The Mageia development team recently met to solidify their plans for releasing Mageia 10 as the next major release of this LInux distribution with its roots that trace back to the days of Mandrake Linux.
The main takeaway for end-users is that Mageia developers are hoping to release Mageia 10 in April 2026. For that to happen a beta should be out in early January, a second beta in February, the release candidate, and then the final release in April.
Mageia 10 is planning to ship with the latest Linux desktop packages, GCC 15 and LLVM 20.1 compilers, PHP 8.4/8.5, Python 3.13, Java 21 LTS, and either Linux 6.12 LTS or Linux 6.18 LTS kernels.
With Mageia 10 they intend to continue supporting 32-bit operating system builds. The CPU requirements are being raised from i586 to i686 but they are keeping 32-bit around even with 32-bit ISOs becoming a more difficult challenge. Due to Mozilla Firefox dropping 32-bit support, uncertainty around Chromium support, and the waning 32-bit interest in general has made it a more difficult support burden but they are continuing to produce these ISOs for those that want them.
Those wishing to learn more about the Mageia 10 planning can do so via the Mageia.org blog. This will be a big step forward for this Linux distribution with Mageia 9 having been introduced back in August 2023.
