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With the release of the first version candidate planned for the coming weeks, it’s time to finalize the artwork for Mageia 10. Before choosing the images, we’re excited to see all the submissions and the creativity of the participants. They will undoubtedly contribute to making Mageia 10 look fantastic. We thank everyone who has dedicated their time to this.

There will be two votes: one for backgrounds and one for screensavers. The main background will be chosen from the top 5, and the runners-up will be included as additional backgrounds. The screensavers will be selected from the 20 most suitable images.

The Mageia Council and the Atelier Team will choose the 5 best images for backgrounds and the 20 best for screensavers, ranking them from 1st to 5th place for backgrounds and from 1st to 20th for screensavers. Mageia’s design guidelines and colors will be taken into account for backgrounds. For screensavers, images that are well-cropped and create a good reflection are preferred.

The first-place winner for desktop background will receive a special mention on the Mageia 10 welcome screen.

The selected images for screensavers will have their author’s name watermarked in the bottom right corner.

Thanks again to everyone who participated in making Mageia shine!

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This is a slightly edited version of a post written by BAud.

Having been approved by the Council, the Mageia 10 beta1 ISOs are now available for public testing.  All together about 26GB of ISOs have landed in the ../mageia/iso/10/ branch of our mirrors.

A lot of fixes and new updates have been added since Mageia 10 alpha1 arrived back in January.

Following version freeze, here are notable changes from Mageia 9:

• kernel 6.18 (LTS)
• Plasma 6.5
• GNOME 49
• Xfce 4.20
• LibreOffice 26.2
• Firefox ESR 140.8
• Mesa 26.0.2 – enabling latest drivers for AMD, Intel and nouveau (nVidia proprietary drivers are available too)

The plan is still to have the official Mageia 10 release ready in April 2026.

Next steps include:

• Publish a beta 2 containing artwork and documentation updated for mga10
• Increase tests, especially for upgrades from mga9
• Concentrate on fixing release blocker bugs

The Mageia 10 Beta1 set includes a comprehensive collection of installation formats:

• Classical Installation ISOs for traditional installs on 32-bit (i686) and 64-bit systems
• Live Desktop Images featuring popular desktops such as Plasma, GNOME, and Xfce

The ISOs can be found here or in the ../mageia/iso/10/ directory of your favourite mirror.

Enjoy your testing _o/!

As in previous releases, the artwork for Mageia 10 will be made with input from our community that uses, collaborates and makes it possible for Mageia to move forward. Our first Alpha version has already been released, and we are collecting all your feedback to improve Mageia 10 and get it in the best shape for its final release. Now it’s time to prepare the artwork!

We are looking for your contributions and ideas for images, logos, icons, any graphic art proposition on how Mageia 10 could look like in its full splendor, it’s time to step up and show us what you can offer to your reference distro.

We select a piece of digital abstract art composed of the colors of the Mageia Logo for the main background. As it should easily adjust to different aspect ratios without losing image quality, it should have a minimum resolution of 4096 by 2160 px, to fit a wide variety of monitors. As the quality and size of monitors increases over the years, we should have a main wallpaper that can cover 4K resolutions without loss of quality.

Rules

The contest will start on January 30, 2026 and continue until February 25, Mageia will provide 1 main background, 10 additional backgrounds and all the little parts to make it look great. Participating is easy if you want to:

Submit your work to the Art Repository for Mageia 10, you can also send a link to the Atelier mailing list. The council and Atelier team will choose 10 backgrounds from different contributors, to be included in the “additional backgrounds”

Prerequisites

• Minimum size 4096 by 2160 px for images, for icons the preferred format is SVG.
• No borders.
• No text: the Mageia logo can be placed as a sample but must be removable.
• Scalable or croppable to all possible aspect ratios: 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, etc.
• License: CC by SA 3.0 or later.

You can also visit our Wiki page for more information about the details you will have to take care of or to see backgrounds from previous versions of Mageia. Some Mageia 9 screensavers and backgrounds have been uploaded to the repository for reference.

Photos will be considered for additional screensavers and backgrounds as long as they do not contain recognizable people. Therefore avoid copyrighted artwork, or if you own the copyright you must assign it under the CC By SA 3.0 license.

