Category Archives: release

Made it to a byte – announcing the release of Mageia 8

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Donald Stewart

Everyone at Mageia is very excited to announce the release of Mageia 8. Mageia 8 comes with new exciting features, major updates to your favourite programmes as well as support for recent hardware. The release is available to download directly, or … Continue reading →

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Announcing Mageia 8 RC1

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Donald Stewart

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback so that we can continue workingto get Mageia 8 ready for release. Mageia 8’s new artwork has also been integrated, the community has made some really nice images, here is the new signature background, as … Continue reading →

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News from our package manager “urpmi”

Posted on August 28, 2020 by neoclust

News from our package manager “urpmi” :Inherited from the Mandriva distribution, Mageia’s default package manager is URPMI. It offers a wide range of features to manage software repositories, install, update and remove applications packaged in rpm format. This standardized format … Continue reading →

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More Progress for Mageia 8 – Beta 1 is available for testing

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Donald Stewart

We are happy to announce the release of Mageia 8 Beta 1. After the good feedback from Alpha 1, there have been some improvements and fixes for this release, we look forward to hearing your feedback and thoughts so that … Continue reading →

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The first step towards Mageia 8 – Alpha 1 is available for testing

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Donald Stewart

We are happy to announce the release of the test images of Mageia 8. These are available to early testers to help with the development towards a stable final release of Mageia 8. There have been large scale updates of all packages as well as … Continue reading →

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