Many thanks to all of you, for your donations and for your support.
Upcoming releases
We are preparing 4 additional releases and we are hoping to publish them this month:
- Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” Xfce Edition (Stable release)
- Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” KDE Edition (Stable release)
- LMDE 2 “Betsy” Cinnamon Edition (BETA release)
- LMDE 2 “Betsy” MATE Edition (BETA release)
Note that LMDE 2 “Betsy” was originally released in 2015. It has received a continuous flow of updates since and we thought the time had come to re-release it, with the latest Cinnamon and MATE desktop environments, all the included updates and some fixes applied to its installer.
Upgrade paths
Users of the Xfce and KDE editions of Linux Mint 18 will be able to upgrade to 18.1 as soon as the stable releases are announced.
Cinnamon Spices
Many changes were implemented to facilitate the development, the maintenance and the delivery of Cinnamon add-ons, a.k.a. “spices”.
If you missed the earlier announcements, please read http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3199.
The design team is currently working on authentication, comments and rating to make the Cinnamon Spices website compatible with popular APIs such as Facebook, Google and Github. This will make it easier for people to comment and rate spices going forward.
In parallel to that, each spice is currently reviewed by the development team. The goal is to get to the point where all spices properly install and run and all themes properly support Cinnamon 3.2. It will take a few weeks for everything to work.. spices are 3rd party and some of them haven’t been maintained in years, but we’ll get there.
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