{"id":177,"date":"2008-05-22T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2008-05-22T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T11:31:09","slug":"2nd-beta-confirmed-mint-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"2nd BETA confirmed &#8211; Mint 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll go through the details later on but I can already confirm that there will be a second BETA release for the Main Edition of Linux Mint 5 Elyssa. If things go as planned and provided Exploder agrees to release it, I&#8217;m hoping to have it ready and available for download on Monday the 26th of May. <\/p>\n<p>A huge number of changes were made since BETA 032 so we couldn&#8217;t afford to go towards a stable release without having a second BETA release tested by the community. <\/p>\n<p>Among the major changes: <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Firefox 3 upgraded to RC1.<br \/>\n&#8211; A lot of bugfixes (I&#8217;ll detail these in a later post)<br \/>\n&#8211; A lot of changes in the package base (I&#8217;ll detail this as well). <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also cleaned a lot of things and the ISO is currently 630MB&#8230; Of course it will get bigger as we approach the BETA release as there are things I also want to add (spell checkers for instance). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll go through the details later on but I can already confirm that there will be a second BETA release for the Main Edition of Linux Mint 5 Elyssa. If things go as planned and provided Exploder agrees to release it, I&#8217;m hoping to have it ready and available for download on Monday the 26th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}