Alpine 3.3.0 released

We are pleased to announce Alpine Linux 3.3.0, the first release in v3.3 stable series.

The ISO images have been renamed. Current images are now:

• alpine (previously ‘alpine-mini’). Minimalisitic boot media for network access.
• alpine-vanilla (same as before). Same as ‘alpine’ but with vanilla kernel.
• alpine-extended (previously ‘alpine’). Same as ‘alpine’ but with slightly more packages available in the repository. Handy where network access is limited.
• alpine-xen (same as before). Boot media for Xen Dom 0.
• alpine-rpi (same as before).
• alpine-uboot (same as before). General ARM image.

Some of the new features are:

• linux 4.1 kernel
• gcc 5.3.0 / musl 1.1.12
• New repository named community
• mariadb 10.1
• Xen 4.6
• perl 5.22
• isohybrid boot images
• refactored initramfs. alpine_dev boot option no longer needed and better support for cryptroot, lvm, mdadm.

Some of the desktop applications that got upgraded and are available for v3.3:

• xorg-server-1.18
• evince 3.18
• libreoffice 5.0
• Mate desktop 1.12
• qt5 5.5

The full list of changes can be found in the git log and bug tracker.

Commit statistics:

2087  Natanael Copa
 354  Sören Tempel
 338  Carlo Landmeter
 179  Francesco Colista
 174  Leonardo Arena
 172  Timo Teräs
 164  Eivind Uggedal
 147  Christian Kampka
 109  Stuart Cardall
  82  Peter Bui
  79  Valery Kartel
  75  Bartłomiej Piotrowski
  62  Alan Lacerda
  54  Ted Trask
  40  Kaarle Ritvanen
  31  Fabian Affolter
  28  ScrumpyJack
  19  Andrew Hills
  16  Nathan Angelacos
  14  Marlus Saraiva
  13  Isaac Dunham
  12  Daniele Coli
  11  William Pitcock
  11  Michael Zuo
   9  Łukasz Jendrysik
   8  Dennis Przytarski
   7  Michael Koloberdin
   7  Jesse Young
   7  Bennett Goble
   6  Laurent Bercot
   6  Jonathan Curran
   5  Leo Unglaub
   5  AmatCoder
   4  xming
   4  Travis Tilley
   4  Markus M. May
   4  Jiri Horner
   4  Gert Van Gool
   3  tsing
   3  systmkor
   3  sillysausage
   3  V.Krishn
   3  Samantha Baldwin
   3  Olivier Mauras
   3  Johannes Matheis
   3  Filip Chabik
   3  Danilo Bürger
   2  Xavier Guimard
   2  Terror
   2  Pierre-Gildas MILLON
   2  Philipp Andronov
   2  Jeff Bilyk
   1  rob dux
   1  mckelvin
   1  author Timo Teräs timo.teras@iki.fi 1442826138 +0300
   1  Yagnesh Mistry
   1  Vlad Frolov
   1  Tim Dettrick
   1  Thomas Harning Jr
   1  Thomas Boerger
   1  Shiz
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   1  Sander Maijers
   1  Pavel Renev
   1  Nicols de la Torre
   1  Muh Muhten
   1  Mika Havela
   1  Jose-Luis Rivas
   1  Joao Arruda
   1  Jeremy Gill
   1  Francesco Zanini
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