Draft Release Notes for Alpine 3.23.0: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:16, 18 June 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

apk-tools

Note: TODO: we will move to apk v3

linux-stable replaces linux-edge

For years, linux-lts and linux-edge grew apart and developed their own kernel configs, different architectures, etc.

Now linux-edge gets replaced with linux-stable which has the identical configuration as linux-lts, but follows the stable releases instead of the long-term releases (see https://kernel.org/).

If you had linux-edge installed, apk automatically installs linux-stable as a replacement. There is a reasonably amount of kernel config differences, if you need a config option that existed previously in linux-edge, please open a issue to add the required option to linux-lts. Also this change might involve manual boot loader configuration, as the kernel has been renamed and follows linux-lts' packaging recipe.

Significant changes

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
GCC TODO
GNOME TODO
Go TODO
ISC BIND TODO
KDE Plasma TODO
Linux TODO
LLVM TODO
LXQt TODO
nginx TODO
NodeJS TODO (LTS)
PHP TODO
Qt TODO
Ruby TODO
Rust TODO
wlroots TODO
zigbee2mqtt TODO

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 {{Note|TODO: we will move to apk v3}}
-=== linux-stable replaces linux-edge ===
+=== {{Pkg|linux-stable}} replaces {{Pkg|linux-edge}} ===
-It follows Linux's stable releases and otherwise has an identical configuration as linux-lts.
+For years, {{Pkg|linux-lts}} and {{Pkg|linux-edge}} grew apart and developed their own kernel configs, different architectures, etc.
-There are kernel config differences now, if you need a config option, please open a issue to add the required option to linux-lts.
+Now {{Pkg|linux-edge}} gets replaced with {{Pkg|linux-stable}} which has the identical configuration as {{Pkg|linux-lts}}, but follows the stable releases instead of the long-term releases (see https://kernel.org/).
-This might require manual interaction depending on your boot loader.
+If you had {{Pkg|linux-edge}} installed, apk automatically installs {{Pkg|linux-stable}} as a replacement. There is a reasonably amount of kernel config differences, if you need a config option that existed previously in {{Pkg|linux-edge}}, please open a issue to add the required option to {{Pkg|linux-lts}}. Also this change might involve manual boot loader configuration, as the kernel has been renamed and follows {{Pkg|linux-lts}}' packaging recipe.
 == Significant changes ==