We are proud to announce the first beta of Mageia 9. A lot of fixes and new updates have followed since the first alpha back in November 2022.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2023/02/28/mageia-9-beta1-is-already-here/

Everyone at Mageia is very excited to announce the release of Mageia 8.
Mageia 8 comes with new exciting features, major updates to your favourite programmes as well as support for recent hardware.

Read the full thing here: https://blog.mageia.org/en/2021/02/26/made-it-to-a-byte-announcing-the-release-of-mageia-8/

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback so that we can continue working to get Mageia 8 ready for release.

Mageia 8's new artwork has also been integrated, the community has made some really nice images, here is the new signature background, as well as the additional backgrounds that will be included.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2021/02/06/announcing-mageia-8-rc1/

The road to get Mageia 8 is winding, slow but steady.

The current situation is that major packages have been updated to latest versions, such as:

- latest Linux kernel 5.9.6 built for x86_64, i586, arm7l and aarch64 architectures,which can recognize all new released hardware since Mageia 7.1. We intend to release Mageia 8 with a Long Term Support Kernel. 5.10 will be the new LTS one, just around the corner for a December release. We will ship with this version.


Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2020/11/13/mageia-8-is-on-its-way/

We are happy to announce the release of Mageia 8 Beta 1. After the good feedback from Alpha 1, there have been some improvements and fixes for this release, we look forward to hearing your feedback and thoughts so that we can continue to get Mageia 8 ready for release.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2020/08/07/more-progress-for-mageia-8-beta-1-is-available-for-testing/

Magiea sets QT_PLUGIN_PATH by default. Usually as 'QT_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins:/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kcms:'

If you are using an AppImage with QT, you need to unset this, or set it to the location of the AppImage.

One example is Chiaki - the Client for PlayStation 4 Remote Play for Linux (and other OS's) - https://github.com/thestr4ng3r/chiaki

So if you download Chiaki to /home/{youruser}/Downloads, in order to run it you need to do:

export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=/home/{youruser}/Downloads/Chiaki-v1.2.1-Linux-x86_64.AppImage

Then run:

/home/{youruser}/Downloads/Chiaki-v1.2.1-Linux-x86_64.AppImage

Everyone at Mageia is very happy to announce the release of Mageia 7. We all hope that the release works as well for you as it has during our testing and development.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2019/07/01/magical-lucky-release-number-7-has-arrived/

Everyone at Mageia is very happy to get the first step towards Mageia 7 released! Mageia 7 beta 1 comes with lots of exciting changes and updates, and while a beta with lots of development work, it has been a nice release for a beta, not needing too many rounds of building to get workable images.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2018/12/07/announcing-mageia-7-beta-1/

Just as a reminder, Mageia is an off-spring from the famous Mandriva family that survived when the Mandriva tree crashed.

Read the full thing at http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2017/08/mageia-6-is-it-rise-of-phoenix.html

The whole Mageia community is extremely happy to announce the release of Mageia 6, the shiny result of our longest release cycle so far! It comes with many new and exciting features, a new range of installation media and the usability and stability that can be expected from any Mageia release. See the Release Notes for extensive details.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/07/16/announcing-mageia-6/

After more than one year of development, the Mageia community is very proud to finally deliver this long-awaited release, Megia 5. This release announcement is a big sigh of relief, and "At last!" tha comes straight from the heart of the weary - tired as one can be after long days of hard but rewarding work.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2015/06/19/solid-and-strong-and-humming-along-heres-mageia-5/

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.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2015/01/16/mageia5-beta2-is-out-a-story-of-badluck/

While most of the world is turned towards Brazil to enjoy the World Cup, Mageia has been preparing its own major worldwide event: Mageia 4.1 has been released!

If you were not expecting it, you might wonder what this unnanounced 4.1 version is. It is a maintenance release for Mageia 4 which contains all security and bugfix updates that were issued since the release in February 2014.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/06/20/pulling-mageia-4-1-out-of-the-hat/

Right on time, and just in time for the first day of FOSDEM 2014, we have the great pleasure of announcing Mageia 4. We’re still having a grand time doing this together, and we hope you enjoy this release as much as we’ve enjoyed making it. And if you’re at FOSDEM, come and help us celebrate!


Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/02/01/new-year-new-resolutions-and-a-new-mageia-heres-mageia-4/

Finally Mageia 4 RC release is out! After many nights working on remaining nasty bugs, the isos are now available in your favourite public mirrors.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/01/19/we-won-the-battle-against-bugs-and-the-war-almost/

Despite the care we take to test isos for new versions of Mageia, we missed a potentially huge bug… It concerned the isos using the classical installer. If the user chose to add online media at the beginning of the installation, it would result in the system being updated to Cauldron, the development version of Mageia. This was due to the initial isos including a partial misidentification, referring to the development version (and not the Official one). The update media added pointed to Mageia Cauldron and not to the Mageia 3 repositories. Please note that users who chose to add online media only at the end of the installation would not be affected by this problem.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2013/06/09/new-isos-available-for-mageia-3-classical-installer/

To be honest, I have used quite a few KDE distros in last couple of years but never saw a resource efficient distro like Mageia 2. Under similar conditions, Mageia performed better than almost all the KDE distros I have used. Plus, with Mandriva Linux going commercial and PCLinuxOS becoming independent of Mandriva, Mageia and ROSA are perhaps the limited ways to know what's brewing in the Mandriva camp. Incidentally both the Mandriva derivatives present really beautiful KDE distros!

Read the full thing at http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.ch/2013/05/mageia-3-kde-review-simple-refined.html

Before we get to the rest of the information: we dedicate this release to the memory of Eugeni Dodonov, our friend, our colleague and a great inspiration to those he left behind. We miss his brilliance, his courtesy and his dedication.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2013/05/19/all-grown-up-and-ready-to-go-dancing-mageia-3s-out/

After the jump from Mageia to Mageia 2 last year, we’re looking forward to seeing how the team can make the distro even better when Mageia 3 comes out. We’ve had some great previews over the last few months, however with the May release date looming larger, the Release Candidate is now available, giving us a better taste of whats to come.

Read the full thing at http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/mageia-3-rc-out-now

We are reaching the final run for Mageia 3 release: beta 2 isos are available for tests. This was a real release full of server failures and bugs . Still, the QA team did a fantastic work as usual.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2013/01/25/time-for-tests-mageia-3-beta-2-is-out/