The release of rc1 brings Mageia 9 stable even more closer to reality

Posted on July 23, 2023 by neoclust

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of Mageia 9. Since the release of beta 2 in May 2023 the Mageia team has worked to solve a number of stubborn issues and provide security fixes and new updates.

Thanks to all the teams that make up Mageia for the great work done in these months, to fix, test and validate all these new features and add the new wallpaper. The following features stand out:

  • Kernel – 6.4.3
  • glib – 2.36
  • gcc – 12.3.0
  • rpm – 4.18.0
  • Chromium – 114.0.5735.198
  • Firefox ESR – 102.13
  • LibreOffice – 7.5.4.2
  • Plasma – 5.27.5
  • GNOME – 44.2
  • Xfce – 4.18.4
  • LXQt – 1.3.0
  • mesa – 23.1.3

A full list of included packages is available in the .idx file for the installation media. There is currently a hard version freeze in effect pending the outcome of user testing of the release, including the upgrade mechanism.

For those that want to jump in and test straight away, the images can be downloaded here. As always with pre-release images, use your best judgement, but all testing and comments are welcome. You can read first the Release notes and the Errata.

We continue to offer (as few do) installation media for 32-bit and 64-bit systems, 64-bit live images for Plasma, GNOME and Xfce, as well as a 32-bit live image for Xfce.

Join us in Mageia!
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The release of beta2 brings Mageia 9 stable closer to reality

Posted on May 24, 2023 by papoteur

We are proud to announce the second beta of Mageia 9. Since the release of beta 1 in February 2023 the Mageia team has worked to solve a number of stubborn issues and provide security fixes and new updates.

Thanks to all the teams that make up Mageia for the great work done in these months, to fix, test and validate all these new features and add the new wallpaper. The following features stand out:

  • Kernel – 6.3.3
  • glib – 2.36
  • gcc – 12.3.0
  • rpm – 4.18.0
  • Chromium – 110
  • Firefox ESR – 102.11
  • LibreOffice – 7.5.2
  • Plasma – 5.27.4
  • GNOME – 44
  • Xfce – 4.18.1
  • LXQt – 1.3.0
  • mesa – 23.1.0

A full list of included packages is available in the .idx file for the installation media. There is currently a hard version freeze in effect pending the outcome of user testing of the release, including the upgrade mechanism.

For those that want to jump in and test straight away, the images can be downloaded here. As always with pre-release images, use your best judgement, but all testing and comments are welcome.

We continue to offer (as few do) installation media for 32-bit and 64-bit systems, 64-bit live images for Plasma, GNOME and Xfce, as well as a 32-bit live image for Xfce.

Join us in Mageia!

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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 work done in these months, to fix, test and validate all these new features, of which the following stand out:

Kernel – 6.1.11

glib – 2.36

gcc – 12.2.1

rpm – 4.18.0

Chromium – 110

Firefox ESR – 102.8

LibreOffice – 7.5.0

Plasma – 5.26.90

GNOME – 43

Xfce – 4.18

LXQt – 1.2.1

mesa – 23.0

A full list of included packages is available in the .idx file for the installation media. Do note that despite current version freeze there will be still updates to the beta 1 released packages. Mostly bugs and security fixes.

For those that want to jump in and test straight away, the images can be downloaded here. As always with pre-release images, use your best judgement.

We continue to offer (as few do) installation media for 32-bit and 64-bit systems, 64-bit live images for Plasma, GNOME and Xfce, as well as a 32-bit live image for Xfce.

If you missed it in the first Alpha, Mageia now has a new tool for removing old kernels, which will be configured by default and can be found in the “Tools” section of the applications menu.

Join us in Mageia!

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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 all packages as well as new features implemented to improve what Mageia already offered.

Some of the key updates include:    

  • Kernel – 6.0.5
  • glib – 2.36
  • gcc – 12.2.1
  • rpm – 4.18.0
  • Chromium – 106
  • Firefox ESR – 102.5
  • LibreOffice – 7.4.2
  • Plasma – 5.25.9
  • GNOME 43.1
  • Xfce 4.17
  • LXQt 1.2.0

 A full list of included packages is available in the .idx file for the installation media.

For those that want to jump in and test straight away, the images can be downloaded here. As always with pre-release images, use your best judgement.

The available ISO images are the same as in Mageia 8, offering installation media for both 32 and 64bit systems, 64bit live images for Plasma, GNOME and Xfce, as well as a 32bit live image for Xfce.

The Control Centre now adds a new feature that will allow the removal of old kernels. This feature will be automated by default in Mageia 9, but will also allow the user to configure and run it manually. There are also improvements in boot times with the Plasma update to 5.25 and Systemd.

And as always there are many package updates. So please update during or at least soon after install.

Of course you’re very welcome to join us.

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Current Roundup and News – Week 35

Posted on September 7, 2022 by neoclust

Neoclust wrote this blog post last Sunday, but we (Atelier Team) needed three days to enhance it a little and publish it, sorry about that to Neoclust and all our readers. If you want to join Atelier Team to help publish our blog posts faster and more often, you’re very welcome!

It is time to start having good habits again and tell what we do in Mageia.

It has been a busy week, as usual! Hundreds of packages were pushed to Cauldron (499 Source RPMs, so even many more packages). Security and bugfix updates for Mageia 8 landed on our mirrors, too.

Security updates in Mageia 8:

  • webkit2
  • ytnef
  • thunderbird
  • mariadb
  • postgresql11, postgresql13
  • clamav
  • net-snmp
  • python-ldap
  • firefox
  • and a lot more

Bugfix updates in Mageia 8:

  • apache
  • boinc-client
  • kernel
  • libreoffice
  • dkms-bbswitch
  • and a lot more

Summary of updates in Mageia 8

Since mageia 8 got out, we released 757 security packages and 323 bugfix packages.

Mageia 9 is boiling

Actually (as you may have understood when you read about the hundreds of packages that are made for Cauldron) a big work is done to update packages in the upcoming mageia 9.

Three highlights: We updated Gnome to its version 42, plasma to version 5.25.4. The kernel has been updated to the latest stable release: 5.19.6.

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