14 DAY TRIAL // Alpine Linux development team announced on July 14 the availability for download of the second maintenance release of the server-oriented Alpine Linux 3.2 operating system.
According to the announcement, Alpine Linux 3.2.2 moves to the recently released Linux 3.18.18 LTS kernel, which is a massive update that patches multiple critical security vulnerabilities and adds support for new hardware components.
"The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 3.2.2 of its Alpine Linux operating system. This is a bugfix release of the v3.2 musl based branch. This release is based on the 3.18.18 kernel that has some critical security fixes," reads the message.
Alpine Linux 3.2.2 also includes several updated packages, such as OpenVPN 2.3.7, acf-provisioning 0.8.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1d, Quagga-nhrp 2015.07.14 snapshot, py-django 1.8.3, as well as zfs-utils 0.6.4.2.
Several issues were fixed
In addition to the new package versions and the upgrade to Linux kernel 3.18.18 LTS, the Alpine Linux 3.2.2 operating system fixes some of the issues reported by users since the previous release of the distribution, Alpine Linux 3.2.1.
Among these, we can mention a fix for an issue with the sysctl init.c script, various fixes in alpine-baselayout, for which the /etc/modules-load.d directory was created, a fix for an issue with Btrfs root in setup-disk, and a fix for a problem with generated utsrelease.h.
Moreover, the spl package was upgraded to version 0.6.4.2 and renamed to spl-utils, the ppp package was added to network-extras, the ifupdown post-deinstall/upgrade script was removed, and the EncFS and rlog packages were move from testing.
Last but not least, fprobe-ulog was migrated to the NFLOG API (Application Programming Interface), and the NFLOG patch was fixed to no longer terminate prematurely. Download Alpine Linux 3.2.2 right now from Softpedia.