Release Notes for Alpine 3.16.0

Important changes

/tmp mounted as tmpfs

Previously /tmp was just part of the root filesystem and was cleaned on boot via the bootmisc openrc service script. In v3.16, on new installation, /tmp will be mounted as tmpfs.

New features and noteworthy new packages

KDE

Plasma has been upgraded from 5.23 to 5.24.

KDE applications (the release service) have been upgraded from 21.08 to 22.04 and KDE Frameworks have been upgraded from 5.88 to 5.93.

Plasma Mobile Gear have been upgraded from 21.12 to 22.04.