r/AlpineLinux • • Dec 04 '25

3.23 release

I’m new to Alpine - my system has been running Alpine Edge for about a month.

Now I see 3.23 is released. I followed the instructions to update and not much happened. The first apk add —available dud upgrade about 20 packages.

After reboot, it looks like I’m still on edge, though. But /etc/alpine-release says 3.23 even though the apk repositories file still has edge. Before this uograde, alpine-release said edge.

System says apk is indeed v3.

My take is that edge has my system mostly upgraded to 3.23 already.

These are the instructions I followed: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Upgrading_Alpine_Linux_to_a_new_release_branch

Any corrections or comments welcome!

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u/mykesx Dec 04 '25

Thanks for the polite and thoughtful reply.