We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.12.0, the first in
the v3.12 stable series.

New features and noteworthy new packages
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* Initial support for mips64 (big endian).
* Initial support for D programming language.

Significant updates
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* Linux 5.4.43
* GCC 9.3.0
* LLVM 10.0.0
* Git 2.24.3
* Node.js 12.16.3
* Nextcloud 18.0.3
* PostgreSQL 12.3
* QEMU 5.0.0
* Zabbix 5.0.0

Upgrade notes
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* After upgrading to OpenSSH >= 8.2_p1, the server will not accept new
  connections until it is restarted

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], [Linode][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 [wiki][8],  [git log][9] and [bug tracker][10].


[1]: http://b2b.gigabyte.com/
[2]: https://linode.com
[3]: https://www.fastly.com/
[4]: https://ibm.com/
[5]: https://packet.net/
[6]: https://vpsfree.org
[7]: https://www.rapidswitch.com/
[8]: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Release_Notes_for_Alpine_3.12.0
[9]: http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/log/?h=v3.12.0
[10]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=closed&milestone_title=3.12.0