July was all about the releases, a lot of testing and bug fixing 
The Cinnamon and MATE editions of Linux Mint 17.2 were released and users of these editions were able to upgrade from Linux Mint 17 and 17.1. Everything went well and the reception was very good. It was a real pleasure for us to see you discover the improvements we worked on in the last 6 months.
OEM and no-codecs installation images should become available tomorrow.
LMDE 2 Betsy received all the improvements and new packages that were held during the RC phases.
We’re now in the RC phase for the Xfce and KDE editions. So far most of the bugs were either minor or cosmetic. The upgrade paths for these two editions were also successfully tested and will be open to 17 and 17.1 users at around the same time as the stable releases, around the end of the month.
By the beginning of August we should be ready to start developing again. Many ideas were kept for the next development cycle, some commits are already there, pull requests were held, developers are probably eager to see things move again. It’s an exciting phase of the project, where we’ve no idea what the next version will be like, but we’ve got a lot of ideas and resources at our disposal and plenty of time to get ambitious
Many thanks to all the people who donated to us, and to our sponsors for supporting us. A big thank you also to the 10% of users (according to our torrent stats) who take the time to test the RC releases. The feedback you give us during the RC is a huge opportunity for us to improve and Linux Mint often gets significant improvements prior to stable releases (this time around I can’t help but think at how you allowed us to improve EFI support and NVIDIA Prime, so thanks a lot for that). You all help us in very different ways, we don’t often get the chance to communicate back or to acknowledge individual efforts, but we’re very grateful to be helped so much.
See you all in August
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Donations in June:
A total of $10,396 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 445 donors:
$500, Stephen K.
$300 (2nd donation), Am33r
$164, Vincent C. S.
$109, Angelos Kyritsis aka “PCsteps”
$100 (4th donation), Philip W.
$100 (2nd donation), Valter E.
$100, David F.
$100, Kerry R.
$100, Jeffrey C Drywater
$100, David D.
$100, Bob H.
$100, Andrew P.
$100, Stephen N.
$100, Radim D.
$100, Michael T.
$77, Rüdiger H.
$77, Pierre R.
$75, Sam H.
$75, Mark L.
$75, Fabio L. D. P.
$66, Andrew C.
$64.3 (2nd donation), Liran N.
$60, Stephen B.
$55 (16th donation), Pasi K.
$55 (4th donation), David B.
$55 (3rd donation), Ib O. J.
$55 (3rd donation), Joseph R. aka “killinjoe”
$55 (3rd donation), Stefan K. aka “radi1962”
$55 (2nd donation), http://societyofcontrol.com
$55 (2nd donation), Sten L.
$55, J. M. Monllau aka “kosema”
$55, Peter A.
$55, Robert S.
$55, Jerry L.
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$55, Dominique S.
$55, Philippe C.
$55, Dave A.
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$55, Lee C.
$50 (62th donation), Matthew M.
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$50 (3rd donation), Alfred H. aka “Varmint Al”
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$50, Frank R.
$50, krumm
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$50, David P.
$50, Lonnie H.
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$50, Vincent S.
$50, Roberto M.
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$50, Paul B.
$50, Thomas Z.
$50, Creative Chrome
$50, attainConsult.com
$50, Erik G.
$50, debinc
$48, Julian O.
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$40, Yuriy G.
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$40, José F.
$38.91 (6th donation), Scott L.
$38, John B. aka ” blackpool”
$33 (64th donation), Olli K.
$33 (3rd donation), Jon M. aka “GoLinuxMint.com”
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$33, Agusti S. F.
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$30 (2nd donation), Javier C. M.
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$25.4 (3rd donation), Marcin Ziółkowski aka Mario Nesta
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$10 (44th donation), Tsuguo S.
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$10 (5th donation), Libertad Tecnologica
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$5.21, Addy K. S.
$5 (28th donation), A. M. Mariani. aka “zantaz”
$5 (26th donation), A. M. Mariani. aka “zantaz”
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