What changed, and why it matters
This commit simply updates the version number of the Alpine Linux container used in Bitcoin Core's automated testing from Alpine 3.23 to Alpine 3.24. It is a routine CI (Continuous Integration) maintenance change with no visible security relevance.
No security action needed. Treat as routine CI maintenance.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The diff changes one line in ci/test/00_setup_env_native_alpine_musl.sh, setting CI_IMAGE_NAME_TAG from mirror.gcr.io/alpine:3.23 to mirror.gcr.io/alpine:3.24. No other configuration, packages, or behavior is modified. This is a dependency/version bump for the Alpine musl CI job.
Changed components
ci/test/00_setup_env_native_alpine_musl.shInspect captured patch +1 / −1
diff --git a/ci/test/00_setup_env_native_alpine_musl.sh b/ci/test/00_setup_env_native_alpine_musl.sh
index 3bad08d6..3801dfec 100755
--- a/ci/test/00_setup_env_native_alpine_musl.sh
+++ b/ci/test/00_setup_env_native_alpine_musl.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
export CONTAINER_NAME=ci_native_alpine_musl
-export CI_IMAGE_NAME_TAG="mirror.gcr.io/alpine:3.23"
+export CI_IMAGE_NAME_TAG="mirror.gcr.io/alpine:3.24"
export CI_BASE_PACKAGES="build-base musl-dev pkgconf curl ccache make ninja git python3-dev py3-pip which patch xz procps rsync util-linux bison e2fsprogs cmake dash linux-headers"
export PIP_PACKAGES="--break-system-packages pyzmq pycapnp"
export DEP_OPTS="DEBUG=1"
Why this scored 15/100
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