Alpine Linux 3.6.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.6.0, the first in the v3.6 stable series.

New features and noteworthy new packages

• Support for 64-bit little-endian POWER machines (ppc64le)
• Support for 64-bit IBM z Systems (s390x)
• Rust 1.17.0 and Cargo 0.18.0
• GHC 8.0.2
• Julia 0.5.2

Significant updates

• GCC 6.3
• LLVM 4.0
• PHP 7.1
• Go 1.8
• Python 3.6
• LuaJIT 2.1beta3
• nginx 1.12
• Ruby 2.4

Noteworthy changes

• The llvm package has been changed to be provided by a versioned llvm<X> package, which is presently llvm4;
• The -grsec kernel-related packages have been renamed to -hardened;

Development-related changes

• MD5 and SHA-1 hashes have been removed from APKBUILDs, being obsoleted by SHA-512;
• set -e is now implied in APKBUILDs, automatically failing the build upon unhandled failing commands;
• A check() function has been added to APKBUILDs that allows packages to run test suites after build(), ensuring no regressions have occurred. This has been implemented for a number of packages, and policy onward will be to have them either be present or explicitly opted-out of with good reasoning;

Credits

• Thanks to everyone sending in patches, bug reports, new and updated aports
• Thanks to GIGABYTE, Scaleway, Fastly, IBM, Packet, and vpsFree for providing us with hardware and hosting.

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

Commit statistics

  1381  Natanael Copa
   561  Jakub Jirutka
   491  Francesco Colista
   397  Leonardo Arena
   247  William Pitcock
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   183  André Klitzing
   151  Timo Teräs
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   143  Fabian Affolter
   143  Valery Kartel
    94  Carlo Landmeter
    79  Stuart Cardall
    67  Ivan Tham
    66  Tuan M. Hoang
    66  Kaarle Ritvanen
    53  Shiz
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