Is it harmful to use alpine repositories more recent than 2023-05-19?

[larsks]

It looks like ish is pinned to a specific snapshot of alpine linux:

localhost:~# cat /etc/apk/repositories
# This file contains pinned repositories managed by iSH. If the /ish directory
# exists, iSH uses the metadata stored in it to keep this file up to date (by
# overwriting the contents on boot.)
http://apk.ish.app/v3.14-2023-05-19/main
http://apk.ish.app/v3.14-2023-05-19/community

Is there a specific reason this hasn't been updated to a newer snapshot? I've manually updated /etc/apk/repositories to use https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.20/main (ditto for community) and it seems to work fine. Have I set myself up for a nasty surprise?

[larsks]

Answering my own question:

Yes, I have set myself up for a nasty surprise! While many of the updated commands work, some fail with:

localhost:~# vim
Vim: Caught deadly signal SYS
Vim: Finished.
Bad system call

Which isn't surprising. I was just hoping for more recent versions of git and vim :).