“As the upgrade path from Mageia 5 to Mageia 6 is harder than anticipated, many users are still on Mageia 5 today. We have therefore decided to prolong the support of Mageia 5 until December 31st, 2017 (instead of October 31st, 2017 as announced until now). ”

blog.mageia.org/en/2017/11/07/mageia-5-eol-postponed

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That's what I call responsible maintainers =)