---
title: 'Alpine 3.5.0 released'
date: 2016-12-22
---

# Alpine 3.5.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.5.0, the first in
the v3.5 stable series.

## New features and noteworthy changes

- Switch from OpenSSL to LibreSSL
- Support for aarch64 (uboot only for now)
- Support for ZFS as root
- PostgreSQL update to 9.6.x. See the [PostgreSQL documentation][0] for upgrade
  instructions
- Samba 4.5.3
- GTK+3.0 3.22.5
- glib 2.50.2
- Support for [R][1], [JRuby][2] and [OCaml][3]
- Better python3 support
- The nodejs package was renamed to nodejs-current and moved to the community
  repository. The nodejs-lts package was renamed to nodejs. This means that
  you get the LTS version if you do `apk add nodejs`.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/upgrading.html
[1]: https://www.r-project.org/
[2]: http://jruby.org/
[3]: http://www.ocaml.org/

## Desktop applications that have been upgraded in v3.5 include:

- xorg-server 1.18.4
- libreoffice 5.2.3.3

## Credits

- Thanks GIGABYTE for donating two ARM buildservers (xgene and thunderx platforms).
- Thanks to everyone sending in patches, bug reports, new and updated aports.

The full list of changes can be found in the
[git log](http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/log/?h=v3.5.0) and
[bug tracker](http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/versions/107).

## Commit statistics

5742 commits made by 133 contributors
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1711	Natanael Copa
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   1	Mikhail Ivko
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   1	Linux User
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