OK, so this basically says "you can update if nothing breaks", right?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies
Alpine is now at 1.10 and its developers try very hard not to break
configurations, but I don't want to set a bad precedent. My
impression is that if this was EL they would not do a 1.00->1.10
update unless someone really important wanted it.
Release notes are here for details:
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/changes/1.00-to-1.10.html