Category Archives: packager

Our First Backport – HPLIP 3.15.11

Posted on December 24, 2015 by Donald Stewart

Firstly, Happy Holidays to everyone, we all hope that you have a nice festive season and that the New Years brings good fortune. But back to the business at hand… The backport repositories exist so that we can provide updates … Continue reading →

Posted in Mageia, packager, QA, Uncategorized, users | 16 Comments

Some news of what’s boiling in the Cauldron

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Donald Stewart

For those of you who are most familiar with Mageia and its development, you are starting to know the drill: Cauldron is the place where we break stuff by upgrading everything that we tried to keep stable during the previous … Continue reading →

Posted in packager, QA, users | 10 Comments

Mageia 5 beta 2 is out! A story of badluck

Posted on January 16, 2015 by grenoya

After several delays the beta 2 version of Mageia 5 is finally out! You can find more information here. But, it seems that yet again we need to postpone the Mageia 5 release. Due to various difficulties with EFI boot, … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha, bugsquad, packager, QA, release, test | 28 Comments

As Philae, Mageia 3 is running out of batteries…

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Anne Nicolas

As you all know, we can’t maintain Mageia releases forever. And it’s time to say goodbye to Mageia 3. After Wednesday the 26th of November, this release won’t benefit from any more security or bugfix updates. This will allow QA … Continue reading →

Posted in community, Mageia, packager, release, security, users | 10 Comments

The Long and Winding Road

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Rémi Verschelde

Well, it’s been a long road, longer than we anticipated, but we’re almost there! Mageia 5 Beta 1 is now validated! What exactly does that mean? What took so long (a month and a half longer than originally planned)? RPM … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha, community, Mageia, packager, QA, release, test | 14 Comments