Written by Atelier Team, with the help of Packaging Team.
Mageia 10, our new release, is ready to empower you. Download it here now, or read on for more details.
- The power of Mageia 10 is found in all you can do with it: use it as desktop or as server, use it for education, development, office work, art, music, gaming, science and much more.
- The power of Mageia 10 lies in part in the broad range of choices you have between full-blown desktop environments and window managers.
- The power of Mageia 10 rests, as well, on the best software to carry out a range of
activities from creative to leisure, personal to professional. - The power of Mageia 10 comes from its ability to use the full capabilities of new (with e.g. rocm) and older hardware and its ability to even run on very old, 32-bit hardware. You don’t need to upgrade your computer’s hardware to benefit from it.
- The power of Mageia 10 rests on its tradition of high packaging standards, based on policies, mentoring and QA testing.
- The power of Mageia 10 is assured by the monitoring of security threats and their rapid resolution.
In the end, the power of Mageia 10, the secret to its true power, flows from you, its committed community of users and contributors, from developers to artists, from those donating money to those donating time, either directly or simply through bug reports. It is you, our community, that guides the shape and evolution of Mageia to assure it meets your real needs and ways of working.
Now it is time to have a peek inside…
Mageia 10 comes with newer versions of thousands of packages, newer versions that often mean new features on top of the usual bug fixes. You can find some highlights in the Release Notes. You can also find the available packages in the Mageia Applications Database, nicely sorted by group, and toggle between viewing all applications or graphical ones only. Click on an application to get more information and a screenshot.
To give an idea of the vast number of new features and enhancements in Mageia 10, we present some from the Graphical desktop group below:
While Mageia 10 still proudly “flies” its traditional colours, you will find visual improvements here and there. For example, the new SDDM login screen on the right below gives a taste of the attention to detail in this release.
This new release carries on Mageia’s tradition of multiple installation options: the classical DVD, live images (new installation only), and netinstalls. Taking the live images as an example, here are some many enhancements Mageia 10 offers:
Updates to all the desktop environments that can be installed with Mageia (choose whichever you like, or install them all on the same computer!). Mageia offers a wide variety of popular and lightweight desktops, which you can install at any time via our software centre or via the terminal (if you’re a more advanced user). So, you can choose from Plasma KDE 6.5.5, GNOME 49.0, XFCE 4.21, LXDE, LXQT (now with a Wayland option), Enlightenment, IceWM, MATE, Fluxbox, Cinnamon, Sugar or the newer Wayland compositors like labwc, niri, sway, and hyprland. When installed alongside a DE, the window managers appear as alternative sessions in the login menu of your display manager – over 20 desktop environments and window managers available to install at the click of a button. More information can be found here.
Updates for the main office suites (LibreOffice 26.2.3.2 e.g.), web browsers (e.g., Firefox 140.11.0esr), multimedia tools, photo and video editing software, development tools (e.g., gcc 15.2.0, rust 1.95.0, python 3.13.13 or perl 5.42.0, git 2.52), server daemons (e.g., postfix 3.9.10, apache 2.4.67, docker 28.5.2, postgresql 18.4) and more all based on our LTS Linux Kernel 6.18.35.
Updates and optimisations to our Mageia tools. Feel like a real expert with our Mageia Control Centre (MCC), urpmi, graphical updates and dnf support, to manage and configure many parts of the system, as well as support for the desktop environment of your choice! You can easily view all detected hardware in a graphical interface, check drivers, configure driver settings (if you’re an advanced user), install printers and much more!
You also have access to a vast array of software thanks to our compatibility with DNF, Flatpak and AppImage. More information on the available applications can be found here on our wiki.
Not to forget the best part of Mageia: It is a community distribution, made by its users. This release would not have been possible without all our volunteers: the packagers, developers, sysadmins, QA testers, translators, artists, legal experts, the web, forums and documentation teams, and everyone else who helped bring this together. Come and participate in our global communities, forums, Matrix groups, Telegram or IRC toimprove your lovely distribution. You are part of us, take part.
If you need more information about installing Mageia or about Mageia’s Control Center (MCC), check our official documentation. You will also find instructions for upgrading from Mageia 9 in the Release Notes. There is, of course, even more documentation in our wiki. And in our Bugzilla where we track issues.
Explore the power of Mageia 10. Download it. Enjoy!
Mageia 9 will be supported until September 30, 2026.
