We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.24.0, the first release in the 3.24 stable series. Highlights: GRUB 2.14, LLVM 22, Rust 1.96, GNOME 50, Go 1.26, KDE Plasma 6.6, Qt 6.11, Sway 1.12, nginx 1.30. Significant changes: py3-setuptools has been upgraded to 82.0.0, which removed the deprecated pkg_resources module, projects that still depend on it will no longer work and should migrate to its successors; the qemu-binfmt service from qemu-openrc is deprecated in favor of binfmt.d config files from user mode qemu packages combined with the binfmt service; the installer (setup-alpine) now supports the Limine boot loader and has gained IPv6 support; the COSMIC desktop environment by System76 is now available in the community repository; GTK+ 3.0 has been moved from main to the community repository; additional GTK+ 2 and Qt 5 packages have been removed as part of ongoing deprecation efforts, libsoup 2 has also been removed.