{"id":3371,"date":"2025-12-04T04:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/alpine-linux-3-23-launches-featuring-linux-kernel-6-18-lts-gnome-49-and-kde-plasma-6-5\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T04:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:00:54","slug":"alpine-linux-3-23-launches-featuring-linux-kernel-6-18-lts-gnome-49-and-kde-plasma-6-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/alpine-linux-3-23-launches-featuring-linux-kernel-6-18-lts-gnome-49-and-kde-plasma-6-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpine Linux 3.23 Launches: Featuring Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, GNOME 49, and KDE Plasma 6.5!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alpine Linux team has announced the release of Alpine Linux 3.23, marking a significant update to this independent and security-focused GNU\/Linux distribution. This version is powered by the recently introduced <strong>Linux kernel 6.18 LTS<\/strong>, which will be supported until December 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Alpine Linux 3.23 introduces a variety of enhancements, including updates to major desktop environments. Users can now enjoy <strong>GNOME 49<\/strong>, <strong>KDE Plasma 6.5<\/strong>, and <strong>LXQt 2.3<\/strong>. Additionally, it includes support for the Sway 1.11 tiling Wayland compositor, which serves as a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager within X11.<\/p>\n<p>One of the critical changes in this release is the replacement of the <code>linux-edge<\/code> kernel with the <code>linux-stable<\/code> version. This new kernel maintains a configuration similar to the long-term support (LTS) version but follows a stable kernel series instead. For users currently running the <code>linux-edge<\/code> kernel, the package manager (<code>apk<\/code>) will automatically switch to <code>linux-stable<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of package management, Alpine 3.23 includes an updated version 3 of its <code>apk<\/code> package manager. The upgrade from version 2 is claimed to be safe and seamless, although users relying on the <code>libapk<\/code> library may encounter breaking changes.<\/p>\n<p>The system&#8217;s underlying components have also been updated, featuring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GCC 15<\/li>\n<li>LLVM 21<\/li>\n<li>Node.js (LTS) 24.11<\/li>\n<li>Rust 1.91<\/li>\n<li>Valkey 9.0<\/li>\n<li>OpenZFS 2.4.0-rc4<\/li>\n<li>Docker 29<\/li>\n<li>.NET 10.0<\/li>\n<li>Go 1.25<\/li>\n<li>ISC Kea 3.0<\/li>\n<li>OpenJDK 25<\/li>\n<li>Perl 5.42<\/li>\n<li>PHP 8.5<\/li>\n<li>PostgreSQL 18<\/li>\n<li>Qt 6.10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alpine Linux 3.23 is now available for download from the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/alpinelinux.org\/downloads\/\">official website<\/a>. It can be acquired in several editions, including Standard, Extended, Netboot, Raspberry Pi, Generic ARM, and Mini Root Filesystem versions, covering various architectures such as 64-bit (x86_64), AArch64 (ARM64), ARMv7, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Current users of Alpine Linux can upgrade their systems through the terminal by running <code>apk upgrade --available<\/code>. 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