Alpine Linux 3.14 Security Advisory: KDE Plasma 5.22 and QEMU 6.0

Alpine Linux 3.14: KDE Plasma 5.22 and QEMU 6.0 Security Update

Jun 17, 2021 •

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The security-oriented Alpine Linux distro has been updated to version 3.14, a new stable release featuring KDE Plasma 5.22, QEMU 6.0, and more!

Five months in the works, Alpine Linux 3.14 is Alpine 3 as another big update for this security-oriented distribution, featuring the latest and greatest KDE Plasma 5.22 desktop environment series, along with the KDE Gear 21.04.2 software suite, for those who want to install the KDE Plasma desktop.

But, Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution designed for servers, firewalls, routers, VPNs, etc., so it comes with major updates for packages needed for these type of setups. These include Lua 5.4.3, HAProxy 2.4.0, nginx 1.20.0, njs 0.5.3, Node.js 14.17.0, PostgreSQL 13.3, Python 3.9.5, QEMU 6.0.0, R 4.1.0, and Zabbix 5.4.1.

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