14 DAY TRIAL // On May 14, Natanael Copa announced the immediate availability for download of the fourth maintenance release of Alpine Linux 3.1, a terminal-based, server-oriented computer operating system.
According to the release notes, Alpine Linux 3.1.4 is now powered by Linux kernel 3.14.41 LTS and fixes a number of critical security vulnerabilities and bugs that have been discovered since the previous version of the operating system.
It also includes the MySQL 5.5.43 database with fixed checksums and removal of the merged patch. Besides, a libxml2 flag has been added to the Zabbix package for providing VMWare support. The PHP cURL module has been added to the ownCloud package.
"The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 3.1.4 of its Alpine Linux operating system," says Natanael Copa. "This is a bugfix release of the v3.1 musl based branch. This release is based on the 3.14.41 kernel which has some critical security fixes."
The Venom vulnerability has been patched in the QEMU packages
In addition to the changes mentioned above, Alpine Linux 3.1.4 enables the ALX driver in the Linux kernel packages, removes the mirror.pw/alpine mirror, upgrades the Xen packages to version 4.4.2 and adds several security fixes, and addresses finding NFS in /proc/mounts for OpenRC.
Furthermore, GnuPG has been updated to version 2.1.3, the Claws Mail software has gotten a fix for the RSSyl plugin and has been updated to version 3.11.1, the libxfont library has gotten a security upgrade to version 1.5.1, as well as the Less and PHP packages, to version 475 and 5.6.8 respectively.
Last but not least, directory traversal issues in bsdcpio have been patched for libarchive, and the cabextract 1.6, chrony 1.31.1, libtasn1 4.5, gd 2.1.1, Quassel 0.12.2, acf-freeswitch-vmail 0.4.1, acf-alpine-baselayout 0.12.1, and Asterisk 13.3.2 packages have been included. The Venom vulnerability has also been patched in the QEMU packages.
Download Alpine Linux 3.1.4 right now from Softpedia, where you will find live and installable ISO images for both 64-bit (x86_64) and 32-bit (x86) hardware platforms, as well as a couple of other editions of the Alpine Linux server-oriented operating system.