Draft Release Notes for Alpine 3.24.0
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: 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
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
Significant removals
More Qt5 removals
Note: TODO