{"id":2913,"date":"2015-09-10T09:36:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T09:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:36:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T09:36:43","slug":"mageia-4-about-to-reach-its-end-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2015\/09\/10\/mageia-4-about-to-reach-its-end-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Mageia 4 about to reach its end-of-life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"magicdomid1106\" class=\"ace-line\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"author-a-tz76z0z70zbhmgz76z2z74zh9z88zz86z4\">As you may know, our policy is to support stable releases for 18 months; Mageia 4 was released on February 1st, 2014, so it should have been supported until August 1st, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"magicdomid1109\" class=\"ace-line\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"author-a-tz76z0z70zbhmgz76z2z74zh9z88zz86z4\">However, due to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2015\/06\/19\/solid-and-strong-and-humming-along-heres-mageia-5\/\">delayed release of Mageia 5<\/a>, we chose to extend the support period of our previous release to give you more time to upgrade your systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"magicdomid1110\" class=\"ace-line\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"author-a-tz76z0z70zbhmgz76z2z74zh9z88zz86z4\">That brought the new end-of-life (EOL) date for Mageia 4 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mageia.org\/support\/\">September 19th, 2015<\/a>, i.e. 3 months after the release of Mageia 5.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"magicdomid1111\" class=\"ace-line\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"author-a-tz76z0z70zbhmgz76z2z74zh9z88zz86z4\">As we are now very close to this date, we wanted to give you a heads-up in case you haven&#8217;t done the upgrade yet: after September 19th, Mageia 4 will not receive any new security or bugfix update, so you are encouraged to do the upgrade as soon as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"magicdomid1101\" class=\"ace-line\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"author-a-tz76z0z70zbhmgz76z2z74zh9z88zz86z4\">Most users who did the upgrade had a smooth experience, just make sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_5_Release_Notes#Upgrading_from_Mageia_4\">check the wiki<\/a> to see how to do it. Feel free to ask for help <a href=\"http:\/\/webchat.freenode.net\/?channels=mageia\">on IRC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.mageia.org\/\">the forums<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/ml.mageia.org\/l\/info\/discuss\">the mailing list<\/a> if you need further guidance to upgrade to Mageia 5.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, our policy is to support stable releases for 18 months; Mageia 4 was released on February 1st, 2014, so it should have been supported until August 1st, 2015. 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