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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.

The Capitole du Libre also features:

• 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.