ALPINE LINUX 3.13.0 released, a lightweight and secure Linux distribution

Alpine Linux 3.13.0 is officially released, which is the first version in the v3.13 stable series.

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented lightweight Linux distribution. The distribution is designed for x86 routers, firewalls, virtual private networks, IP phone boxes and servers based on the concept of security. In addition, different from common Linux distributions, Alpine Linux uses  musl libc  and  busybox  to reduce system size and runtime resource consumption. While staying thin, Alpine Linux also provides its own package management tool apk, which can be queried on its website or directly through the apk command for query and installation.

3.13.0 New features and new packages worthy of attention:

• Official cloud mirror.
• Introduce  ifupdown-ng instead of busybox ifupdown.
• Improved Wi-Fi support in the installation script.
• PHP 8.0 is now available.
• Node.js (LTS) uses -O2 instead of -Os for compilation, which significantly improves performance. If the new package icu-data is installed at the same time, it can also use the complete ICU data.
• Initialization supports cloud-init.

Important update:

• 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

Upgrade Instructions:

• The musl-1.2 upgrade will change all time_t definitions in 64-bit Arch Linux . This will affect armhf, armv7 and x86. For more information, please refer to the  musl time64 release notes  and  Wiki .
• Due to licensing issues, Berkley DB has been deprecated. This means /etc/postfix/main.cfthat all forms in it must be converted to other formats before being upgraded, for example lmdb.
• xorg-server and related packages have been moved to the community. Make sure that the /etc/apk/repositories community repository is enabled in.
• Some rarely used busybox applets have been disabled. See the Wiki for more information  .

Update instructions: https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.13.0-released.html

Download link: https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/