Draft Release Notes for Alpine 3.24.0

From Alpine Linux

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*.

qemu-binfmt service deprecated

The qemu-binfmt service from the package qemu-openrc is deprecated, in favor of binfmt.d config files from user mode qemu packages (eg. qemu-aarch64 qemu-x86_64) combined with the binfmt service.

If you are using qemu-binfmt, run:

# rc-update del qemu-binfmt && rc-update add binfmt

Contrary to the behavior of qemu-binfmt, the default configuration for the new service prevents setuid programs from granting privileges. If you need to execute setuid programs via qemu:

  • make sure you understand the implications: with this configuration, any user with execute access to any foreign-architecture setuid binary can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that binary
  • if you accept the risks, copy /usr/lib/binfmt.d/qemu-*.conf to /etc/binfmt.d, edit to add the C flag, and restart binfmt.

See Kernel admin guide - binfmt for more information about the C (credentials) flag.

Significant removals

py3-six

More GTK 2 removals

Note: TODO

More Qt5 removals

Note: TODO
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