPDATES
- Linux 5.10.7
- musl 1.2
- Busybox 1.32.1
- GCC 10.2.1
- Git 2.30.0
- Knot DNS 3.0.3
- MariaDB 10.5.8
- Node.js 14.15.4
- Nextcloud 20.0.4
- PostgreSQL 13.1
- QEMU 5.2.0
- Xen 4.14.1
- Zabbix 5.2.3
- ZFS 2.0.1
