Measures to protect our web services.

Posted on June 2, 2026 by papoteur

Like many services in the software world, our services are subject to disruptive automated requests that overload our servers. You may have noticed this in the form of significant loading delays or even services becoming unavailable.

We have therefore implemented a security system over the past few days that allows us to reject requests we deem inappropriate. This system specifically requires the execution of a JavaScript program, which thwarts a significant number of bots. You may see the following screen appear briefly.

The infrastructure we’ve put in place allows us to restore a very high level of service availability. It will also enable us to make adjustments easily.

However, if you notice that certain features are affected by these measures, please let us know, as this will allow us to make more precise adjustments.

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Mageia 10 RC1

Posted on May 19, 2026 by marja

You may have noticed that Mageia 10 RC1 was released a few days ago. It contains the new Mageia 10 artwork, like the wallpaper that was published here, but also really nice screensavers.

Apart from that, it contains hundreds of newer packages with security and other fixes that have been added since 10beta1. Some of them are listed below:

  • firefox-140.10.1
  • gtk+3.0-3.24.52
  • kernel-6.18.26
  • libreoffice-26.2.3.2
  • mesa-26.0.6
  • nss-3.123.1
  • postgresql18-18.3
  • rootcerts-20260412.00
  • samba-4.23.7
  • systemd-258.7
  • thunderbird-140.10.0
  • urpmi-8.136

The full lists of included packages can be found in the .idx files for the classical installation media or the .lst files for the live iso images.

However, our packagers have already released more security and other bug fixes after the 10RC1 ISOs were built. Just a few of them are mentioned below:

  • kernel-6.18.30-2.mga10
  • firefox-140.10.2-1.mga10
  • gtk4.0-4.20.4-1.mga10
  • glib2.0-2.86.5-1.mga10
  • java-*-openjdk
  • mariadb-12.2.2-2.mga10
  • mutter-49.5-1.mga10
  • python3-3.13.13-7.mga10
  • sddm-0.21.0-17.mga10
  • thunderbird-140.10.2-1.mga10

Please test one or more ISOs and report any issues in our Bugzilla. Note that we are being hammered by AI bots, please be patient if connecting to Bugzilla is difficult.

We did not find shocking problems while testings these ISOs before they were released, we really need you to test them for issues we missed. Some of the less severe issues you might encounter, are listed in the Mageia 10 Errata.

Happy testing!

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Another extraordinary General Assembly, May 7, 2026

Posted on April 30, 2026 by marja

As stated in a previous blog post, we held our General Assembly and an extraordinary General Assembly on April 22.

You can read the report of that meeting here.

Unfortunately, too few Association members were present to reach the required quorum, so we could not have a valid vote about the needed changes to our constitution. We will therefore hold another extraordinary General Assembly on Thursday, May 7, 2026. For this second call, no quorum is required.

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Introducing our Art Contest winner!

Posted on April 8, 2026 by joselp

Now that voting for the Mageia 10 art competition has closed, we are delighted to present what will be the official desktop wallpaper for our new release. Many thanks to our contributor Davide Dallara for this excellent work.

In his words, our new desktop background depicts “our beloved Mageia, born of the entire team that makes this great distro possible, alongside Tux, the Linux mascot, and the bubbling cauldron that represents the Mageia development branch”.

As mentioned in the Art Contest announcement, we will be giving our winner a special mention on the Mageia 10 “Welcome Screen”.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the rest of our contributors who have contributed their work to make Mageia 10 look so unique!

We also have some lovely screensavers that you’ll be able to see when our new version is released!

All these images and our new desktop wallpaper are now part of the exclusive Mageia 10 design, for all our users to enjoy!

Greetings, community!

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Mageia’s next General Assembly will be on April 22, 2026

Posted on March 30, 2026 by marja

Mageia’s next General Assembly will be held online on Wednesday, the 22nd of April 2026 at 17:00 UTC (19:00 CEST).

It will also be an Extraordinary General Assembly, assuming at least one third of the Association members is present or represented.

Agenda:

1. Foreword by the president
2. Financial report by the treasurer and approvals
3. Executive committee management report
4. Budget allocation vote

As part of the Extraordinary Assembly, vote for:

5. the redefinition of members in the constitution, with direct application
6. fixing a typo in the constitution
7. numbering paragraphs in the constitution
8. updating an address in the constitution

Only Association members have the right to vote.

When too few members are present or represented, then the Extraordinary General Assembly will be postponed by at least two weeks.

More information can be found in a copy of the original invitation to the Association members.

If you are a Mageia contributor you can join the meeting, too. Just send a mail to the discuss mailing list of your team and we will tell you where we meet.


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