All artwork must be original and with source files (SVG, xcf, etc) available and following the artwork standards for Mageia. Please upload a png file or similar as they make them easier to view. We hope these guidelines will help you to make something that makes Mageia look great.

These guides cover the logo, color scheme, website design, fonts, backgrounds and other elements of Mageia. The official Mageia logo is also covered by our Logo and Trademark Policy.

Check out the rules, and start creating with us!

Final choice

Winners will be chosen by the Mageia Council and Atelier Team and announced on the Mageia blog.

We’re delighted to announce that the Mageia Council has officially validated the publication of the first Alpha ISO for Mageia 10! This marks a major milestone in the Mageia 10 release cycle and opens the door for broad community testing and early feedback.

Mageia 10 continues to be built in Cauldron — our beloved development branch — where all upcoming release work happens. With the Council’s validation, the infrastructure team is now ready to publish the Alpha ISO images for download and testing.

What This Means

Alpha ISOs are the first public snapshots of the upcoming release. They are not ready for production use, but they are perfect for developers, testers, and curious users who want to explore what’s cooking in Mageia 10 and help improve it by reporting bugs, testing installs, and confirming hardware compatibility.

These ISOs represent the initial build of Mageia 10 as the distribution begins its formal release countdown, ahead of Beta and Release Candidate milestones, and a final release currently targeted for April 2026.

The Mageia 10 Alpha set includes a comprehensive collection of installation formats:

• Classical Installation ISOs for traditional installs on 32-bit (i686) and 64-bit systems
• Live Desktop Images featuring popular desktops such as Plasma, GNOME, and Xfce

How You Can Dive In

To get involved and test Mageia 10 Alpha:

• Download the Alpha ISOs (look for Mageia-10-alpha1 images).
• Write the ISO image to a USB drive using IsoDumper on Mageia (Rufus on Windows), or boot in a virtual machine and explore the installer and live environments.
• Report bugs you encounter with as much detail as possible.
• Help with translations or documentation updates, such as our Release Notes — early contributions make a big difference.

Mageia’s release model relies on active community involvement. During the Alpha phase, testers help uncover issues early, before they reach later stages of the release cycle. Bug reports contribute directly to improved stability and overall quality, while translation updates, documentation improvements, and installer refinements can be addressed at an early and impactful stage.

Every piece of feedback — from “it boots!” to detailed log entries — helps ensure Mageia 10 meets our quality standards.

Thank You to the Community

A huge thanks goes out to everyone who contributes to Mageia — from developers and packagers to testers, translators, and documentation writers. This release is the result of the tireless work of our contributors.

Mageia remains a 100% community-driven project, and it is the passion of our volunteers that makes milestones like this possible.

Stay tuned to the Mageia Blog and release channels for future updates as Mageia 10 continues its journey toward a stable release.

Let’s make Mageia 10 the best one yet!

EDIT: Download link refreshed.

The Mageia team wishes the the whole community a happy 2026 filled with peace, happiness and joy!

Mageia has new things in store for a new year: a new stable release and new servers. The team is currently track with the release schedule for Mageia 10 announced earlier. The alpha release is still in testing and we hope to release it to users soon. As the prior post indicated, there have been a number of challenges for this release, but most are being resolved. We look forward not only to the alpha release, but to an update after the next developers’ meeting.

The latest stable kernel, 6.18.x, runs beautifully, an observation from personal experience, both in Cauldron and backported to the stable Mageia 9 machine on which I am writing this.

As has been discussed in prior posts, Mageia also has new servers that will help with development. There has been work on configuring them and the team is currently working with the data centre to tune the network connections.

Upcoming this year is a general assembly meeting to assess the past year and chart the path forward for 2026 and beyond. The council will also have to evaluate the increasing shift to Wayland – a topic that has seen some discussion among the developers — and other changes in the Linux ecosystem as we move forward.

Stay tuned for more – and may we all have a truly marvellous new year!

On December 1st, the Mageia development team met to discuss the progress of Mageia 10, establishing an initial release roadmap and addressing the status of key software stacks.

A tentative schedule was agreed upon, aiming to start the release cycle as soon as possible with a first alpha version to be released “yesterday” (here I’m kidding on the square), a first beta due in the first half of January 2026 followed by a second beta a month later. The release candidate is scheduled two weeks after the second beta while the final release is expected in April 2026.

