On edge of VM (almost three years of updating) and laptop (two months), alpine-base differs
The laptop also has community and testing, the VM server only main.
All report v3.8.0-4284-g5a7e6b2c, but on the VM i have
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#?0|sdaoden:/boot# apk info —who-owns /etc/os-release
/etc/os-release is owned by alpine-base-3.8.0-r0
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(it says 3.8.0) whereas on the laptop i have
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#?0|essex:/boot# apk info —who-owns /etc/os-release
/etc/os-release is owned by alpine-base-3.8.1-r0
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and it says 3.8.1.
(from redmine: issue id 9811, created on 2018-12-28, closed on 2019-06-19)