Monthly News - December 2023

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4619

Linux Mint 21.3 - 15 remaining bugs to be tackled this week and preparations made for a stable release and an upgrade path.

LMDE 6 will receive all the new updates featured in Linux Mint 21.3.

New EDGE ISO for Linux Mint 21.3 shipping with a kernel 6.2.

Thanks to londoner of mintCast.org for the summary.

Mint Monthly News – July 2024

Linux Mint 22 is ready. The release will be announced this week. It will be followed by upgrade instructions for Linux Mint 21.3 and package backports for LMDE 6.
The BETA phase was very productive. We went through a total of 203 bug reports, it was intense.
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4730

Thanks to mintcast.org for the updates.

Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” released!
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4731

Yes, this is a costly screw-up

There is no fix for Intel's crashing 13th/14th Gen CPUs – damage is permanent
Article, Comments

Monthly News August 2024

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4740

The repository servers were upgraded.
The upgrade between Mint 21.3 and 22 was broken last week due to package conflicts introduced upstream in Ubuntu 24.04 on samba and libreoffice. See blog for more details.
Outside of Linux Mint, Cinnamon looks pretty ugly. To address this problem Cinnamon 5.4 will ship with a much improved default theme.
Maintaining better APT libraries and utilities.
LMDE 5 “Elsie” reached End Of Life and is no longer maintained.

Thanks to mintcast.org for the summary.

Mint Monthly News – September 2024

Visual improvements in Cinnamon
+The new default theme is much darker and contrasted than before. Objects are rounded and a gap was introduced between the applets and the panel.
+The dialogs were redesigned. They’re nicely balanced and feature separated buttons.
+When an application is frozen and no longer responds Cinnamon shows a “Force Quit” dialog. This used to be a Gtk window. It was rewritten in Clutter to look like the rest of Cinnamon:
+The media-buttons OSD looks more modern and much cleaner than before, and so does the Workspace OSD.
+Also working on notifications, animations, the main menu, pkexec/logout dialogs, a new status applet…

+The transition towards Aptkit and Captain is now finished. Starting with Linux Mint 22.1, set to be released this December, none of our projects will depend on aptdaemon, synaptic, gdebi or apturl anymore.
No more translation issues. Everything is now fully translated.
No more bugs/papercuts. We no longer depend on unmaintained components which are upstream from us.
Redefined scope. Anything we didn’t need was removed, anything that was missing (purging packages, downgrading to specific packages etc..) was added.
+This allowed us to completely refactor the code in the Update Manager and greatly simplify its architecture
+In the Software Sources tool, the downgrading of foreign packages was performed via a VTE (an embedded terminal). This is now handled by Aptkit directly, with a nice progress dialog.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4749

Thanks to mintcast.org for the summary.

Mint Monthly News – October 2024

The team is working on adding Night Light support in Cinnamon.
Work continues on migrating key Cinnamon dialogs to Clutter.
Stripe was added as an alternative to PayPal on the donors page.
The team started working with Framework. They’re hoping this will lead towards a great partnership.
Some of our branded clothes will soon be discontinued. Hellotux can’t source the green Mint shirts anymore.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4762

Thanks to mintcast.org for the summary.

Mint Monthly News – November 2024

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4787
Release of 22.1 BETAs

Mint Monthly News – December 2024

"The BETA phase for Linux Mint 22.1 is now over. 115 reports were received and many bugs were fixed. Many thanks for your help during this beta-test!

After a few days of QA testing we’ll be ready to publish the stable release. The new features will then make their way towards LMDE and we’ll open up the upgrade path from Linux Mint 22."

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4790

Thanks to mintcast.org for the summary.

Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” released!

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4793

Mint Monthly News – January 2025

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4803

Thanks to mintcast.org.

Mint Monthly News – February

On March 14, 2025, a root certificate used by Firefox will expire. When this happens, Firefox version 128 (and lower) will suffer significant issues related to:
configuration
add-ons
signed content
DRM-protected media playback
Make sure you are updated. Firefox 135.0.1 has been backported to Mint 19.x and LMDE 4/5.

The backend for the main Linux Mint website was completely rewritten and containerized.

Work started on a redesign of the Cinnamon application menu.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4811

Thanks to mintcast.org for the summary.

Mint Monthly News – March 2025

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4825

Features coming in upcoming releases
Improved search in Nemo
Support for keyboard layouts and input methods to Cinnamon in Wayland
OEM Support in LMDE
JavaScript interpreter (CJS) will be versioned according to the Mozilla JavaScript engine it uses

Thanks to mintcast.org for the summary.