Draft Release Notes for Alpine 3.24.0: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 20:40, 13 January 2026

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.

Note: Alpine 3.24 is WIP, see https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/groups/alpine/-/milestones/27 for important changes. For the latest release 3.23, look at Release Notes for Alpine 3.23.0.

Important changes

/usr merge

New installations can opt-in to being /usr-merged, by setting the BOOTSTRAP_USR_MERGED environment variable to 1 before running setup-disk. Manual migration is also possible by installing the merge-usr package and running its binary as root. For more details see the official announcement.

Significant changes

GTK+ 3.0 moved to community

Note: TODO

gdk-pixbuf uses glycin/glycin loaders got split

Note: TODO

Note-worthy updates

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

BIRD TODO
busybox TODO
Deno TODO
ffmpeg TODO
GCC TODO
GNOME TODO
Go TODO
ISC BIND TODO
ISC Kea TODO
KDE Plasma TODO
Linux TODO
LLVM TODO
LXQt TODO
.NET TODO
nginx TODO
NodeJS TODO (LTS)
OpenJDK TODO
PHP TODO
Qt TODO
Ruby TODO
Rust TODO
wlroots TODO
zigbee2mqtt TODO

COSMIC 1

This release makes the COSMIC desktop available in community as cosmic* including xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic*.

Significant removals

py3-six

Note: TODO https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/work_items/17822

More GTK 2 removals

Note: TODO

More Qt5 removals

Note: TODO

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+=== COSMIC 1 ===
+This release makes the COSMIC desktop available in community as {{pkg|cosmic*}} including {{pkg|xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic*}}.
 == Significant removals ==
+<!--
+=== {{Pkg|binutils-gold}} removed ===
+{{Note|TODO: not done yet and maybe not in 3.24}}
+The gold linker got deprecated by upstream on February 2025 and in Alpine v3.24 we removed it from our repositories.
+Previously this has been hold because of Go's use of the gold linker for ARM architectures, but these days the default ld linker works as expected.
+-->
+=== py3-six ===
+{{Note|TODO https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/work_items/17822}}
+=== More GTK 2 removals ===
+{{Note|TODO}}
 === More Qt5 removals ===
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