Alpine Linux 3.23 is out today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Linux distribution built around musl libc and BusyBox that has become quite popular for containers and embedded uses.

With Alpine Linux 3.23 it’s powered by the new Linux 6.18 LTS kernel as well as moving to the GCC 15 compiler and having LLVM 21 available. Plus a variety of other software updates like Rust 1.91, Valkey 9.0, OpenZFS 2.4.0-rc4, Docker 29, OpenJDK Java 25, PHP 8.5, Perl 5.42, PostgreSQL 18, and many other key package updates. On the desktop side there is GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.5.3, LXQt 2.3, and Sway 1.11.