Draft Release Notes for Alpine 3.22.0: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 09:05, 28 March 2025

As always, make sure to read Upgrading Alpine to a new major release when upgrading to a new release.

If you experience any issues with the upgrade, please let us know and file an issue in our repositories.

Important changes

Significant changes

KDE Plasma

The X11 session for KDE Plasma has been removed. If you had plasma-workspace-x11 installed make sure to remove it from /etc/apk/world. Wayland is the only available option now.

SDL

sdl3 and sdl2-compat were moved to the community repository and are now the default SDL provider. To force the installation of sdl2, use apk add sdl2.

Adwaita Fonts

As a result of GNOME's switch to adwaita-fonts, the default font for GTK-based applications (e.g. vte3 or libadwaita Applications) was changed. If you want to revert or override the fonts, you can use:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'Cantarell 11'
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name 'Source Code Pro 11'

adwaita-fonts is pulled in as a dependency of some packages since it broke the default behaviour for various applications.

Note-worthy updates

As always, many packages were upgraded. Make sure to read the individual release notes of the projects you use.

Linux TODO
busybox TODO
GCC TODO
LLVM TODO
Go TODO
Rust TODO
PHP TODO
GNOME TODO
KDE Plasma TODO
LXQt TODO
Qt TODO
wlroots TODO
ISC BIND 9.20.TODO

Significant removals

LXD

LXD was moved to the testing repository and is therefore not availabe on Alpine Linux 3.22. It was deprecated in favor of incus and incus-feature (feature branch).

Take a look at the Migration Guide on how to migrate from LXD to Incus using the incus-conversion or incus-feature-conversion package.

@@ Line 14: / Line 14: @@
 {{pkg|sdl3}} and {{pkg|sdl2-compat}} were moved to the community repository and are now the default SDL provider. To force the installation of {{pkg|sdl2}}, use <code>apk add sdl2</code>.
+=== Adwaita Fonts ===
+As a result of [https://release.gnome.org/48/#new-fonts GNOME's switch] to {{pkg|adwaita-fonts}}, the default font for GTK-based applications (e.g. {{pkg|vte3}} or {{pkg|libadwaita}} Applications) was changed. If you want to revert or override the fonts, you can use:
+<pre>
+$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'Cantarell 11'
+$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name 'Source Code Pro 11'
+</pre>
+{{pkg|adwaita-fonts}} is pulled in as a dependency of some packages since it broke the default behaviour for various applications.
 == Note-worthy updates ==
@@ Line 31: / Line 42: @@
 * Qt TODO
 * wlroots TODO
+* ISC BIND 9.20.TODO
 == Significant removals ==
+=== LXD ===
+LXD was moved to the testing repository and is therefore not availabe on Alpine Linux 3.22. It was deprecated in favor of {{pkg|incus}} and {{pkg|incus-feature}} (feature branch).
+Take a look at the [https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/server_migrate_lxd/ Migration Guide] on how to migrate from LXD to Incus using the {{pkg|incus-conversion}} or {{pkg|incus-feature-conversion}} package.