---
title: 'Alpine 2.4.2 released'
date: 2012-05-18
---

# Alpine 2.4.2 released
The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce immediate availablity of
version 2.4.2 of its Alpine Linux operating system.

This is a bugfix release. Some of the news are:
<ul>
<li>Kernels upgraded to 3.3.6</li>
<li>Fix for live USB upgrades (<a href="http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/1171">#1171</a>)</li>
<li>Fix for installing packages via ACF (<a href="http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/1131">#1131</a>)</li>
<li>Fix for ifup/ifdown to support metric keyword (<a href=""></a>)</li>
<li>OpenSSL security fix (<a href="http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/1151">CVE-2012-2333</a>)</li>
</ul>
The full lists of changes can be found in the <a href="http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/log/?h=v2.4.2">git log</a>
and <a href="http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/versions/show/46">bug tracker</a>.