At Mageia, we have reached a significant milestone with the release of Mageia 10 on 30 June 2026. It has been a major step towards modernising our system in many respects, and our cauldron is already beginning to simmer as we prepare our next release, Mageia 11!
Mageia 9 has been rock-solid, with 24,008 updates to date, providing security fixes for our users. This is down to the hard work of all our teams, who ensure that Mageia remains easy to use and secure.
The time has come to say goodbye to our ninth release and focus on the new challenges posed by the maintenance of Mageia 10, the development of Mageia 11, and adapting our software to the changing times so that it supports the latest additions in both hardware and third-party software packaged for our Mageia users.
We hope that all the work carried out by our contributors will result in a great open-source system that is user-friendly, modern and up-to-date for our entire community. You can find the full list of features for Mageia 10 in the release notes.
Support for previous versions extends to 3 months after the release of the latest version, so Mageia 9 will no longer be supported as of September 30. We therefore ask that, if you have not already done so, you consider upgrading to Mageia 10, as support for Mageia 9 will end with the latest validated updates.
Migration can be carried out using:
- The update application for major versions of Mageia in the system tray (currently the blue update icon).
- Using the command line as described in the notes.
It is also possible to migrate to Mageia 10 with a clean install using the classic installation images. Live images can be used to try out Mageia 10 or perform a clean install, but they are not compatible for migrating to or upgrading to the new version of Mageia.
Please note that when performing a clean install, any data not stored on a separate partition or backed up to an external device will be deleted. Please ensure you have made the necessary backups.
If you have any questions or need help with the migration, you can visit our forums, which cover most languages, or the Mageia wiki.
Hi Mageia’s people,
Thanks indeed for the great work you are doing on this exceptional distribution and for the support you provide to its users.
I wish I could move my machines to the new version Mageia 10. But I did not have time yet. I only made a quick test on a somewhat old laptop. Unforunately, I found then a problem that did not encourage me to go further with Mageia 10.
I know I should report the issue. But, again, no time to do it properly.
Very briefly, the issue relates to the use of external USB disks in the context of KDE-Plasma environment.
While in Mageia 9, I can plug such a disk and choose “Mount and Open” from the “Disk & Devices” notifyer in order to use it, this does not work anymore wiith Mageia 10 for most of my disks. The system returns an error like “You are not allowed to use this disk”, message which is absolutely misleading. I can indeed first select mount without checking and then open it.
As soon as I can I will report this issue formally, with more information (in relation to automatic file system check)
I just wanted to react to your message informing you that I dare not to move yet to Mageia 10 for this reason.
Regards,
Pascal Drabik.
Hello Pascal
I my whole time using Mageia since it’s beginning and Mandriva 2008 before that, I have never seen a problem similar to the one you are having. I really suspect something got broken during the upgrade that will be solved very easily.
I am confident that the developer´s team will help.
Hi Joselp,
I wish I could contribute to your enterprise.
As I already said somewhere Mageia is my favorite distribution.
But I I do not have enough energy these days to actively participate.
However, I keep this in mind. Maybe in some future I could join.
In any case thanks a lot to all of you.
Hi Ezequiel,
Thanks for your comment.
For the record, I am using Mageia since its “Mandrake” flavor, perhaps 20 years ago:-)
Regarding the issue I described quickly, I think I understand more or less what it is. If so, I am surprised I am the only one having it.
As soon as I have some spare time I will investigate it further and report it via Bugzilla.
It is best that you report it on bugs.mageia.org, so the development team can verify and test what you say.
In my case I can tell you that I have not had problems with external drives on any of the PCs I have. Only with one that was encrypted and the problem was solved.
Hi Joselp,
Thanks a lot for your reply.
Yes. I will report it as soon as I can (i.e. I get the time;-))
I start to think that I am talented to find software problems:-(
Maybe, if you have time you might be interested in joining the Mageia QA team!
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_Team
absolutely. the best sort of tester!
Thank you to all the Mageia Team for putting out excellent distros – very much appreciated! Looking forward to setup 10.