Hi everyone,
Many thanks for your donations and support.
Here are the news for this month.
Important Firefox Update
On March 14, 2025, a root certificate used by Firefox will expire.
When this happen, Firefox version 128 (and lower) will suffer significant issues related to:
- configuration
- add-ons
- signed content
- DRM-protected media playback
To avoid these problems, make sure you’re up to date in your Update Manager. Press Refresh and apply all updates.
This is important for security reasons, and in this case it’s also important to avoid regressions.
Firefox 135.0.1 is available on all supported Linux Mint releases.
Firefox 135.0.1 was also sent as an emergency update to the following discontinued releases:
- Linux Mint 19.3, 19.2, 19.1 and 19
- LMDE 5
- LMDE 4
If you are using a discontinued version of Linux Mint (20 or older) or LMDE (5 or older) please upgrade or reinstall Linux Mint.
For more information on upgrades read https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade.html.
Website Maintenance
The backend for the main Linux Mint website was completely rewritten and containerized. This allowed us to minimize the interactions between the site and the hosting server, making it easier to upgrade the server and maintain/develop the website on different computers.
Sometimes we make a tiny little change and everybody loves it. This time it’s the opposite. It took a lot of time to get this done, yet nobody will be able to tell the difference.
The URLs were kept unchanged to avoid 404 errors.
Stripe was integrated and is now fully supported. Donations made with Stripe are now automatically handled and included in our stats.
Cinnamon App Menu
Work started on a redesign of the Cinnamon application menu.
This project is led by Joseph in our development team.
Here’s a preview of what it currently looks like:
Desktop and Release Stats
Our Datadog stats show us the following breakdown for our different desktops:
Note that these stats reflect downloads over the last 7 days, not usage.
Cinnamon represents 60% of our downloads, followed by Xfce and MATE at roughly 20% each.
The following chart gives us a breakdown per release:
Linux Mint 22.1 represents 70%, followed by LMDE 6 at 14%, Mint 22 at 8% and Mint 21.3, still relevant also at around 8%.
As previously announced, Linux Mint 22.x will not have an EDGE release. Starting with Linux Mint 22.2, the HWE kernel will be used.
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Donations in January:
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$250, Victor B.
$200 (3rd donation), Edmund B.
$200, Edgar Y.
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$150, Adam S.
$140, RS
$120 (8th donation), Markus S.
$108 (9th donation), Christian G. aka “Chrissy”
$108 (5th donation), Kristoff S.
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$81 (3rd donation), Thomas B.
$80 (4th donation), Terry Ya!
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$54 (21st donation), Bernard H.
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$50 (16th donation), An L.
$50 (10th donation), Ian H White.
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$50 (6th donation), William C. aka “N4ES”
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$40 (5th donation), Douglas R. aka “darco”
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$20, Pradeep Gowda aka “btbytes”
$20, Quebec
$20, Raymond R.
$20, S & CV Marshall
$20, SAVE4ENERGY
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$20, Tomasz K.
$20, Werner F.
$20, William W.
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