{"id":2700,"date":"2014-08-15T16:37:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2017-04-06T05:55:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T05:55:09","slug":"no-vacation-for-the-brave-mageia-5-alpha-2-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2014\/08\/15\/no-vacation-for-the-brave-mageia-5-alpha-2-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"No vacation for the brave: Mageia 5 alpha 2 is out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #333333; text-align: justify;\">While many of us are having some well-deserved rest, the Mageia team is still on the deck and working on Mageia 5 development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-align: justify;\">This second development release is a big step towards Mageia 5, since most of the core packages have now been updated to their latest stable branches: kernel 3.15.6, X.Org 1.16 and Mesa 10.2.5\u00a0for some of\u00a0the biggest ones. There has also been some important work done towards packaging <a href=\"https:\/\/dot.kde.org\/2013\/09\/25\/frameworks-5\">KDE frameworks 5<\/a> (technological foundation for KDE Plasma 5 and KDE Applications 5) and <a href=\"http:\/\/lxqt.org\/\">LxQt<\/a> for Mageia 5: feel free to try them out, and don&#8217;t hesitate to report bugs or discuss them on our dev mailing list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-align: justify;\">Special thanks to Thomas (aka tmb) who took the time to prepare Live ISOs for this alpha even though he&#8217;s taking some time off to regain his health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-align: justify;\">You can have a look at\u00a0\u00a0for more details about alpha 2:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #333333; text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a title=\"alpha1 download page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mageia.org\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\">alpha 2 download page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_5_alpha2\">More information about alpha 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_5_Errata\">Errata<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Report bugs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/FeatureMageia5_Review\">Planned features for Mageia 5<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">Work is in progress. Stay tuned!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many of us are having some well-deserved rest, the Mageia team is still on the deck and working on Mageia 5 development. This second development release is a big step towards Mageia 5, since most of the core packages &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2014\/08\/15\/no-vacation-for-the-brave-mageia-5-alpha-2-is-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[37,124,30,136,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpha","category-mageia-2","category-packager","category-qa-2","category-release"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p159kA-Hy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}