After 5 years of development, Alpine Linux just merged apk v3 into edge! 🎉
There are some fantastic things in there, such as downloading packages before installing them (which we enabled by default), so that a flaky internet connection can't ever destroy your system again.
Also the version string apk reports changed slightly, leading to a bogus "downgrade attack" message in pmbootstrap:
> ERROR: Downloaded apk-tools-static-3.0.0_rc5_git20250613-r0.apk, but the apk binary inside that package reports to be version: 3.0.0_rc5_git20250613-r0! Looks like a downgrade attack from a malicious server! Switch the server (-m) and try again.
This and other incompatibilities have been fixed in pmbootstrap 3.5.1 and higher: