postpone your upgrades: Alpine shipping Python 3.12

April 12, 20241 min. read

Python 3.12 is landing in Alpine edge, woohoo! However this means the builders have a lot of work to do to rebuild all the Python libraries and other related packages, as a result the repos may be in an inconsistent state for a while. We suggest postponing any upgrades for the next few hours (or maybe a day).

For the technically inclined, the builder status can be seen at https://build.alpinelinux.org/

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