Draft Release Notes for Alpine 3.21.0
Highlights
- Go 1.23.1
- Rust 1.81
- GNOME 47
- KDE Plasma 6.1.5
- LXQt 2.0.0
- GCC 14.2.0
OpenSSH
You need to restart your sshd service!
Since the 9.8_p1 release, openssh-server is now split into two binaries, sshd and sshd-session. With this change sshd needs to be restarted to be able to accept new connections.
Since managing services has always been out-of-scope for apk, we will NOT do the following for you:
rc-service --ifstarted sshd restart
GNOME 47
GNOME 47 made it into Alpine 3.21. Everything should work as expected. Make sure you read the GNOME 47 release notes: https://release.gnome.org/47/
LXQt 2.0.0
LXQt has been updated to release 2.0.
- It now uses Qt6
- Many parts of LXQt are now wayland ready¹, but wayland ports of the following are pending: screengrab, lxqt-globalkeys, LXQt Panel's task-bar² and keyboard indicator, some input settings, and settings of monitor, power button, and screen locker.
- LXQt Panel has a new default application menu called Fancy Menu.
¹ lxqt-wayland-session has not been released or packaged yet, but most folks wanting to test on wayland will want to use it.
² Most folks testing LXQt on wayland are using waybar temporarily until the task-bar is ported.
Jellyfin
Jellyfin now uses the recommended fork of ffmpeg called jellyfin-ffmpeg by default. If you want to change that, take a look at the ffmpegpath variable in /etc/conf.d/jellyfin. (!69924)
Jellyfin was disabled for ARM architectures (aarch64 and armv7) and is only available for x86_64. The relevant issue is: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/16613
Bats
"main/bats" was renamed to "main/bats-core". Now there is a meta package "community/bats" which contains:
- bats-core
- bats-file
- bats-support
- bats-assert
ISC DHCP
linux-firmware
linux-firmware is now compressed with ZSTD compression. If you run a custom built Linux kernel, you need to ensure that CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_ZSTD=y is set in your configuration.