This sequence aims to prevent the software stacks in Mageia 10 from becoming obsolete before its stable release and at the same time to ensure users that everything works perfectly as per our standards.

The team also reviewed the status of various software stacks to be included in the next version:

• PHP: versions 8.5 (in Cauldron) and 8.4 (likely in parallel) will be included to support a wider range of websites.
• Python: no immediate move to Python 3.14 is planned.
• Ruby: no planned update to Ruby 4.0.0, as it does not contain major changes.
• Java: Java 21 will be kept as the LTS (Long-Term Support) version to ensure 32-bit support, but Java 25 (the latest version) will be available as java-latest for 64-bit architectures.
• GCC and LLVM: GCC is currently at 15.2.0, and LLVM at 20.1.8; the decision was to stay with these for the release.
• Go/Golang: It was agreed to move to version 1.25.x, with a focus on fixing dependent packages that need updating (around 820 packages).
• Kernel: The current kernel is 6.12.XX (LTS). There is an ongoing discussion about adopting Kernel 6.18.XX (the next LTS) for better support of the latest hardware, especially for gaming.

For the desktop environments, LXDE and LXQt are already up to date but there is still an open discussion about KDE and GNOME. LibreOffice is at 25.8.3, with 26.2 planned for the end of January 2026.

You can find a more detailed list of stacks/apps/software versions proposed here.

Now the critical points.

At the time of the team meeting, creation of 32-bit ISOs was blocked due to a segfault in perl-URPM, which has since been overcome.

The problem of manually updating GPG keys and crypto-policies for migration from Mageia 9 to Mageia 10 was raised. The team is looking for a solution to be implemented in Mageia 9 prior to the release.

Mozilla and other vendors are abandoning the 32-bit architecture, making it increasingly difficult to maintain full support.

There is uncertainty about the status of Chromium as it’s currently unmaintained.

The work on integrating two new rented ARM build nodes is well underway, with progress made on using Docker containers for builds, although minor modifications to the ulri and iurt tools are required.

The meeting highlighted a constructive and progress-oriented climate. Mageia 10 appears ready to enter the Alpha phase, with awareness of the problems still to be solved – especially regarding i686 – the kernel and the tuning of the various software stacks.

The community is active and collaborative, and the consolidation work done so far lays a solid foundation for a stable release in the coming months.

Further updates on the work will follow but we still recommend keeping Release Notes and Errata pages monitored.

We’re still welcoming your contribution to test our distribution (or even more contribute to it)!

As you can see, our blogs are still up and running.

However, the servers hosting most of the rest of our infrastructure, like the forums, wiki and bugzilla, are not.

I assume we are under attack from bots again, but that needs to be confirmed by one of our sysadmins.

Anyway, the issue is known, we will try to update this message as soon as we know more.

1st update : a switch in the datacenter is broken, it should be replaced. A new one is on its way to Marseille. (2025-09-18, at 9:45 CEST)

2nd update: The outage is still ongoing, but we have set up a replica of the mirror list so that updates and new installations are no longer blocked (2025-09-24, at 8:00 CEST).

3rd update: After the mirrorlist replication, www.mageia.org was redirected to blog.mageia.org. (2025-09-24, 08.49 CEST)

4th update: Unfortunately, it appears that users using DNF instead of URPMI (the legacy tool in Mageia for updates) still cannot use the mirrorlist. The reason is, that DNF uses a different mirrorlist, created for downloading ISOs. That mirrorlist has not been replicated. As a workaround you can, in a terminal/konsole as root:

cp -a /etc/yum.repos.d/ /etc/yum.repos.d_original/
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
sed -i 's/^mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/' *
sed -i 's/#baseurl/baseurl/' *

Doing that will set https://mirrors.kernel.org as your fixed mirror, so that you can install packages again. (2025-09-24 15:57 CEST) (Edit: add the forgotten -i switch to sed, 16:20 CEST)

5th update: We were notified that the issue at the datacenter will be fixed ultimately tomorrow (2025-09-25 11:50 CEST) (Edit: put the code above in a code block instead of in a list, 13:31CEST)

6th update: We received no update from the datacenter, but we are sure there is a good reason for that. Note that they have always hosted us for free (2025-09-27 10:50 CEST).

