Available release of Alpine Linux 3.24, a minimalistic distribution built on the basis of the Musl system library and the BusyBox set of utilities. The distribution has increased security requirements and is built with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection) protection. OpenRC is used as the initialization system, and its own apk package manager is used to manage packages. Alpine is used to build official Docker container images and is used in the PostmarketOS project. Bootable iso images (x86_64, x86, armhf, aarch64, armv7, ppc64le, s390x, riscv64 and loongarch64) are prepared in six versions: standard (352 MB), downloadable over the network (374 MB), extended (1 GB), for virtual machines (66 MB), minirootfs (4 MB) and for the Xen hypervisor (1 GB).
In new release:
- Added support for the installer (setup-alpine) Limine loader that supports network boot over IPv6.
- Packages with the COSMIC desktop environment, developed by System76 in the Rust language, have been added to the “community” repository.
- Packages using the GTK 2 and Qt5 libraries that could not be ported to the current GTK and Qt branches have been removed. GTK 2 is planned to be removed in the next release.
- Packages with new versions of the graphical environments GNOME 50.2, KDE Plasma 6.6, LXQt 2.4.0 and Sway 1.12 have been proposed.
- Package versions have been updated, for example, releases of GRUB 2.14, LLVM 22, Rust 1.96, Go 1.26, Qt are available 6.11, wlroots 0.20, nginx 1.30, Xen 4.21. The Linux kernel package continues to be shipped with branch