Author Archives: Donald Stewart

It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Mageia 6.1

Posted on October 5, 2018 by Donald Stewart

This release brings all of the updates and development that has gone into Mageia 6 together into fresh installation media, giving users a kernel that supports hardware released after Mageia 6. The new installations will benefit from the countless updates … Continue reading →

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Mageia Identity Security Breach

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Donald Stewart

A user was able to gain access to our LDAP database and has published the email addresses and names, as well as apparent password hashes, of anyone who has signed up to identity.mageia.org. However, the published hashes do not match those on record, and all capitalisation … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup 2017 – week 46

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Cauldron Another busy week for Cauldron, while not as many large updates, lots of other packages have seen work, as well as getting ready for future upgrades. flatpak 0.10.0 boost 1.65.1 glib 0.7.4 chromium-browser 62 zsh 5.4.2 kmymoney4.8.1 There was … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup 2017 – week 45

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Cauldron Lots of big updates since the last roundup, here are a few of the big ones: networkmanager 1.10.0 kernel 4.13.12 libreoffice 5.4.3.2 lxqt 0.12 mesa 17.2.4 llvm 5 has also been moved out of testing, so a fair few … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup 2017 – week 43

Posted on October 29, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Before we get into the updates and Mageia news, a quick suggestion from the Free Software Foundation: Image credit – https://twitter.com/fsf/status/923644337140924418 Cauldron The big updates in Cauldron this week are to Mate 1.19.1 and Plasma 5.11.2, here are a few of … Continue reading →

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