Alpine Linux 3.6.0 Released

<p>NEW FEATURES AND NOTEWORTHY NEW PACKAGES</p> <ul> <li>Support for 64-bit little-endian POWER machines (ppc64le)</li> <li>Support for 64-bit IBM z Systems (s390x)</li> <li>Rust 1.17.0 and Cargo 0.18.0</li> <li>GHC 8.0.2</li> <li>Julia 0.5.2</li> </ul> <p>SIGNIFICANT UPDATES</p> <ul> <li>GCC 6.3</li> <li>LLVM 4.0</li> <li>PHP 7.1</li> <li>Go 1.8</li> <li>Python 3.6</li> <li>LuaJIT 2.1beta3</li> <li>nginx 1.12</li> <li>Ruby 2.4</li> </ul> <p>NOTEWORTHY CHANGES</p> <ul> <li>The llvm package has been changed to be provided by a versioned llvm&lt;X&gt; package, which is presently llvm4;</li> <li>The -grsec kernel-related packages have been renamed to -hardened;</li> </ul> <p>DEVELOPMENT-RELATED CHANGES</p> <ul> <li>MD5 and SHA-1 hashes have been removed from APKBUILDs, being obsoleted by SHA-512; set -e is now implied in APKBUILDs, automatically failing the build upon unhandled failing commands;</li> <li>A check() function has been added to APKBUILDs that allows packages to run test suites after build(), ensuring no regressions have occurred. This has been implemented for a number of packages, and policy onward will be to have them either be present or explicitly opted-out of with good reasoning;</li> </ul> <p>CREDITS</p> <ul> <li>Thanks to everyone sending in patches, bug reports, new and updated aports</li> <li>Thanks to GIGABYTE, Scaleway, Fastly, IBM, Packet, and vpsFree for providing us with hardware and hosting.</li> </ul>

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