Alpine 2.7.0 released

We are pleased to announce Alpine Linux 2.7.0, the first release in v2.7 stable series.

Since v2.6, among the various bugfixes, several packages have been upgraded:

• kernel is based on 3.10.18
• php 5.5.5
• qemu 1.6.1
• xen 4.3.1
• postgresql 9.3.1
• samba 4.1.0
• nsd 4.0.0
• asterisk-11.6.0
• bluez 5.7
• openssh 6.4p1
• lua 5.2.2

Some of the desktop applications that got upgraded and are available for v2.7:

• abiword 3.0.0
• firefox 25.0
• gnumeric 1.12.8
• evince 3.10
• virt-manager 0.10.0

The full lists of changes can be found in the git log and bug tracker.

Commit statistics:

   348  Bartłomiej Piotrowski
     2  Borys Zhukov
   125  Carlo Landmeter
    27  Dubiousjim
   586  Fabian Affolter
    84  Francesco Colista
     3  IT Offshore
     4  Jeff Bilyk
     7  Kaarle Ritvanen
    64  Leonardo Arena
     5  Leslie P. Polzer
     1  Marcin Mankiewicz
     2  Mika Havela
  1951  Natanael Copa
     3  Nathan Angelacos
     1  Pablo Castorino
     3  Paul Kilar
     4  Sam Dodrill
    58  Ted Trask
   319  Timo Teräs
     2  Vitaliy Tokarev
    54  William Pitcock
    24  prymeroot