Category Archives: release

Mageia 5 EOL postponed

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Rémi Verschelde

As the upgrade path from Mageia 5 to Mageia 6 is harder than anticipated, many users are still on Mageia 5 today. We have therefore decided to prolong the support of Mageia 5 until December 31st, 2017 (instead of October 31st, 2017 as announced … Continue reading →

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Known issues with upgrades from Mageia 5 to Mageia 6

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Since the release of Mageia 6 last week, there have been several reports about issues with upgrades from Mageia 5, particularly for users upgrading from KDE 4. While that is not surprising due to the complex nature of the upgrade … Continue reading →

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Dandifying Mageia, Part 2

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Neal Gompa

In our previous blog post on “dandifying Mageia” (nearly a year ago!), we introduced DNF in Mageia 6 to the world. Since then, we’ve been keeping pace and tracking upstream development in Cauldron. By working closely with upstream and being … Continue reading →

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Announcing Mageia 6, finally ready to shine!

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Rémi Verschelde

The whole Mageia community is extremely happy to announce the release of Mageia 6, the shiny result of our longest release cycle so far! It comes with many new and exciting features, a new range of installation media and the … Continue reading →

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Mageia 6 RC, we are nearly there

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Everyone at Mageia is exceptionally happy and proud to announce the availability of the release candidate of Mageia 6. It has been a long road, but we are at the last step and Mageia 6 is just around the corner. … Continue reading →

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