Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released

Alpine Linux 3.24.0 has been released as the first stable version in the v3.24 series, featuring major software updates including GRUB 2.14, LLVM 22, Rust 1.96, GNOME 50, and KDE Plasma 6.6. Key improvements include enhanced installer support for the Limine boot loader and IPv6, automatic serial console configuration for headless setups, and the addition of the COSMIC desktop environment. The release also includes deprecations such as Python's pkg_resources module and the qemu-binfmt service, along with removals of GTK+ 3.0, GTK 2, Qt5, and libsoup 2 packages.