diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index e1f67631d..e03f6e5d5 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@ services: docker
 env:
   - VERSION=3.7-rc VARIANT=stretch
   - VERSION=3.7-rc VARIANT=stretch/slim
-  - VERSION=3.7-rc VARIANT=alpine3.6
+  - VERSION=3.7-rc VARIANT=alpine3.7
   - VERSION=3.6 VARIANT=stretch
   - VERSION=3.6 VARIANT=stretch/slim
   - VERSION=3.6 VARIANT=jessie
   - VERSION=3.6 VARIANT=jessie/slim
+  - VERSION=3.6 VARIANT=alpine3.7
   - VERSION=3.6 VARIANT=alpine3.6
   - VERSION=3.6 VARIANT=alpine3.4
   - VERSION=3.5 VARIANT=jessie
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ env:
   - VERSION=2.7 VARIANT=jessie
   - VERSION=2.7 VARIANT=jessie/slim
   - VERSION=2.7 VARIANT=wheezy
+  - VERSION=2.7 VARIANT=alpine3.7
   - VERSION=2.7 VARIANT=alpine3.6
   - VERSION=2.7 VARIANT=alpine3.4
 
diff --git a/2.7/alpine3.7/Dockerfile b/2.7/alpine3.7/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5b0903a4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2.7/alpine3.7/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+FROM alpine:3.7
+
+# ensure local python is preferred over distribution python
+ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
+
+# http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
+# > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
+ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+
+# install ca-certificates so that HTTPS works consistently
+# the other runtime dependencies for Python are installed later
+RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates
+
+ENV GPG_KEY C01E1CAD5EA2C4F0B8E3571504C367C218ADD4FF
+ENV PYTHON_VERSION 2.7.14
+
+RUN set -ex \
+	&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps \
+		gnupg \
+		libressl \
+		tar \
+		xz \
+	\
+	&& wget -O python.tar.xz "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz" \
+	&& wget -O python.tar.xz.asc "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz.asc" \
+	&& export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)" \
+	&& gpg --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys "$GPG_KEY" \
+	&& gpg --batch --verify python.tar.xz.asc python.tar.xz \
+	&& rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME" python.tar.xz.asc \
+	&& mkdir -p /usr/src/python \
+	&& tar -xJC /usr/src/python --strip-components=1 -f python.tar.xz \
+	&& rm python.tar.xz \
+	\
+	&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps  \
+		bzip2-dev \
+		coreutils \
+		dpkg-dev dpkg \
+		gcc \
+		gdbm-dev \
+		libc-dev \
+		linux-headers \
+		make \
+		ncurses-dev \
+		libressl \
+		libressl-dev \
+		pax-utils \
+		readline-dev \
+		sqlite-dev \
+		tcl-dev \
+		tk \
+		tk-dev \
+		zlib-dev \
+# add build deps before removing fetch deps in case there's overlap
+	&& apk del .fetch-deps \
+	\
+	&& cd /usr/src/python \
+	&& gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)" \
+	&& ./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--enable-shared \
+		--enable-unicode=ucs4 \
+	&& make -j "$(nproc)" \
+	&& make install \
+	\
+	&& runDeps="$( \
+		scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' --recursive /usr/local \
+			| tr ',' '\n' \
+			| sort -u \
+			| awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
+	)" \
+	&& apk add --virtual .python-rundeps $runDeps \
+	&& apk del .build-deps \
+	\
+	&& find /usr/local -depth \
+		\( \
+			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests \) \) \
+			-o \
+			\( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) \) \
+		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' + \
+	&& rm -rf /usr/src/python
+
+# if this is called "PIP_VERSION", pip explodes with "ValueError: invalid truth value '<VERSION>'"
+ENV PYTHON_PIP_VERSION 9.0.1
+
+RUN set -ex; \
+	\
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps libressl; \
+	\
+	wget -O get-pip.py 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py'; \
+	\
+	apk del .fetch-deps; \
+	\
+	python get-pip.py \
+		--disable-pip-version-check \
+		--no-cache-dir \
+		"pip==$PYTHON_PIP_VERSION" \
+	; \
+	pip --version; \
+	\
+	find /usr/local -depth \
+		\( \
+			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests \) \) \
+			-o \
+			\( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) \) \
+		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' +; \
+	rm -f get-pip.py
+
+CMD ["python2"]
diff --git a/3.6/alpine3.7/Dockerfile b/3.6/alpine3.7/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0fb380834
--- /dev/null
