Alpine Linux 3.6 Security-Oriented OS Gets First Point Release with Linux 4.9.30

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Just one week after unveiling the final release of Alpine Linux 3.6 as a major update bringing lots of exciting new technologies and functionality, Natanael Copa announced the availability of the first point release, versioned 3.6.1.

Alpine Linux 3.6.1 is here with the long-term supported Linux 4.9.30 kernel, Samba 4.6.4, CMake 3.8.1, strongSwan 5.5.3, Mosquitto 1.4.12, v4l-utils 1.12.5, awall 1.4.3, libplist 2.0.0, and security fixes for Xen, tiff, OpenLDAP, PHP 5, Neovim, shadow, apk-tools, OpenJDK 8, lua-cjson, man-pages, libxcmcp, and libtasn1 packages.

The release is based on the latest musl 3.6 branch and adds GNU Wget as a dependency of LXC’s lxc-downloads command. As expected, all supported kernels were rebased on the Linux 4.9.30 LTS kernel, including… (read more)

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