diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a2443fc..41e0823 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ For major (breaking) changes - **version 4, 3 and 2** - see end of page.
 
 | Version        | Date           | Comment  |
 | -------------- | -------------- | -------- |
+| 5.8.7          | 2021-09-01     | `processes()` fix alpine linux |
 | 5.8.6          | 2021-08-26     | `cpu()` improved detection (win) |
 | 5.8.5          | 2021-08-26     | `osInfo()` hyper-v detection fix (win VM) |
 | 5.8.4          | 2021-08-26     | `graphics()` added vendor (macOS) |
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0cf3418..a607d82 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   [![Sponsoring][sponsor-badge]][sponsor-url]
   [![MIT license][license-img]][license-url]
 
-This is amazing. Started as a small project just for myself, it now has > 10,000 lines of code, > 400 versions published, up to 3 mio downloads per month, > 40 mio downloads overall. Thank you to all who contributed to this project!
+This is amazing. Started as a small project just for myself, it now has > 10,000 lines of code, > 400 versions published, up to 3 mio downloads per month, > 45 mio downloads overall. Thank you to all who contributed to this project!
 
 ## New Version 5.0
 
diff --git a/docs/history.html b/docs/history.html
index bef4e20..f533d2d 100644
--- a/docs/history.html
+++ b/docs/history.html
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@
                   </tr>
                 </thead>
                 <tbody>
+                  <tr>
+                    <th scope="row">5.8.7</th>
+                    <td>2021-09-01</td>
+                    <td><span class="code">processes()</span> fix alpine linux</td>
+                  </tr>
                   <tr>
                     <th scope="row">5.8.6</th>
                     <td>2021-08-26</td>
diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
index 3324ab5..2e56bd5 100644
--- a/docs/index.html
+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
       <img class="logo" src="assets/logo.png">
       <div class="title">systeminformation</div>
       <div class="subtitle"><span id="typed"></span>&nbsp;</div>
-      <div class="version">New Version: <span id="version">5.8.6</span></div>
+      <div class="version">New Version: <span id="version">5.8.7</span></div>
       <button class="btn btn-light" onclick="location.href='https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation'">View on Github <i class=" fab fa-github"></i></button>
     </div>
     <div class="down">
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
         <div class="title">Downloads last month</div>
       </div>
       <div class="col-xl-4 col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-12">
-        <div class="numbers">465</div>
+        <div class="numbers">469</div>
         <div class="title">Dependents</div>
       </div>
     </div>
diff --git a/lib/processes.js b/lib/processes.js
index 0145180..7f6e03c 100644
--- a/lib/processes.js
+++ b/lib/processes.js
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ function processes(callback) {
           if (_darwin) { cmd = 'export LC_ALL=C; ps -axo pid,ppid,pcpu,pmem,pri,vsz,rss,nice,lstart,state,tty,user,command -r; unset LC_ALL'; }
           if (_sunos) { cmd = 'ps -Ao pid,ppid,pcpu,pmem,pri,vsz,rss,nice,stime,s,tty,user,comm'; }
           exec(cmd, { maxBuffer: 1024 * 20000 }, function (error, stdout) {
-            if (!error) {
+            if (!error && stdout.toString().trim()) {
               result.list = (parseProcesses(stdout.toString().split('\n'))).slice();
               result.all = result.list.length;
               result.running = result.list.filter(function (e) {