Category Archives: Mageia

Mageia 9 beta1 is already here

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Filip Komar

We are proud to announce the first beta of Mageia 9. A lot of fixes and new updates have followed since the first alpha back in November 2022. Congratulations to all the teams that make up Mageia for the great … Continue reading →

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Mageia 9 alpha is here already

Posted on November 19, 2022 by Filip Komar

We are happy to announce the release of the test images of Mageia 9. These are available to early testers to help with the development towards a stable final release of Mageia 9. There have been large scale updates of … Continue reading →

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Time to Make Mageia 9 Beautiful – The Artwork Drop is Open

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Donald Stewart

As with every release, the artwork for Mageia 9 will come from you, the great community that supports and makes Mageia possible. The Development of Mageia 9 is progressing quickly, with many major updates and key features getting ready for … Continue reading →

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So you are not good enough to contribute?

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Marja van Waes

This blog post is especially written for those among us who could free up some time to contribute, but refrain from doing so because they think they are not good enough.The last section is for former and current packaging apprentice … Continue reading →

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PwnKit (polkit’s pkexec exploit) – CVE-2021-4034

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Filip Komar

The update fixing the issue for Mageia 8 was released Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:31 UTC (05:31 EST). For anyone still running Mageia 7 (or older releases), the recommendation is … As root run “chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec”.That will mean pkexec … Continue reading →

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