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Alpine Linux 3.6.0 Released ☶ linux release alpinelinux.org
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NEW FEATURES AND NOTEWORTHY NEW PACKAGES

Support for 64-bit little-endian POWER machines (ppc64le)
Support for 64-bit IBM z Systems (s390x)
Rust 1.17.0 and Cargo 0.18.0
GHC 8.0.2
Julia 0.5.2

SIGNIFICANT UPDATES

GCC 6.3
LLVM 4.0
PHP 7.1
Go 1.8
Python 3.6
LuaJIT 2.1beta3
nginx 1.12
Ruby 2.4

NOTEWORTHY CHANGES

The llvm package has been changed to be provided by a versioned llvm package, which is presently llvm4;
The -grsec kernel-related packages have been renamed to -hardened;

DEVELOPMENT-RELATED CHANGES

MD5 and SHA-1 hashes have been removed from APKBUILDs, being obsoleted by SHA-512; set -e is now implied in APKBUILDs, automatically failing the build upon unhandled failing commands;
A check() function has been added to APKBUILDs that allows packages to run test suites after build(), ensuring no regressions have occurred. This has been implemented for a number of packages, and policy onward will be to have them either be present or explicitly opted-out of with good reasoning;

CREDITS

Thanks to everyone sending in patches, bug reports, new and updated aports
Thanks to GIGABYTE, Scaleway, Fastly, IBM, Packet, and vpsFree for providing us with hardware and hosting.

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  steveno 6 years ago | link
  
  Anyone here use Alpine Linux as their desktop? Any thoughts on it they would like to share? The good, the bad, the ugly?
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  arkan 6 years ago | link
  
  I really like alpine, and rely on it for almost all my deploiements. However i experienced a lot of issues with their CDN which seems not totally stable.
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  trousers edited 6 years ago | link
  
  Alpine looks really cool. Going to give it a try in a VM and kick the tires.
  
  I run FreeBSD most everywhere, but for when I need a linux system, it would be nice to use something cleaner than the CentOS that I currently use – I’m getting sick and tired of fighting with journald corruption issues.
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  superpat 6 years ago | link
  
  Wow, I had no idea they had managed to make this many languages work with musl, I had seen scripts to crosscompile ghc for musl but they seemed a little unreliable at the time.
  
  I’ll try this out in a vm and if its more stable than void linux, I might switch to it.
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    mitchty 6 years ago | link
    
    As the guy that ported it, yes cross compiling ghc is not my most favorite thing. But it can be done.