Release Notes for Alpine 1.7.4

This material is retained only for historical reasons ... Alpine 1.7.4 is an ancient unsupported release. Hyperlinks and wikilinks on this page have all been removed because they have long been dead

News

• improved alpine vserver guest support. For details how to set up a alpine guest see here.
• experimental sendbug application ported from openbsd (to replace send-pr)
• many annoying bugs in busybox vi is fixed (backported from busybox svn)
• Support for booting from floppy is back for some kernels (mini and generic)

Packages

Removed packages:
(none)

New packages:
libxml2-2.6.28
sqlite-3.3.17


Upgraded/downgraded packages (from version):
alpine-baselayout-1.5.1        (1.5.0-r1)
baselayout-2.0.0_rc1           (2.0.0_alpha4)
bash-3.2_p17                   (3.2_p15-r1)
bind-9.4.1_p1                  (9.4.1-r1)
bind-tools-9.4.1_p1            (9.4.1-r1)
conntrack-tools-0.9.5          (0.9.3)
cpio-2.9                       (2.8)
djbdns-1.05-r21                (1.05-r19)
dnstop-20070510-r1             (20050405)
findutils-4.3.8                (4.3.7)
hdparm-7.6                     (7.5)
less-406                       (394)
libnetfilter_conntrack-0.0.81  (0.0.80)
libpcap-0.9.6                  (0.9.5)
lighttpd-1.4.15-r1             (1.4.15)
olsrd-0.5.2-r1                 (0.5.2)
openntpd-3.9_p1-r1             (3.7_p1)
openssh-4.6_p1-r2              (4.5_p1-r1)
pciutils-2.2.4-r3              (2.2.3-r2)
sg3_utils-1.24                 (1.11)
strace-4.5.15                  (4.5.14)
tcpdump-3.9.6-r1               (3.9.5-r3)
varnish-1.1                    (1.0.4)
vim-7.1.042                    (7.0.235)
vim-core-7.1.042               (7.0.235)