Mageia 8 - Beta 1 is available for testing

After good feedback from Mageia 8 Alpha, some improvements and fixes have been made for this version. Here are some of the major packages and enhancements included in this release:

- Kernel - 5.7.9
- glib - 2.31
- gcc - 10.1.1
- rpm - 4.16.0
- Crome - 81
- Firefox - 78
- LibreOffice - 6.4.5
- Plasma - 5.19.3
- GNOME 3.36
- Xfce 4.15 .2

- all packages have now been built for AArch64 and ARM v7

- both live and classic environments have been improved with the use of ZStd compression.

- AppStream has been improved to allow better integration with GNOME and Plasma.

A complete list of included packages is available in the installation's .idx file.

The available ISO images are the same as in Mageia 7, offering installation media for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems, 64-bit live images for Plasma, GNOME and Xfce, and 32-bit live for Xfce.