Release Notes for Alpine 3.11.0 (ideas): Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 14:42, 25 August 2023

List of possible release notes for 3.11.0

Notable Changes

Rust now on almost all arches

rust >= 1.37.0-r0 is now enabled on all arches except s390x

Vulkan support

vulkan-loader, vulkan-headers and {{pkg|vulkan-tools are now in the repository.
spirv-headers, spirv-tools, glslang and shaderc are now in the repository.
mpv >= 0.29.1-r5 now has Vulkan support
wine >= 4.0.1-r1 has been recompiled with Vulkan and vkd3d support
gst-plugins-bad >= 1.16.0-r2 now has Vulkan support

KDE Plasma and GNOME on community

KDE Plasma and GNOME are now on the community repository.

MinGW-w64 and DXVK support

The MinGW suite up to mingw-w64-gcc is packaged. The following MinGW packages are now available:

/var/mail now default MAIL location

Packages now all use /var/mail instead of /var/spool/mail, in accordance with FHS:

NOTE: Upgrading from 3.10 to 3.11 might require manual intervention in the form of moving /var/spool/mail to /var/mail if the system can't do it automatically.

alpine-baselayout >= 3.2.0-r0 now creates /var/mail and symlinks /var/spool/mail to it
tcsh >= 6.21.00-r0 now sets MAILDIR to /var/mail/$USER if it exists
mutt >= 1.12.1-r1 is now configured to use /var/mail instead of /var/spool/mail
heirloom-mailx >= 12.4-r7 now uses /var/mail
opensmtpd >= 6.0.3p1-r4 now uses /var/mail
s-nail >= 14.9.13-r2 now uses /var/mail

ulogd now has some output plugins split

Starting with ulogd-2.0.7-r3 plugins that depend on external libraries like 'json', 'sqlite3', 'mysql' and 'pgsql' are now split into its own subpackages named 'ulogd-$plugin'.

This is done to reduce the size of the package and its dependencies, for example, people that only use the 'syslog' and 'gprint' plugins don't need to bring the heavier 'json' and 'mysql' plugins and its dependencies on external libraries like 'libjansson'.

musl >= 1.1.24-r0 supports GLOB_TILDE and secure_getenv

musl now supports GLOB_TILDE and secure_getenv, all packages that had it disabled have been rebuilt.

Packages affected by GLOB_TILDE:

i3wm >= 4.17.1-r1
i3wm-gaps >= 4.17.1-r1
i3status >= 2.13-1
taskd >= 1.1.0-r6
policycoreutils >= 2.8-r1
ipsec-tools >= 0.8.2-r9

Packages affected by secure_getenv:

libuser >= 0.62-r3
networkmanager >= 1.20.4-r1
elogind >= 241.3-r3
chromium >= 77.0.3865.120-r1
gnutls >= 3.6.10-r0

xz is now compiled as an applet of busybox

xz (the binary) is now compiled as an applet of the busybox package, and will be installed as a symlink in /usr/bin/xz, the following packages dropped their dependency on the fully-featured but larger xz (the package) in favour of the busybox equivalent:

gettext >= 0.20.1-r2
distrobuilder >= 0_git20181004-r2
kexec-tools >= 2.0.20-r1
lxc >= 3.2.1-r2
lxd >= 3.18-r1
dpkg >= 1.19.7-r1
texlive >= 20190410-r6

NOTE: you can install the xz package to get the fully featured xz if necessary. It will take over the spot of busybox's xz in /usr/bin/xz

Changes in abuild

The following changes have been made in abuild:

Fix condition check for -dev subpackage to get static libraries

Before this fix abuild would include the static libraries in the -dev subpackage even when -static was defined in subpackages, causing the latter to fail.

Now the check is properly done.

default_static now depends on depends_static

default_static used to completely cancel out any dependencies but now it depends on all packages listed in the depends_static variable.

newapkbuild -y now depends on py3-setuptools instead of python3-dev

When using newapkbuild to make py3- packages the default definition now includes only py3-setuptools instead of python3-dev as the first one is used in almost all cases while python3-dev is used only when linking to the python3 library.

Better checking of SPDX compliance

Abuild now checks the /usr/share/spdx/license.lst more accurately, before the new check it would not match the whole line and wrong definitions like 'GPL-3.0' would match while the only valid ones in that case were 'GPL-3.0-or-later' and 'GPL-3.0-only'.

