The kernel incorporates patches from version 3.4.34

Mar 1, 2013 22:44 GMT  ·  By

The Alpine Team announced a few hours ago, March 1, that the Alpine Linux 2.5.4 Linux distribution is available for download.

Alpine Linux 2.5.4 is just a kernel security bug fix release, powered by a custom Linux kernel 3.6.11 that includes all stable kernel fixes up to version 3.4.34. Highlights of Alpine Linux 2.5.4:

• Linux Kernel has been upgraded to 3.6.11 with all the patches from 3.4.34; • Varnish has been updated to version 3.0.3; • Zabbix has been updated to version 2.0.5; • Added logrotate support to snmptt; • Upgraded OpenSSL to version 1.0.1e; • Pidgin has been updated to version 2.10.7; • Postfix and Postfix Admin have been updated to version 2.9.6 and 2.3.6, respectively; • Fixed setup-interfaces vlan-raw-device in alpine-conf; • Rebuild many packages agains Linux kernel 3.6.11.

More details can be found in the official release announcement.

Download Alpine Linux 2.5.4 right now from Softpedia.