{"id":2524,"date":"2013-11-21T08:55:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T08:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2013-11-21T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T14:51:27","slug":"farewell-mageia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2013\/11\/21\/farewell-mageia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Mageia 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mga2.png\" rel=\"lightbox[2524]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2527\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2013\/11\/21\/farewell-mageia-2\/mga2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mga2.png\" data-orig-size=\"355,498\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mga2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mga2.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mga2.png\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2527\" alt=\"Mageia 2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mga2.png\" width=\"127\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s that time again. Time for us to say farewell to an old friend.<\/p>\n<p>It really doesn&#8217;t seem very long since we bid farewell to Mageia 1 but it is time for us to wave a fond goodbye to Mageia 2 as well.<\/p>\n<p>Mageia 2 was released on May 22nd 2012 and so is due to reach its end-of-life on November 22nd 2013, which is this Friday! You can see the lifecycle of Mageia releases <a title=\"Mageia support page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mageia.org\/en\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. There will be no further updates issued for Mageia 2 after this date so if you haven&#8217;t yet <a title=\"Upgrading from Mageia 2\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_3_Release_Notes#Upgrading_from_Mageia_2\" target=\"_blank\">upgraded\u00a0 to Mageia 3<\/a>, it is now time.<\/p>\n<p>Support for Mageia 3 will continue until at least November 19th 2014 and Mageia 4 is <a title=\"Mageia 4 development planning\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_4_Development\" target=\"_blank\">due to be released<\/a> just before <a title=\"FOSDEM\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">FOSDEM<\/a>, at the start of February next year.<\/p>\n<p>A huge thank you to all who contribute to make Mageia what it is today, and what it can become. People make Mageia, there are no employees, so if you reported a bug, fixed a bug, donated money, posted on the forum or mailing lists, helped with testing, documentation, translation, artwork, emails or even just mentioned Mageia to your friends, this includes you!<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to get more involved, whatever your skill level or free time, there are <a title=\"Contributing\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Contributing\" target=\"_blank\">lots of things<\/a> you can do to help and you will be most welcome. It is very rewarding to know that you helped to make Mageia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again. Time for us to say farewell to an old friend. It really doesn&#8217;t seem very long since we bid farewell to Mageia 1 but it is time for us to wave a fond goodbye to Mageia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2013\/11\/21\/farewell-mageia-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mageia-2","category-release"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p159kA-EI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}