We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.9.0, the first
in the v3.9 stable series.

New features and noteworthy new packages
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* Support for armv7
* Switch from LibreSSL to OpenSSL
* Modloop is now being signed
* Improved GRUB support. GRUB users should check if their config is
  generated correctly and have emergency boot media prepared

Significant updates
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* Linux 4.19
* GCC 8.2.0
* Busybox 1.29
* musl libc 1.1.20
* Go 1.11.5
* LXC 3.1
* PostgreSQL 11.1
* Node.js 10.14.2
* Crystal 0.27
* Zabbix 4.0.3
* Nextcloud 15.0.2

Noteworthy removals
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* Firefox is only available on x86_64 due to Rust.


Credits
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Thanks to everyone sending in patches, bug reports, new and updated
aports, and to everyone helping with writing documentation, maintaining
the infrastructure, or has contributed in any other way!

Thanks to [GIGABYTE][1], [Scaleway][2], [Fastly][3], [IBM][4],
[Packet][5], [vpsFree][6] and [RapidSwitch][7] for providing us with
hardware and hosting.

Changes
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The full list of changes can be found in the [git log][8] and [bug
tracker][9].


[1]: http://b2b.gigabyte.com/
[2]: https://scaleway.com/
[3]: https://www.fastly.com/
[4]: https://ibm.com/
[5]: https://packet.net/
[6]: https://vpsfree.org
[7]: https://www.rapidswitch.com/
[8]: http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/log/?h=v3.9.0
[9]: https://bugs.alpinelinux.org/versions/127


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