Alpine 2.3.0 released

The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce immediate availablity of version 2.3 of its Alpine Linux operating system.

This release introduces several new features:

• A new Linux kernel based on 3.0.
• GCC 4.6.
• Improved setup scripts with tools for helping configure local config backup location and package manager cache.
• Preliminary support for booting from encrypted LVM partitions.
• Busybox has been upgraded to version 1.19.2 with shell history search (with ctrl-r).
• Unbound DNS resolver with DNSSEC support.
• setup-bootable now uses UUID by default.
• Better multi-ISP support in pingu with support for ppp and dhcp using.
• PostgreSQL has been upgraded to 9.1.
• Kamailio has been upgraded to 3.2.
• "apk search" now does wildcard search by default.
• New ISO image for iSCSI targets: alpine-scst.