Happy New Year!

Many thanks for your support and for your donations. We received $10191 in November and $24146 in December. The number of donors was also quite impressive: 383 in November and 751 in December!

I’d like to thank you all for this and what it means to us. It doesn’t just help us financially, it makes us feel awesome and extremely proud of you, of us, of our project and our community. Thank you!

Linux Mint 21.3

The BETA phase for Linux Mint 21.3 has been relatively quiet. We received 50 bug reports. 35 of them are closed.

We’ll tackle the remaining 15 this week and make the preparations for a stable release and an upgrade path.

LMDE 6

LMDE 6 will receive all the new updates featured in Linux Mint 21.3. This will happen shortly before the stable release.

21.3 EDGE ISO

During BETA testing we identified compatibility issues between Linux Mint and new hardware devices (recent AMD graphics but also wireless chipsets and SSD controllers used in Acer laptops). These are solved by upgrading the kernel series from 5.15 to 6.5.

We’ll therefore prepare a new EDGE ISO for Linux Mint 21.3 shipping with a kernel 6.5.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

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Donations in November:

A total of $10,191 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 383 donors:

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$167 (4th donation), Michael M.
$150 (8th donation), Duncan G. aka “catraeus”
$150 (7th donation), Abigail M.
$150 (2nd donation), Gregory F.
$132 (7th donation), Alan H.
$108 (3rd donation), Nicolas S.
$108 (3rd donation), Wolfgang B.
$108, Claudia H.
$108, Thorsten R.
$100 (41th donation), Fast Junkie
$100 (10th donation), Timothy P.
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$100 (2nd donation), Bruce K.
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$100, Kaori E.
$80 (3rd donation), Brandon O.
$75 (3rd donation), James Y.
$65 (2nd donation), Jerome L.
$60 (5th donation), Allan G.
$54 (153th donation), Olli K.
$54 (20th donation), Naoise G.
$54 (19th donation), Bjarne K.
$54 (12th donation), Torsten P.
$54 (6th donation), Uwe O.
$54 (3rd donation), Markus F.
$54 (2nd donation), Christoph F.
$54, Andreas F.
$54, Armin B.
$54, Bernhard
$54, Cecilio P.
$54, Christian M.
$54, Christoph H.
$54, Hans-georg P.
$54, Jens C.
$54, Karl-martin K.
$54, Mark B.
$54, Martin Wozenilek
$54, Matthias R.
$54, Michele P.
$54, Roberto T.
$54, Siegfried G.
$54, Simon W.
$54, Torsten B.
$54, Wilfried K.
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$50, David S.
$50, Donald G.
$50, Eric J.
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$50, Michael D.
$50, Minty F.
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$40 (9th donation), Patrick C.
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$39, Jeffrey W.
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$32 (3rd donation), Stephan D.
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$32, Maurits V.
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$30, Markus H.
$30, Michael M.
$30, Stephen C.
$28, Andreas W.
$27 (7th donation), Kari Y.
$27 (2nd donation), Christoph W.
$27, Maria Gerda B.
$25 (33rd donation), Linux Mint Sverige
$25 (13th donation), Charles W.
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$25, Kevin H.
$22 (42th donation), Peter E.
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$22 (9th donation), Juergen M. B.
$22 (7th donation), Frank H.
$22 (6th donation), goppermann
$22 (5th donation), Dominique M. O.
$22 (5th donation), Jose Luis Nuñez Crespi
$22 (5th donation), Marek S. (LMDE Supporter)
$22 (5th donation), Ralf S.
$22 (4th donation), Arno W.
$22 (4th donation), Jens F.
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$22, Bernd B.
$22, Carlos G.
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$22, Manuel S.
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$22, Murilo aka “muras”
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$22, Patrick F.
$22, Patryk C.
$22, Rafael V.
$22, Roy V.
$22, Susan D.
$22, Timothy W.
$22, Zsolnay I.
$21, Alan G.
$20 (62th donation), Bryan F.
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$20 (9th donation), Mark F.
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$20, Joseph Ericson A.
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This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia”.

Linux Mint 21.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

New features:

This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements.

For an overview of the new features please visit:

“What’s new in Linux Mint 21.3“.

System requirements:

• 2GB RAM (4GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
• 20GB of disk space (100GB recommended).
• 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).

Upgrade instructions:

• This BETA release might contain critical bugs, please only use it for testing purposes and to help the Linux Mint team fix issues prior to the stable release.
• Upgrade instructions will be published after the stable release of Linux Mint 21.3.
• It will be possible to upgrade from this BETA to the stable release.
• It will also be possible to upgrade from Linux Mint 21, 21.1 and Linux Mint 21.2.

Bug reports:

• Bugs in this release should be reported on Github at https://github.com/linuxmint/mint21.3-beta.
• Create one issue per bug.
• As described in the Linux Mint Troubleshooting Guide, do not report or create issues for observations.
• Be as accurate as possible and include any information that might help developers reproduce the issue or understand the cause of the issue:
  • Bugs we can reproduce, or which cause we understand are usually fixed very easily.
  • It is important to mention whether a bug happens “always”, or “sometimes”, and what triggers it.
  • If a bug happens but didn’t happen before, or doesn’t happen in another distribution, or doesn’t happen in a different environment, please mention it and try to pinpoint the differences at play.
  • If we can’t reproduce a particular bug and we don’t understand its cause, it’s unlikely we’ll be able to fix it.
• The BETA phase is literally a bug squashing rush, where the team is extremely busy and developers try to fix as many bugs as fast as possible.
• There usually are a huge number of reports and very little time to answer everyone or explain why a particular report is not considered a bug, or won’t get fixed. Don’t let this frustrate you, whether it’s acknowledged or not, we appreciate everyone’s help.

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We look forward to receiving your feedback. Many thanks in advance for testing the BETA!

Many thanks for your donations and for your support!

I’ll be brief today because we’re a little bit late in our schedule. The holiday season is coming and so is Linux Mint 21.3.

Linux Mint 21.3

The ISO images for Linux Mint 21.3 are currently in QA. We’re almost done with the testing. We’re expecting a BETA release this week.

Nemo Actions

Right-click an .iso file. You see “Verify” and “Make bootable USB stick” in the context menu? These are Nemo actions.

Until now actions were provided by packages and we only shipped actions which were useful to most people. These two actions, for instance, are part of the mintstick package.

Starting with Cinnamon 6.0, you’ll be able to download, enable and rate actions the same way as applets, desklets, extensions and Cinnamon themes.

Actions will be a new type of Cinnamon spices.

We’ll see a huge variety of new actions popping up in the community and available in Cinnamon.

Wayland Support

With Linux Mint 21.3 and Cinnamon 6.0 we’ll start providing experimental (as in ALPHA) support for Wayland. As previously announced this won’t take priority over Xorg, we’ll take our time to fix Wayland issues, but we’ll start accepting bug reports nonetheless.

We have a dedicated Github repository for issues related to Wayland, whether they need fixing in Cinnamon, in an XApp project, a Mint tool or anything software project we maintain: https://github.com/linuxmint/wayland.

Other News

Hypnotix recently received the ability to set favorite channels. It will also feature the ability to create custom channels. If you have a link to stream from, whether it’s live or not, you’ll be able to turn it into a custom TV channel. This makes it possible to use Hypnotix without any playlist or any IPTV provider. You could even use this to create channels for your favorite YouTube music videos.

In Slick Greeter, the login screen, the alignment of the login box is now configurable.

Bulky, the batch file renaming tool, received support for thumbnails and drag and drop.

In Pix, video playback now takes the video orientation into account and automatically rotates it.

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