{"id":2811,"date":"2015-01-16T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2017-04-06T05:55:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T05:55:09","slug":"mageia5-beta2-is-out-a-story-of-badluck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2015\/01\/16\/mageia5-beta2-is-out-a-story-of-badluck\/","title":{"rendered":"Mageia 5 beta 2 is out! A story of badluck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2014\/12\/22\/christmas-rest-for-the-braves\/\">delays<\/a> the <strong>beta 2 version of Mageia 5<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mageia.org\/5\/\">finally out<\/a>! You can find more information <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_5_beta2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, it seems that yet again we need to postpone the Mageia 5 release.<\/p>\n<p>Due to various difficulties with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface\">EFI boot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GNU_GRUB\">grub 2<\/a> and a few other things, we need a little more time. Only a few members of our QA team have EFI-based machines, so if you do have such equipment please test Beta 2 and report your experience.<\/p>\n<p>Our QA, Packagers and ISO teams are working around the clock to bring us all a stable and secure release, but they still need to work out a few kinks.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, we are planning one more Beta release before the release candidate. So <strong>the final timeline looks like this<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beta 3 &#8211; February 3<\/li>\n<li>RC &#8211; February 24<\/li>\n<li>Final release &#8211; March 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding, and in case you were wondering if there&#8217;s anything you could do to help, just ask <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mageia.org\/en\/contribute\/\">the teams<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>We need as many people as possible to try this beta in order to identify any remaining problems. Please report any problems that you experience in the <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.mageia.org\/\">forums<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mailing_lists\">mailing lists<\/a> or, preferably, in bugzilla. Also don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_5_Errata\">check the errata<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several delays the beta 2 version of Mageia 5 is finally out! You can find more information here. But, it seems that yet again we need to postpone the Mageia 5 release. Due to various difficulties with EFI boot, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2015\/01\/16\/mageia5-beta2-is-out-a-story-of-badluck\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,155,30,136,55,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpha","category-bugsquad","category-packager","category-qa-2","category-release","category-test"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p159kA-Jl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}