ZSH, GNU Tar, Musl, and Apache were also updated

Nov 9, 2016 22:30 GMT  ·  By

A new stable release of the open-source, server-oriented Alpine Linux operating system has been announced on the 8th of November 2016, bringing a brand new kernel and many up-to-date components.

Alpine Linux 3.4.6 is the sixth maintenance update in the stable 3.4 series of the GNU/Linux distribution used in numerous small or big server environments worldwide, and it comes only two weeks after the 3.4.5 release to bump the kernel version to the latest upstream release, namely Linux kernel 4.4.30 LTS, which was a minor update patching a bug in Linux kernel 4.4.29 LTS and older builds.

"The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 3.4.6 of its Alpine Linux operating system. This is a bugfix release of the v3.4 musl based branch, based on linux-4.4.30 kernels and it contains important security fixes for the kernel. The full lists of changes can be found in the git log and bug tracker," reads the announcement.

PHP 5.6.27, cURL 7.51.0, and Node.js 6.7.0 landed as well

Besides getting a new Linux kernel version, the Alpine Linux 3.4.6 maintenance update also lands a bunch of up-to-date server-oriented components, among which we can mention PHP 5.6.27 general-purpose scripting language, cURL 7.51.0 tool for client-side URL transfers, BIND 9.10.4-P4 DNS server, Node.js 6.7.0 server-side JavaScript environment, and Wipe 2.3.1 file and block device wiping utility.

The Squid caching and forwarding web proxy was updated to version 3.5.20, which won't use the "-march=native" setting, and the Quagga routing software suite was upgraded to 1.1.0 and injected with the latest patches. Several other components received fixes or improvements as well, including BusyBox, Musl, ZSH, GNU Tar, Apache, Guile, and Python.

Last but not least, the acf-dhcp and acf-provisioning components were upgraded to versions 0.9.1 and 0.9.5, respectively. You can download Alpine Linux 3.4.6 right now through our web portal, and please update your installations as soon as possible. If you need to know more technical details about the changes implemented in this release, don't hesitate to study the git log and bug tracker entries listed above.