{"id":2698,"date":"2014-11-01T15:24:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T19:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2014-11-01T15:24:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T19:24:15","slug":"cinnamon-2-4-available-for-beta-testing-in-linux-mint-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2698","title":{"rendered":"Cinnamon 2.4 available for beta-testing in Linux Mint 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brand new version of Cinnamon is out and it will be featured in the upcoming release of Linux Mint 17.1 at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>For a quick look at its new features, please read the official announcement: <a href=\"http:\/\/segfault.linuxmint.com\/2014\/11\/cinnamon-2-4\/\">Cinnamon 2.4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the next two weeks we&#8217;ll be using your feedback to improve Cinnamon and to fix eventual bugs in preparation for the next Linux Mint release.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to help beta-test the new desktop (beware: There will be bugs, there always are bugs in new releases, that&#8217;s why we leave a month between the releases of Cinnamon and Linux Mint), you can upgrade Cinnamon to version 2.4.0 by following the instructions below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launch Menu-&gt;Administration-&gt;&#8221;Software Sources&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Tick the option &#8220;Unstable Packages (Romeo)&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Carefully read the warning in the dialog that pops up and click &#8220;Yes&#8221; if appropriate.<\/li>\n<li>Launch the Update Manager and click on &#8220;Refresh&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>If a new mintupdate version is shown, apply it.<\/li>\n<li>Apply all updates related to Cinnamon (sort by version, 2.4.0 or 2.4.1, or by update type since they all come from Romeo).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy, don&#8217;t take unnecessary risks (this will be all completely stable in less than a month) and don&#8217;t forget to send us your feedback \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brand new version of Cinnamon is out and it will be featured in the upcoming release of Linux Mint 17.1 at the end of the month. For a quick look at its new features, please read the official announcement: Cinnamon 2.4 In the next two weeks we&#8217;ll be using your feedback to improve Cinnamon [&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-2698","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\/2698","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=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}