Draft Release Notes for Alpine 3.23.0

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: We're beginning to work on the roadmap for Alpine Linux v3.23. To view the upcoming changes, see #17294.

Important changes

apk-tools v3

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.

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

Significant removals

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