Announcements
Releases, security notices and statements from the project, in full.
22 April 2025
Happy Easter holidays! we made fruitful use of this time to provide you a nice surprise. The independent, community controlled distribution OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 fixed point release (as opposed to the rolling release branch), is out right now. Main features: - KDE Plasma 6 desktop by default (X11 and Wayland available) - …
17 March 2025
Hello, The users using OMLx 5.0 with Update channel ‘Rock’ will soon find a surprise: the system automatically converts to 6.0. This is all intentional, so don’t panic! The ‘Rock’ channel is designed …
26 January 2025
Dear Anonymous Donors, On behalf of the entire OpenMandriva team, we want to thank you a lot for your generous support. With your donation you contribute to keep the light on for the OpenMandriva project, allowing us to continue …
11 December 2024
Here is ROME 24.12 up-to-date installation media Main features, and changes since ROME 24.07 - KDE Plasma 6 desktop by default (x11) - Spins featuring latest desktop environments GNOME, LXQt Qt6, Plasma 5 and COSMIC 1.0 alpha - …
20 July 2024
Here is ROME 24.07, the rolling release model up-to-date install images. It basically carries all the features already included in the Release Candidate with the packages updated to the latest versions. Let’s make a summary …
3 July 2024
We are excited to announce the unscheduled Release Candidate for OpenMandriva rolling release model, ROME 24.07. This release brings significant updates and improvements. One of the most notable changes is the switch to Plasma 6 …
30 March 2024
As it might affect cooker and rolling users, please upgrade as soon as possible. A backdoor in liblzma, part of the xz compressor has been discovered. The exact workings of the backdoor are not yet known; it is, however, clear …
25 November 2023
OpenMandriva Lx 5.0, the long-awaited release of the independent, community controlled distribution’s fixed point release branch (as opposed to its rolling release branch), has been released. This is expected to be the last …
24 August 2023
The OpenMandriva Team is pleased to offer new ROME 23.08 install images. These ISOs are also to be considered as upcoming OMLx 5.0 Release Candidate. A Plasma 6 Technical Preview (cooker) install media is provided as well. …
5 April 2023
We are currently running a mass rebuild of all packages making up OpenMandriva, because we have updated our main compiler (this is the tool that translates programmer readable code into machine code) to Clang 16. While not …
In brief
Short items about what happens in the forum, the chat rooms and the repositories.
Cooker team
Warning: upcoming cooker breakageCooker team
Fixed bug installing with f2fs76 items in all.