Alpine Linux 3.8.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.8.0, the first in the v3.8 stable series.

New features and noteworthy new packages

• Support netboot on all architectures
• Add arm64 (aarch64) Raspberry Pi image
• Add support for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
• Support ISO image on s390x (KVM installation)
• End of support for hardened kernel (unofficial Grsecurity)
• Support for Crystal language

Significant updates

• Linux 4.14
• Go 1.10
• Node.js 8.11 (LTS)
• Rust 1.26
• Ruby 2.5
• PHP 7.2
• ghc 8.4
• OCaml 4.06
• R 3.5
• JRuby 9.2

Credits

Thanks to everyone sending in patches, bug reports, and new and updated aports!

Thanks to GIGABYTE, Scaleway, Fastly, IBM, Packet, vpsFree and RapidSwitch for providing us with hardware and hosting.

Changes

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

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