2025-12-03

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.23.0, the first release in the v3.23 stable series.

Highlights

• Linux kernel 6.18
• GCC 15
• LLVM 21
• Node.js (LTS) 24.11
• Rust 1.91
• Valkey 9.0
• ZFS 2.4.0-rc4
• Crystal 1.18
• Docker 29
• .NET 10.0
• GNOME 49
• Go 1.25
• ISC Kea 3.0
• KDE Plasma 6.5.3
• LXQt 2.3.0
• OpenJDK 25
• Perl 5.42
• PHP 8.5
• PostgreSQL 18
• Qt 6.10
• Sway 1.11

Significant changes

apk-tools v3

Version 3 of apk is now ready for Alpine v3.23.0. This should be a safe and seamless upgrade from v2, but might have breaking changes if you use libapk. The package manager has been upgraded to v3, but keeping the v2 index and package format for now.

See apk-tools v3.0.0 release notes for more details.

linux-stable replaces linux-edge

linux-stable replaces linux-edge with an identical configuration as linux-lts while following stable instead of long-term releases. On systems with linux-edge installed, apk automatically installs linux-stable as a replacement.

See the wiki for details about this release.

Upgrade notes

As always, make sure to use apk upgrade --available when switching between major versions.

We previously announced that 3.23 would be /usr-merged, but due to technical challenges this has been postponed to a later release. A new timeline will be published later.

Users with / and /usr on separate filesystems (which is unsupported) will still need to take special care. See the wiki for details.

Changes

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

Credits

Thanks to everyone sending patches, bug reports, new and updated aports, and to everyone helping with documentation, maintaining the infrastructure, or contributing in any other way!

Thanks to GIGABYTE, Linode, Fastly, IBM, Equinix Metal, vpsFree, AlpineLinuxSupport.com, CloudOn, Osso B.V., HorizonIQ, Cherry Servers and NetMountains for providing us with hardware and hosting.

aports Commit Contributors

Achill Gilgenast
Adam Jensen
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Akihiro Suda
Alex Denes
Alex McGrath
Alex Xu (Hello71)
Alexander Edland
Alexandre Marquet
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Amelia Clarke
André Klitzing
Andrej Kolčin
Andres Almiray
Andrew Hills
Andrew Palardy
Andrij Abyzov
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