Monthly News – April 2026 – The Linux Mint Blog

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Thank you for your support and your donations! Many thanks to everyone involved in helping Linux Mint.

HWE ISOs

Earlier this month we announced a longer development cycle and the decision not to release until Christmas 2026. To address compatibility issues with brand new hardware, we decided to start publishing updated ISO images called HWE (Hardware Enablement).

Linux Mint 22.3 was released in January with kernel 6.14. Today we’re publishing HWE ISO images for Linux Mint 22.3 with kernel 6.17. Going forward, we will publish HWE ISOs for the latest release whenever a newer kernel becomes available in the package base. Note that these ISOs are not new releases, but they are fully QA-tested and considered stable.

For more information or to download these ISOs: https://www.linuxmint.com/hwe.php

ALPHA Phase

We’re considering adding an ALPHA phase to the new release cycle. This would make it easier for people to get a preview of what is coming, and allow us to gather early feedback on some of the big changes we’re working on.

We have a new package base, a new screensaver, additional keyboard layout improvements, and a functional Wayland session. There’s a lot to test and more on the way.

Screensaver Bug Fix

Sometimes when you lock and suspend (this typically happens when you close the lid on a laptop), upon resume, you get to briefly see the session, until the lock screen appears. An update to cinnamon-settings-daemon (version 6.6.4) was pushed towards Linux Mint 22.3 and LMDE 7 to address this issue.

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