The Long and Winding Road (Mageia Blog)
Over on the Mageia Blog, Rémi Verschelde explains why the Mageia 5 Beta 1 took a month and a half longer than planned—but is now available. Upgrading to RPM 4.12 during the release process caused some problems, but there were other troubles along the way.
"Still, while fixing our core tools during this first mass rebuild, some important changes were made to our RPM setup. As a consequence, half of the rebuilt packages (the ones built before our RPM setup changes) were lacking some important metadata. We then decided to do a second mass rebuild in October, which went quite fine apart from some issues with the Java stack. It was already late October when the first Beta 1 ISOs could be spun and delivered to the QA team for pre-release testing." Beta 2 has been pushed back to December 16, with a final release of Mageia 5 expected on January 31.