{"id":3263,"date":"2017-06-01T13:01:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2017-06-01T13:01:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:01:36","slug":"monthly-news-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3263","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News – May 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” is just around the corner. The Cinnamon and MATE editions are currently in QA (functional testing) and we should be able to release them as BETA early this month.<\/p>\n

Cinnamon was upgraded to version 3.4 and MATE to version 1.18.<\/p>\n

The switch to LightDM was confirmed, with out of the box support for guest sessions and a beautiful login screen.<\/p>\n

Many improvements and new features were added to the system and applications such as Blueberry, Xed, Xplayer, Xreader, Pix, Xviewer, the Update Manager and the Software Sources configuration tool.<\/p>\n

We’re very excited about this new release and eager to receive your feedback on the BETAs.<\/p>\n

Last month I mentioned that donations weren’t as high as last year. We’ve seen a fantastic response since and it was clearly visible this month. We’ll report the May donations in the June monthly stats of course, but since the month of May has ended I can already communicate figures. We’ve received more than $16,000, which is more than twice as much as the figure for May last year. We usually see more donations “after” a release, not before. The number of people who donated in May is also quite impressive.. it’s very humbling to imagine 647 people assembled together, here just to support our work. I hope we won’t disappoint and you’ll get to love this new release as much as the previous ones.<\/p>\n

On behalf of the teams I’d like to express our gratitude for the support you’re giving us. Many thanks also to all the people who support us in other ways, whether it’s with ideas, patches, feedback or helping out within the community.<\/p>\n

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Community Sponsors:<\/p>\n