This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa” Cinnamon Edition.

Linux Mint 21 Vanessa Cinnamon Edition

Linux Mint 21 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 Cinnamon“.

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.
• It will be possible to upgrade from this BETA to the stable release.
• It will also be possible to upgrade from Linux Mint 20.3.

Bug reports:

• Bugs in this release should be reported on Github at https://github.com/linuxmint/mint21-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.

Download links:

Here are the download links:

• Torrent https://linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-21-cinnamon-64bit-beta.iso.torrent
• World LayerOnline
• Canada Manitoba Unix User Group
• Canada University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
• USA advancedhosters.com
• USA Clarkson University
• USA ette.biz
• USA GigeNET
• USA Harvard School of Engineering
• USA James Madison University
• USA kernel.org
• USA Linux Freedom
• USA MetroCast Cablevision
• USA Open Computing Facility at UC Berkeley
• USA Purdue Linux Users Group
• USA Sonic
• USA Team Cymru
• USA TeraSwitch
• USA US Internet
• USA XMission Internet
• Belarus ByFly
• Bulgaria IPACCT
• Bulgaria Netix Ltd
• Bulgaria Telepoint
• Bulgaria University of Ruse
• Czech Republic CZ.NIC
• Czech Republic IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center
• Czech Republic UPC Ceska republika
• Czech Republic Webglobe
• Denmark Dotsrc.org
• Denmark KLID
• France CREXIO
• France Crifo.org
• Germany Dark Penguin Network
• Germany dogado GmbH
• Germany FH Aachen
• Germany Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Germany Funkfreunde Landshut e.V.
• Germany GWDG
• Germany Hochschule Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
• Germany IPB Internet Provider in Berlin GmbH
• Germany NetCologne GmbH
• Germany Netzwerge GmbH
• Germany PyrateLAN.party
• Germany University of Frankfurt
• Germany wilhelm.tel GmbH
• Greece GreekLUG
• Greece Hellenic Telecommunications Organization
• Greece MyAegean team, University of the Aegean
• Greece National Technical University of Athens
• Greece University of Crete
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• Hungary Quantum Mirror
• Ireland HEAnet
• Latvia University of Latvia
• Luxembourg root S.A.
• Moldova iHost
• Netherlands KoDDoS
• Netherlands LiteServer
• Netherlands NLUUG
• Netherlands Triple IT
• Poland ICM – University of Warsaw
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• Portugal PTISP
• Portugal RNL – Técnico Lisboa
• Portugal Universidade do Porto
• Romania Hostico
• Romania M247
• Romania Orange Romania
• Russia Powernet ISP
• Russia Truenetwork
• Russia Yandex Team
• Serbia University of Kragujevac
• Slovakia Energotel
• Slovakia Rainside
• Spain Aire Networks
• Spain Oficina de Software Libre do Cixug
• Sweden Academic Computer Club, Umea University
• Sweden c0urier.net
• Sweden Infania Networks
• Sweden Zetup
• Switzerland Init7
• Turkey Linux Kullanicilari Dernegi
• Turkey Turhost
• Turkey Verinomi
• Ukraine ASTRA
• Ukraine FastMirror
• Ukraine IP-Connect LLC
• United Kingdom Bytemark Hosting
• United Kingdom UK Dedicated Servers
• United Kingdom UKFast
• United Kingdom University of Kent UK Mirror Service
• China Nanjing University
• China Shanghai Jiao Tong University Linux User Group (SJTUG)
• Hong Kong KoDDoS
• India PicoNets-WebWerks
• Iran Bardia Moshiri
• Iran HostIran
• Israel Israel Internet Association
• Kazakhstan Hoster.kz
• Kazakhstan PS Internet Company LLC
• Singapore 0x.sg
• South Korea Harukasan
• South Korea KAIST
• Taiwan NCHC
• Taiwan TamKang University
• Thailand Kasetsart University
• Thailand Khon Kaen University
• Thailand Songkla University
• Vietnam Freedif
• Australia AARNet
• Australia Internode
• New Zealand University of Canterbury
• Argentina Zero.com.ar
• Brazil Federal University of Mato Grosso
• Brazil Federal University of Sao Carlos
• Brazil ITS Telecomunicacoes
• Brazil Universidade Federal do Amazonas
• Chile NetActuate
• Chile Universidad de La Frontera
• Ecuador CEDIA
• Ecuador Escuela Politecnica Natcional
• Botswana Retention Range
• Kenya Liquid Telecom
• South Africa Dimension Data
• South Africa University of Free State
• South Africa WIRUlink

Integrity and authenticity checks:

Once you have downloaded an image, please verify its integrity and authenticity.

Anyone can produce fake ISO images, it is your responsibility to check you are downloading the official ones.

• Please read and follow the steps at https://linuxmint.com/verify.php
• Link to the sums: sha256sum.txt
• Link to the signed sums: sha256sum.txt.gpg

Enjoy!

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

Thank you for your patience and many thanks to all our donors and sponsors.

Linux Mint 21 is almost ready for BETA. We’re entering QA testing this week-end. The BETA release will happen next week.

Linux Mint 21

Last month we got negative feedback about systemd-oom.  After investigating some of the issues we decided not to add it to Linux Mint 21.

Home directory encryption continues to be available in the installer.

The decision was made to keep os-prober enabled by default to guarantee proper dual-boot detection out of the box.

Webp support was added to xviewer and thumbnailers.

Blueman 2.3 is in and replaces Blueberry.

In rsync mode, Timeshift now calculates the required space for the next snapshot and skips it if performing that snapshot lead to less than 1GB free space on the disk.

Check your Automated Updates

On June 21st at 3pm, mintupdate 5.8.3 was released. It only contained two changes, the removal of files we no longer needed and a bump of its package’s debhelper version from 9 to 10.

A few hours later we received a bug report from a user who had taken this update. His automated updates which were disabled until then had been enabled by the update on his behalf. We investigated the situation and found out there was a nasty side effect to updating to debhelper 10; It enabled all the systemd services and timers provided by the package!

We quickly reverted the debhelper version back to 9 and released mintupdate 5.8.4 that same day at 9pm.

Mintupdate 5.8.3 was only available for about 6 hours but users who took it as an update got their automated updates enabled by default.

To know if you were impacted go to “Update Manager -> View ->  History of Updates” and see if mintupdate 5.8.3 is present in the list. If it’s there, you are impacted and your automated updates are enabled. If it’s not (say you’re still on an old version, or you went directly from 5.8.2 to 5.8.4), then you’re not impacted.

If you are impacted go to “Update Manager -> Edit -> Preferences -> Automation” and disable “Automatic Updates”.

In Mint 21, mintupdate 5.8.5 no longer relies solely on systemd timers/services to be enabled. The fact that such a small and innocent change lead to a huge regression really surprised us. This is a lesson for us and it confirms that we should rely on frameworks such as systemd or debhelper as little as possible.

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