+++ b/3.6/alpine3.7/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "update.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM alpine:3.7
+
+# ensure local python is preferred over distribution python
+ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
+
+# http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
+# > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
+ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+
+# install ca-certificates so that HTTPS works consistently
+# the other runtime dependencies for Python are installed later
+RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates
+
+ENV GPG_KEY 0D96DF4D4110E5C43FBFB17F2D347EA6AA65421D
+ENV PYTHON_VERSION 3.6.3
+
+RUN set -ex \
+	&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps \
+		gnupg \
+		libressl \
+		tar \
+		xz \
+	\
+	&& wget -O python.tar.xz "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz" \
+	&& wget -O python.tar.xz.asc "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz.asc" \
+	&& export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)" \
+	&& gpg --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys "$GPG_KEY" \
+	&& gpg --batch --verify python.tar.xz.asc python.tar.xz \
+	&& rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME" python.tar.xz.asc \
+	&& mkdir -p /usr/src/python \
+	&& tar -xJC /usr/src/python --strip-components=1 -f python.tar.xz \
+	&& rm python.tar.xz \
+	\
+	&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps  \
+		bzip2-dev \
+		coreutils \
+		dpkg-dev dpkg \
+		expat-dev \
+		gcc \
+		gdbm-dev \
+		libc-dev \
+		libffi-dev \
+		linux-headers \
+		make \
+		ncurses-dev \
+		libressl \
+		libressl-dev \
+		pax-utils \
+		readline-dev \
+		sqlite-dev \
+		tcl-dev \
+		tk \
+		tk-dev \
+		xz-dev \
+		zlib-dev \
+# add build deps before removing fetch deps in case there's overlap
+	&& apk del .fetch-deps \
+	\
+	&& cd /usr/src/python \
+	&& gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)" \
+	&& ./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions \
+		--enable-shared \
+		--with-system-expat \
+		--with-system-ffi \
+		--without-ensurepip \
+	&& make -j "$(nproc)" \
+	&& make install \
+	\
+	&& runDeps="$( \
+		scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' --recursive /usr/local \
+			| tr ',' '\n' \
+			| sort -u \
+			| awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
+	)" \
+	&& apk add --virtual .python-rundeps $runDeps \
+	&& apk del .build-deps \
+	\
+	&& find /usr/local -depth \
+		\( \
+			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests \) \) \
+			-o \
+			\( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) \) \
+		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' + \
+	&& rm -rf /usr/src/python
+
+# make some useful symlinks that are expected to exist
+RUN cd /usr/local/bin \
+	&& ln -s idle3 idle \
+	&& ln -s pydoc3 pydoc \
+	&& ln -s python3 python \
+	&& ln -s python3-config python-config
+
+# if this is called "PIP_VERSION", pip explodes with "ValueError: invalid truth value '<VERSION>'"
+ENV PYTHON_PIP_VERSION 9.0.1
+
+RUN set -ex; \
+	\
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps libressl; \
+	\
+	wget -O get-pip.py 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py'; \
+	\
+	apk del .fetch-deps; \
+	\
+	python get-pip.py \
+		--disable-pip-version-check \
+		--no-cache-dir \
+		"pip==$PYTHON_PIP_VERSION" \
+	; \
+	pip --version; \
+	\
+	find /usr/local -depth \
+		\( \
+			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests \) \) \
+			-o \
+			\( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) \) \
+		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' +; \
+	rm -f get-pip.py
+
+CMD ["python3"]
diff --git a/3.7-rc/alpine3.6/Dockerfile b/3.7-rc/alpine3.7/Dockerfile
similarity index 99%
rename from 3.7-rc/alpine3.6/Dockerfile
rename to 3.7-rc/alpine3.7/Dockerfile
index ff4b9302b..e5da36ccb 100644
--- a/3.7-rc/alpine3.6/Dockerfile
+++ b/3.7-rc/alpine3.7/Dockerfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
 #
 
-FROM alpine:3.6
+FROM alpine:3.7
 
 # ensure local python is preferred over distribution python
 ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
diff --git a/update.sh b/update.sh
index 4265449b5..b45635974 100755
--- a/update.sh
+++ b/update.sh
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ for version in "${versions[@]}"; do
 	echo "$version: $fullVersion"
 
 	for v in \
-		alpine{3.4,3.6} \
+		alpine{3.4,3.6,3.7} \
 		{wheezy,jessie,stretch}{/slim,/onbuild,} \
 		windows/nanoserver-{1709,sac2016} \
 		windows/windowsservercore-{1709,ltsc2016} \