Despite the care we take to test isos for new versions of Mageia, we missed a potentially huge bug… It concerned the isos using the classical installer. If the user chose to add online media at the beginning of the installation, it would result in the system being updated to Cauldron, the development version of Mageia. This was due to the initial isos including a partial misidentification, referring to the development version (and not the Official one). The update media added pointed to Mageia Cauldron and not to the Mageia 3 repositories. Please note that users who chose to add online media only at the end of the installation would not be affected by this problem.

While the new isos were being prepared and tested, a temporary fix was applied on our infrastructure to automatically redirect to the Mageia 3 media. Thus only users of Cauldron were affected and should therefore explicitly install the media for Cauldron.

The patch has now been applied and new isos have been made available to replace the first ones.

If you download isos directly from one of our mirror, you can check easily that you have the latest version. Check the DATE.txt file on the mirror. You should have:

DVD 32: Thu Jun 6 2013 3:40:24 p.m. EST

DVD 64: Thu Jun 6 2013 3:49:47 p.m. EST

Dual CD: Thu Jun 6 2013 3:56:17 p.m. EST

Using our web site (you can also do it in other cases), you can check md5sum:

Mageia-3-dual-CD.iso: a2a9917c068d2a50ff2312821b055a1e

Mageia-3-i586-DVD.iso: d80fd26018e98a03ae020f15327fccf4

Mageia-3-x86_64-DVD.iso: 16547c7c1f933322122820468aa91e14

You can also check the contents of the following files (for example installation x86_64):

/etc/product.id

vendor=Mageia.Org,distribution=Mageia,type=Basic,version=3,

branch=Official,release=1,arch=x86_64,product=Default

/etc/mageia-release

Mageia release 3 (Official) for x86_64

Please note that we did not update the software contained on the isos to prevent unwanted regressions and new issues. Therefore the errata still apply, and were accordingly updated.