Category Archives: release

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 →

Posted in Mageia, release, users | 28 Comments

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 →

Posted in Collaboration, Mageia, packager, release, users | 8 Comments

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 →

Posted in community, Mageia, release, users | 67 Comments

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 →

Posted in community, Mageia, QA, release | 30 Comments

Weekly roundup 2017 – week 14

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Infrastructure So sadly the big news this week is the outage of two of our servers for needed upgrades. The status of the services that are down can be read here. Our sysadmins have been hard at work, already pushing … Continue reading →

Posted in Atelier, community, packager, QA, release, security, sysadmin, Weekly roundup | 8 Comments