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 List of possible release notes for 3.11.0
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 ==== Rust now on almost all arches ====
-Thanks to contributor [https://github.com/Cogitri Cogitri] Rust is now enabled on all arches except s390x and ppc64le
+{{pkg|rust}} >= 1.37.0-r0 is now enabled on all arches except s390x
 ==== Vulkan support ====
-Thanks to [https://github.com/PureTryOut PureTryOut] the following changes have been made:
+* {{pkg|vulkan-loader}}, {{pkg|vulkan-headers}} and {{pkg|vulkan-tools are now in the repository.
-* [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/vulkan-loader vulkan-loader], [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/vulkan-headers vulkan-headers] and [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/vulkan-tools vulkan-tools] are now in the repository.
+* {{pkg|spirv-headers}}, {{pkg|spirv-tools}}, {{pkg|glslang}} and {{pkg|shaderc}} are now in the repository.
+* {{pkg|mpv}} >= 0.29.1-r5 now has Vulkan support
-Thanks to [https://github.com/maxice8 Leo] the following changes have been made:
+* {{pkg|wine}} >= 4.0.1-r1 has been recompiled with Vulkan and vkd3d support
-* [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/spirv-headers spirv-headers], [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/spirv-tools spirv-tools], [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/glslang glslang] and [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/shaderc shaderc] are now in the repository.
+* {{pkg|gst-plugins-bad}} >= 1.16.0-r2 now has Vulkan support
-* [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/mpv mpv] (starting from 0.29.1-r5) now has Vulkan support
-* [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/wine wine] (starting from 4.0.1-r1) has been recompiled with Vulkan and vkd3d support
-* [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-bad] (starting from 1.16.0-r2) now has Vulkan support
-==== KDE Plasma and other KGoodies ====
+==== KDE Plasma and GNOME on community ====
-Thanks to [https://github.com/PureTryOut PureTryOut] for moving the packages from the testing repository to the
+KDE Plasma and GNOME are now on the community repository.
-community repository and the people that tested it.
 ==== MinGW-w64 and DXVK support ====
-Thanks to [https://github.com/maxice8 Leo] the MinGW suite up to mingw-w64-gcc is packaged and together with it
+The MinGW suite up to mingw-w64-gcc is packaged. The following MinGW packages are now available:
-[https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk DXVK]. The following MinGW packages are now available:
-* mingw-w64-binutils
+* {{pkg|mingw-w64-binutils}}
-* mingw-w64-winpthreads
+* {{pkg|mingw-w64-winpthreads}}
-* mingw-w64-gcc
+* {{pkg|mingw-w64-gcc}}
-* mingw-w64-gcc-base
+* {{pkg|mingw-w64-gcc-base}}
-* mingw-w64-headers-bootstrap
+* {{pkg|mingw-w64-headers-bootstrap}}
-* mingw-w64-crt
+* {{pkg|mingw-w64-crt}}
-* mingw-w64-headers
+* {{pkg|mingw-w64-headers}}
 ==== /var/mail now default MAIL location ====
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 Packages now all use /var/mail instead of /var/spool/mail, in accordance with [https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch05s11.html FHS]:
-NOTE: Upgrading from 3.10 to 3.11 requires manual intervention, /var/spool/mail needs to be moved to /var/mail
+NOTE: Upgrading from 3.10 to 3.11 might require manual intervention in the form of moving /var/spool/mail to /var/mail if the system can't do it automatically.
+* alpine-baselayout >= 3.2.0-r0 now creates /var/mail and symlinks /var/spool/mail to it
+* tcsh >= 6.21.00-r0 now sets MAILDIR to /var/mail/$USER if it exists
+* mutt >= 1.12.1-r1 is now configured to use /var/mail instead of /var/spool/mail
+* heirloom-mailx >= 12.4-r7 now uses /var/mail
+* opensmtpd >= 6.0.3p1-r4 now uses /var/mail
+* s-nail >= 14.9.13-r2 now uses /var/mail
+==== ulogd now has some output plugins split ====
+Starting with ulogd-2.0.7-r3 plugins that depend on external libraries like 'json', 'sqlite3', 'mysql' and 'pgsql' are now
+split into its own subpackages named 'ulogd-$plugin'.
+This is done to reduce the size of the package and its dependencies, for example, people that only use the 'syslog' and 'gprint' plugins don't need to bring the heavier 'json' and 'mysql' plugins and its dependencies on external libraries like 'libjansson'.
+==== musl >= 1.1.24-r0 supports GLOB_TILDE and secure_getenv ====
+musl now supports [http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/glob.3.html GLOB_TILDE] and [https://linux.die.net/man/3/secure_getenv secure_getenv], all packages that had it disabled have been rebuilt.
+Packages affected by GLOB_TILDE:
+* i3wm >= 4.17.1-r1
+* i3wm-gaps >= 4.17.1-r1
+* i3status >= 2.13-1
+* taskd >= 1.1.0-r6
+* policycoreutils >= 2.8-r1
+* ipsec-tools >= 0.8.2-r9
+Packages affected by secure_getenv:
+* libuser >= 0.62-r3
+* networkmanager >= 1.20.4-r1
+* elogind >= 241.3-r3
+* chromium >= 77.0.3865.120-r1
+* gnutls >= 3.6.10-r0
+==== xz is now compiled as an applet of busybox ====
+xz (the binary) is now compiled as an applet of the busybox package, and will be installed as a symlink in /usr/bin/xz, the following packages dropped their dependency on the fully-featured but larger xz (the package) in favour of the busybox equivalent:
+* gettext >= 0.20.1-r2
+* distrobuilder >= 0_git20181004-r2
+* kexec-tools >= 2.0.20-r1
+* lxc >= 3.2.1-r2
+* lxd >= 3.18-r1
+* dpkg >= 1.19.7-r1
+* texlive >= 20190410-r6
-* alpine-baselayout now creates /var/mail and symlinks /var/spool/mail to it
+NOTE: you can install the xz package to get the fully featured xz if necessary. It will take over the spot of busybox's xz in /usr/bin/xz
-* tcsh now sets MAILDIR to /var/mail/$USER if it exists
-* mutt is now configured to use /var/mail instead of /var/spool/mail
-* heirloom-mailx now uses /var/mail
-* opensmtpd now uses /var/mail
-* s-nail now uses /var/mail
 === Changes in abuild ===
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 Abuild now [https://github.com/alpinelinux/abuild/commit/e476188c6f415ad3b4aa3a444709784fbba1ebb1 checks] the /usr/share/spdx/license.lst more accurately, before the new check it would not match the whole line and wrong definitions like 'GPL-3.0' would match while the only valid ones in that case were 'GPL-3.0-or-later' and 'GPL-3.0-only'.
+[[category:Development]]