Release Notes for Alpine 3.16.0

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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

Fixed not showing boot output using consoles with drivers compiled as modules

Fixed OpenRC output not being shown on VirtIO consoles.

Significant updates

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.

GNOME 41

Most GNOME packages have been upgraded to version 41.