Release Notes for Alpine 3.18.0
- python 3.11 https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.11.html
- linux-lts 6.1 https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/12/11/206
- The gnome metapackage was reworked and the packages gnome-apps-extra and gnome-games-collection were removed to avoid opinionated lists in metapackages. It is advised to remove those from /etc/apk/world before performing the upgrade. Additionally, the new subpackage gnome-dev-tools was added following upstream's recommendations.
DT_RELR
on x86, x86_64, and ppc64le, -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs
is now added to the base LDFLAGS. this reduces elf (executable/shared-library) size by 10% on average.
however, these binaries are now not portable to other musl-based systems that have a musl older than 1.2.4, because older versions are incapable of loading these binaries.