We're happy to announce that Alpine 3.19.9, 3.20.8, 3.21.5 and 3.22.2 are released.

These updates include security fixes for OpenSSL addressing the September 30, 2025 advisory (CVE-2025-9230, CVE-2025-9231, CVE-2025-9232).

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.19.9-3.20.8-3.21.5-3.22.2-released.html

#AlpineLinux

@ncopa congratulations, despite the protestations from some. Please consider keeping a genuine X server. #AlpineLinux is a very good distro.

Alpine Linux is moving to a /usr-merged filesystem layout.

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2025-10-01-usr-merge.html

#AlpineLinux #usrmerge

You also need to avoid those broken OpenSSH packages, which were compiled against the broken OpenSSL:

- 3.22: openssh-10.0_p1-r8
- edge: openssh-10.0_p1-r9

#AlpineLinux

OpenSSL 3.5.3 introduces a regression that makes ssh break on openssl version check.
https://github.com/openssl/project/issues/1621

If you use Alpine Linux:
- 3.22: make sure you get >=3.5.3-r1
- edge: make sure you get >=3.5.3-r2

Those include backports of upstream fixes.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

#AlpineLinux #OpenSSL #regression

@agowa338
I think it is a #PostmarketOS thing and not Alpine related.

#alpinelinux #alpine #alpinelinux #systemd

Also since when does #alpinelinux use systemd? I didn't even know stuff was packaged to work properly with it there.

#alpine #alpinelinux #systemd

@ariadne thank you for the explination and any OS is free to make its choices based on whatever rationale. I support #AlpineLinux in what the team wants to do. We all make choices based on the information at the time, not all decisions will sort everyone and no criticism was intended. Understand that XLibre is a particularly devisive topic but appreciate your answer also states why X itself is problematic long term.

@ariadne greater inclusion of actual systemd bits, the X compositor under Wayland in lieu of XLibre. The /usr thing doesn't bother me as long as the transition is painless. The last two or so releases appear to not have been as rigorously tested as previous one but that is subjective. All not helped by some of the wider politics and corporate 'involvement' in the Linux world.

#AlpineLinux is a wonderful OS and reliable with a good mix of software available. However, feel the team is struggling to expand and adapt as is becomes and more popular OS (Postmarket adding to the workload but contributing some too). Lots of people clearly doing good work. A loss of pure X and systemd components being added has triggered questions about whether #AlpineLinux is the right choice for the future. My contributions to the project are small and am not asking the project to change direction as that is wrong, just sharing an opinion for a user of it on multiple archs, using it as a server and desktop on fixed and portable devices. The wider issues in the 'Linux' community are more troubling and likely triggered the itch.

So, search is on for a new OS which feel could well be a BSD or Unix.

Hope that helps explain. Feel free to PM me if not or ask specifics here.

@jutty I run #AlpineLinux a lot as server and desktop. The only thing I have compiled for it is xst. It is a great and fast system as you say with a very decent software selection.

However, it feels lile the core team is a little overwhelmed as Alpine gains in popularity. For me, some of the design decisions being made I am not so comfortable with and so my journey BSD/Unix has started.

We are simplifying the Alpine developer onboarding process.

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2025-08-30-new-alpine-developers-process.html

#AlpineLinux #FOSS #maintainers

For days I have been trying to get a working config for spacemit k1. OrangePi RV2 boots now, but Bananapi BPI-F3 does not, and I have no idea why.

#RISCV #AlpineLinux

@resingm I don’t think there are any books on Alpine Linux. What should such a book include or cover to be a great book?

#AlpineLinux

One slightly weird thing I had is that inbound #ipv6 traffic on both SSH and HTTPS was returning a "connection reset by peer" for a while. It seems to be working now, but if some IPv6 folks can check https://cablespaghetti.dev loads properly over v6 for them now, it would put my mind at rest.

Chimera Linux has been using apk 3 for a long time. That's helped expose a few bugs, so hopefully the Alpine switch is smooth.

https://fosstodon.org/@ncopa/114778452278033501 #AlpineLinux #ChimeraLinux

apk-tools 3 was merged to #AlpineLinux edge. Hold on to your hats!

Some of the new things are listed here:
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/82593#note_520288

We'd like to welcome @fossdd and Mio as new Alpine Linux developers.

We really appreciate all the work they and the rest of the community have done.

#AlpineLinux

We talked about the roadmap for #AlpineLinux 3.23 yesterday. So far we have:

- apk-tools 3.0
- gcc 15
- python 3.13
- improve/clean up Alpine user handbook (we need volunteers for this)

See
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/17294 if you want help or have things you are working on that should be included.

We are planning to update apk-tools to 3.0 in edge repository on July 1, 2025.

We are keeping the apk 2 index and package formats for now, so everything *should* just work, but scripts parsing the output of apk may need to be adjusted.

#AlpineLinux

https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html

#snac #snac2 #alpinelinux #linux #raspberrypi

https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-static-site-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html

#raspberrypi #alpinelinux #linux

first linux regression in a while: an update from an #AlpineLinux package caused a driver .so file to be removed and now i can no longer run GDM, X11 or wayland 🫠

#AsahiLinux

Here's a script to backup to Backblaze B2 with just Jq as an additional dependency (and the included curl, tar, openssl etc.). It works so far...

https://gist.github.com/cablespaghetti/01862b9d8252223719cbe2586145f686