{"id":4158,"date":"2021-06-08T07:34:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T07:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2021-06-08T07:34:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T07:34:03","slug":"mageia-7-will-reach-end-of-support-on-30th-of-june-the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2021\/06\/08\/mageia-7-will-reach-end-of-support-on-30th-of-june-the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Mageia 7 will reach End of Support on 30th of June \u2013 &#8220;The king is dead, long live the king!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mageia 8 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_8_Release_Notes\" target=\"_blank\">was released Feb 26th, 2021.<\/a><br \/>Mageia 7 will receive updates up until the 30th of June, including security updates. It is then highly recommended upgrading to Mageia 8 as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As usual, before the upgrade, do a thorough backup of your data and documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have a few ways to install Mageia 8:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Do a clean installation from Classical or Live media. In this case, you will keep the data in your \/home if it is in a separate partition, as is usually the case \u2013 but do check! The root partition will be formatted during the installation process.<\/li><li>Upgrade from the command line, as described in <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_8_Release_Notes#Upgrading_from_Mageia_7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release notes<\/a>.<\/li><li>Upgrade through the applet in the system tray.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoy the ride with this newcomer in our community!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mageia 8 was released Feb 26th, 2021.Mageia 7 will receive updates up until the 30th of June, including security updates. It is then highly recommended upgrading to Mageia 8 as soon as possible. As usual, before the upgrade, do a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2021\/06\/08\/mageia-7-will-reach-end-of-support-on-30th-of-june-the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p159kA-154","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}