7th update: There was certainly a good reason, they had not yet received the switch. They now expect to receive it today (2025-09-30 12:53 CEST).

8th update: According to the datacenter people, the ordered switch is now expected to arrive at the datacenter tomorrow. It will be then installed and we hope to recover the servers back to normal Monday or Tuesday at the latest (2025-10-02 16:00 CEST).

9th update: the router has been delivered in the DC and the old one replaced, last week someone went in the DC to cable stuff, but there seems to be an issue with fibers now, so our servers are still not reachable. We have not yet information on when the next operation is scheduled in
order to fix that remaining issue (2025-10-07 9:00 CEST).

10th update: The servers are back! (2025-10-07 15:00 CEST)

Originally posted in our French blog by Guillaume Royer.

The Capitole du Libre is one of the biggest events in France’s free software community. It will take place on November 15 and 16. Registration is required, but admission is free. Many representatives of the free software community will be in attendance.

• Conferences…
• Workshops
• Round table discussions
• Lan Parties (network gaming)

There will also be food trucks for foodies and an association village.

Our friend Dtux has reserved a spot for Mageia to be represented at this major event. If you are a Mageia user or just curious, feel free to come and visit our booth.

For those who are more motivated, if you feel like it, you can come and lend a hand with:

• Carrying, setting up and removing equipment
• Relieving the volunteers at our booth

We hope to meet you there to discuss Mageia and free software!!

Translated with DeepL.com (free version), proofread and enhanced by Atelier Team.

By Aguador.

The end is coming, the end is coming…the end of Windows 10 support, that is…and as part of the Linux community we can help those affected.

As of 14 October support for Windows 10 will end, leaving its users of older, less powerful machines three choices:

• Suffer slower performance (IF their machine does at least meet the minimum requirements for Win 11)
• Pay for support to continue with Win 10
• Buy new, more powerful equipment

As Linux users we know that these are not the only choices, Linux offers a range of options to suit virtually any personal taste and computer. KDE, source of one of Mageia’s flagship¹ desktops, has an attractive multimedia website² for the about-to-be orphaned Windows users.

It lays out the case for switching to Linux, with Plasma and the KDE universe of software as the alternative. The site presents the modern features of KDE-Plasma, the advantages of Free and Open Source Software, and compatibility with files produced by proprietary software. It is a great resource which Mageia community members can offer friends and colleagues facing “the end”. And, of course, as mageians, we can provide that link along with an offer to help them in getting set up with Mageia.

You do not use Plasma or do not think it is right for your friends or friends’ machines? The site also offers links to other popular desktops and, at the end, a link to the more general Endof10 website, which is also hosted by KDE. It not only offers the arguments for switching to Linux, but provides guidance in choosing a system and, most importantly, places around the world where people can find hands-on help in making the switch.

As Mageia users we know it offers all the beauty and power of Plasma and the KDE suite of programs. So do your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours a favour by not only sharing these sites (and, of course, Mageia’s), but also showing Plasma and/or other desktops in action on your machine. Oh, and if you want to write a Live ISO to a USB stick, you can even show them the Mageia we use every day in action on THEIR machines.

To us mageians it is obvious, that Mageia 9 > Win10 is not a typo!

1. Surprise: we treat all of our desktops as flagships! ︎
2. Note that the KDE videos require having DRM enabled ︎

Written by katnatek.

This is an unusual post… As we warned in the past updates MGASA-2025-0195¹, MGASA-2025-0197² and MGASA-2025-0201³, the updates for Firefox and Thunderbird could not be delivered for armv7hl for a long time.

The issue had two causes. The first one, noticed during the QA process for the linked Security Advisories, was produced by a bug in the tools used to build Firefox for this architecture⁴.

The second one was harder to squash, and we were on the verge of informing you that we could not continue updating these software products in Mageia 9 for the armv7hl architecture.

But then, Pascal Terjan (one of our packagers), found a patch in the Debian community for exactly the same issue (a Rust component was using the fat link time optimization)

Firefox is now updated in all architectures, in both Mageia 9 and Cauldron, to the 128.12.0 ESR version – an upgrade from 115.13.0 on armv7hl – and Thunderbird will follow once version 128.12 is ready.

1. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0195.html ︎
2. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0197.html ︎
3. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0201.html ︎
4. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34422 ︎