Let’s say goodbye to Mageia 3

It’s been a great run, but all good things must end. Or at least, upgrade to a greater thing.

Since Mageia 3 was released in May 2013 our packaging and security teams have provided hundreds of updates (actually 1136 source packages in the Core repository, that accounts for almost 9000 binary packages), all of them tested and validated by our QA team.

As we announced in our earlier blog post, Mageia 3 has now reached the end of its product life. This means that we will not be providing any more security or bugfix updates for Mageia 3.

In order to keep your systems secure and functioning properly, you should upgrade any Mageia 3 systems that you still have to Mageia 4 as soon as possible.

And just in case you need another incentive to upgrade, Mageia 5 is coming soon (the final release should be at the end of January 2015). Mageia 5 will be our best release yet, and we only support upgrading to it from Mageia 4, so upgrading now will mean you will be ready to go when Mageia 5 comes around.

So head on over to this wiki page and upgrade your system today.

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11 Responses to Let’s say goodbye to Mageia 3

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  3. JanKusanagi says:

    Goodbye Mageia 3! You were great!!

    o/

  4. Professional Updatter says:

    No direct update from 3 to 5 ? Now that is severe lack of judgement … with all due respect.

    • Rémi Verschelde says:

      “Lack of resources” would be more accurate.

      But as a professional updater, feel free to join our QA team to help us maintain our stable versions while preparing the next one. We can always use more hands 🙂

  5. zarqos says:

    Mageia 3 was great and i staied on it even when the 4 version come out.
    thank you Mageia team .

  6. Nick P. says:

    Old Compaq Presario R3000. Celeron……ATI Mobility Radeon 9000IGP graphics.

    Oh dear. Sorry its gone.
    I downloaded Mag 4 update. That wrecked it!
    Reinstalled Mag 3.
    Dowloaded Mag 4 and burnt to DVD on windows machine.
    Ignored by Compaq.
    Purchased Mag 4 DVD
    Ignored by Compaq.
    Downloaded Mag 4 update again.
    Worked for a while but after changing wallpaper the admin password was rejected. (Go figure?)
    Tried to go back to original wallpaper. Not available.
    Tried home burnt DVD again.
    Good heavens! it loaded.
    Did big update and installed printer no problem.
    Go to use Office Libre.
    Not there. Perhaps its not part of Mag 4.
    Go to tools control centre.
    Type admin password.
    Rejected.
    Try Ubuntu 14 disk.
    Loaded, set up password and admin password.
    Continue.
    Wallpaper only. No icons or text. Just wallpaper.
    Repeat exercise.
    Same result.

    Right. So I can’t move to Mag 5 because I need Mag 4 to be working and Ubuntu appears to be a no no. I used pepermint Linux for a while (Liked it) but that suddenly crashed and burned.

    I’m back on Mag 3 but ad warned of dreadful security risks.

    Seems time for a new computer don’t you think?
    Now, let me see.

    Mac or windows do you think.

    Grrrrrr.

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  8. Tyler Bouchard says:

    Honestly I’m perplexed by some of the comments on your EOL journal here. Very few distros, even those with a lot of clout (Fedora, Ubuntu) “support” upgrading skipping versions (Doable, but the risks likely high), so really this is completely acceptable.

    I do have a relevant question, however. How does upgrading between versions work? Do we straight upgrade or are new changes (such as changing a desktop manager like LDM to MDM) applied? Or would we need a fresh install for such changes? The wiki, last I checked, wasn’t too clear on this.

    All this being said, as well, I noticed you did state you needed help in an earlier comment. I don’t have too much time on my hands, but I can assist with odds and ends if really needed, and I have some QA Experience through FujiMedical. Although I will admit very little to no experience assisting anything linux-dev-related. This is one of the few distros I can use and nothing “Explodes violently” in my face for a very prolonged period of time, which makes me incredibly happy. Barring some issues with urpme –auto-orphans with live cd installed origins of course. (Long since switched to the traditional installer which cures all wounds)

    • Rémi Verschelde says:

      Hi Tyler,

      Upgrades are basically a mass update of all installed mgaN packages to their corresponding versions in mgaN+1. So the user-installed applications get updated alongside the core packages, and everything is handled by urpmi as it would handle regular updates.

      That means for example that if you are using a given desktop manager, you will still have the same updated one once your system is upgraded, even if it was changed as the default DM for your desktop environment. On the other hand if the desktop manager you were using has been deprecated, it will be replaced during the upgrade by the new DM that was tagged as “obsoleting” the former one. (I’m not 100% sure of my example, but I think that’s about how it would work).

      Another aspect is that if some packages are dropped in mgaN+1 but not obsoleted by another package (or by the dummy “task-obsolete” package which purpose is to forcefully remove obsolete packages), you will keep your mgaN package installed, the upgrade won’t remove it. So most likely you’ll be able to continue using it, even if Mageia decided to stop supporting it for mgaN+1.

      As to helping the QA team, we’re always looking for contributors. The QA job at Mageia is really interesting and lets you earn a comprehensive knowledge of the distro and its packaged software; but at the same time the learning curve is not too steep, there are things to do for everyone, from the least experienced to the power users.

      Please have a look at the QA portal on the wiki: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_Team_portal
      And maybe drop by #mageia-qa on IRC (Freenode server) to discuss this live, there are always people around 🙂

  9. Rémi Verschelde says:

    Hi Tyler,

    Upgrades are basically a mass update of all installed mgaN packages to their corresponding versions in mgaN+1. So the user-installed applications get updated alongside the core packages, and everything is handled by urpmi as it would handle regular updates.

    That means for example that if you are using a given desktop manager, you will still have the same updated one once your system is upgraded, even if it was changed as the default DM for your desktop environment. On the other hand if the desktop manager you were using has been deprecated, it will be replaced during the upgrade by the new DM that was tagged as “obsoleting” the former one. (I’m not 100% sure of my example, but I think that’s about how it would work).

    Another aspect is that if some packages are dropped in mgaN+1 but not obsoleted by another package (or by the dummy “task-obsolete” package which purpose is to forcefully remove obsolete packages), you will keep your mgaN package installed, the upgrade won’t remove it. So most likely you’ll be able to continue using it, even if Mageia decided to stop supporting it for mgaN+1.

    As to helping the QA team, we’re always looking for contributors. The QA job at Mageia is really interesting and lets you earn a comprehensive knowledge of the distro and its packaged software; but at the same time the learning curve is not too steep, there are things to do for everyone, from the least experienced to the power users.

    Please have a look at the QA portal on the wiki: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_Team_portal
    And maybe drop by #mageia-qa on IRC (Freenode server) to discuss this live, there are always people around 🙂