{"id":2923,"date":"2015-10-01T12:15:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T11:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2015-10-01T12:15:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T11:15:39","slug":"monthly-news-september-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2923","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News – September 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

News<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’ve a lot of news this month. Before getting started and talking about what we’ve been working on, I’d like to thank all the people who helped us. More than 300 people donate to us every month and more so than the financial support this gives us, it’s also a sign of appreciation and happiness from our users and that really boosts our confidence. We also rely on a strong network of sponsors and partners and it’s a real pleasure to work in these conditions and with that level of support. So to all of you who are involved in helping us like that, I’d like to send a very big thank you.<\/p>\n

I’d also like to take the opportunity to relay two old pieces of news from our partners.<\/p>\n

In August, CompuLab completed the transition to Mint 17.2. New Mintbox 2<\/a> and Mintbox Mini<\/a> units now ship with Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon edition.<\/p>\n

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And in February, HELLOTUX started shipping Linux Mint sweaters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Apologies to CompuLab and HELLOTUX for covering this information so late.<\/p>\n

“Rosa”, the codename for Linux Mint 17.3 was recently announced<\/a>, and many new features were implemented in preparation for its release.<\/p>\n

On top of the improvements which were mentioned last month<\/a>, Cinnamon 2.8 will introduce a visual workspace switcher applet<\/a> and a better sound applet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>MATE 1.12 received a lot of attention and will feature the following changes:<\/p>\n