Mageia 3 RC

Anne Nicolas has announced that the only release candidate and the final development build for Mageia 3 is now ready for testing: "We are now two weeks from the end of the trip (at least we hope we will have no delay). Mageia 3 release candidate is now available for the very final tests. We need your feedback more than ever. The Mageia team is working hard to fix the last annoying bugs - what we call release-critical bugs. How do we qualify a release-critical one? All the bugs that cannot be fixed through updates, mainly in the installer, the kernel and some of the main drivers. As with the beta 4, live ISO images are still in progress and should be released in the coming days." Mageia 3 RC ships with the latest Linux kernel, version 3.8.8, and includes RPM 4.11, systemd 195, KDE 4.10.2, GNOME 3.6.3 and LibreOffice 4.0.2. See the brief release announcement and the detailed release notes for more information. Download the installation DVD image from here: Mageia-3-RC-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,865MB, MD5). The final release of Mageia 3 is scheduled for 3 May 2013.

Mageia 3 Beta 4

Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the fourth and last beta release of Mageia 3: "After all the delays in our Mageia 3 planning, we're very pleased to be able to announce the beta 4 release. Packagers and the QA team have worked hard to fix as many bugs as possible. We are now one month from the Mageia 3 final release, so your tests -- and reports! -- are more important than ever. This beta release comes with nearly all the designs for Mageia 3 integrated -- many thanks to Leo who made the background image for Mageia 2 and then worked again on the Mageia 3 design. Initially we're releasing the i586 and x86_64 DVDs and dual CD using the classical installer; work is still in progress on the live ISOs." Read the release announcement and release notes for more details. Download: Mageia-3-beta4-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,857MB, MD5, torrent).

Mageia 3 Beta 2

Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the second beta release of Mageia 3: "We are reaching the final run for Mageia 3 release - the beta 2 ISO images are available for tests. We will need your feedback on the Broadcom wireless chipset. We intentionally removed all proprietary drivers for it. So it comes configured using only the free one. This is a test to check support by the free drivers. If in some way we get too many failures, we will revert it to the hardware that still needs the proprietary driver. This release also comes with the brand-new vesion of LibreOffice, the 4.0.0 RC2 version." Read the brief release announcement and the more detailed release notes for more information and a list of known issues. Download links: Mageia-3-beta2-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso (1,428MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-3-beta2-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD.iso (1,389MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-3-beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso (4,039MB, MD5, torrent).

Mageia 3 Alpha 3

Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the third alpha release of Mageia 3: "Finally the bug hunt was successful and the alpha 3 release is now available for tests. We hope you will enjoy this new one. Upgrade from Mageia 2 is now possible and we need your feedback to make it smooth for final Mageia 3. Major new features: the first stage of the installer will now automatically pass the right URL to stage2; RPM has been upgraded to 4.10.1; urpmi has been re-factored and cleaned, various bugs have been fixed; base system - Linux kernel 3.6.5, systemd 195, Perl has been upgraded to 5.16.1; graphical environments - KDE 4.9.2, Qt 5 beta, GNOME 3.6.1, LibreOffice 3.6...." See the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download the installation DVD images (live CD and DVD images with KDE and GNOME are also available): Mageia-3-alpha3-i586-DVD.iso (3,864MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-3-alpha3-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,884MB, MD5, torrent).