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Description

Alpine is added to the CONTRIBUTING > Version Updates document section to specify that the latest two Alpine Linux versions are used.

Motivation and Context

The CONTRIBUTING > Version Updates document section does not cover updates to Alpine, leaving it unclear how they should be handled. In practice, and according to #2072 (comment):

We only support 2 (Alpine releases) at the recommendation of the Official Images repo as there is a lot of build required for these images, and there is no upstream support or binaries for Alpine that would reduce that workload if more were added back

https://alpinelinux.org/releases/ states:

Each May and November we make a release branch from edge. The main repository is typically supported for 2 years and the community repository is supported until next stable release.

Branch Date docker-node End-of-support
v3.23 2025-12-03 Active 2027-11-01
v3.22 2025-05-30 Active 2027-05-01
v3.21 2024-12-05 Removed 2026-11-01

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Types of changes

  • Documentation
  • Version change (Update, remove or add more Node.js versions)
  • Variant change (Update, remove or add more variants, or versions of variants)
  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Other (none of the above)

Checklist

  • My code follows the code style of this project.
  • My change requires a change to the documentation.
  • I have updated the documentation accordingly.
  • I have read the CONTRIBUTING.md document.
  • All new and existing tests passed.

@MikeMcC399 MikeMcC399 marked this pull request as ready for review June 4, 2026 07:58
@MikeMcC399 MikeMcC399 requested review from nschonni and sxa June 4, 2026 07:59
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Clarify Alpine version support policy

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