Alpine Linux 3.18 Released - Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Musl Libc 1.2.4

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Alpine Linux 3.18 Released - Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Musl Libc 1.2.4

Alpine Linux 3.18 is out today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Linux distribution built with musl libc and Busybox while being popular for embedded and container use-cases...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alpine-Linux-3.18

[FireBurn]

What's DT_RLR?

[kaidenshi]

What's DT_RLR?

He probably meant DT_RELR.

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/tsc/-/issues/58

[evert_mouw]

Hopefully the DNS issues will have been solved now...

[S.Pam]

Nice and congrats on the release. My favorite VM distro

[guglovich]

- Experimental support for automated installation and startup in cloud environments without an administrator has been added. To initialize and configure the environment at first boot, the package tiny-cloud (analog of cloud-init, consuming fewer resources and using a minimal number of dependencies) is used, developed by the Alpine project. Tiny-cloud handles such tasks as extending root FS to available disk space (installation is done to partition marked cidata), hostname setup, raising network interfaces and configuring networking based on metadata from cloud provider, setting up SSH keys, saving user data to file. Of the cloud environments, AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure, GCP (Google Cloud Platform), OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) and NoCloud (cloud-init NoCloud provider) are supported.

- The precompiled binary files for Python (pyc files from the __pycache__ directory) are put into separate packages which can be uninstalled to save disk space (you should specify "!pyc" when starting the apk).

- Instead of pipewire-media-session, the sound session manager WirePlumber is used to configure sound devices and manage the routing of sound streams. WirePlumber allows you to manage the multimedia node graph in PipeWire, configure audio devices and manage the routing of audio streams.