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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!

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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)!