{"id":3322,"date":"2017-07-30T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2017-07-30T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T14:13:22","slug":"monthly-news-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3322","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News – July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to all the people who donated to us. Thank you for your support.<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoyed the recent release of Linux Mint 18.2 and the upgrades in LMDE.<\/p>\n

The development cycle for Linux Mint 18.3 was started and some really exciting improvements landed already.<\/p>\n

The software sources tool was ported to GTK3 and now supports HiDPI.<\/p>\n

Cinnamon gained support for HybridSleep.<\/p>\n

The login screen is more configurable than before. Options were added for automatic login as well as the ability to hide the user list and enter user names manually (this is useful for LDAP users). Panel indicators can be enabled\/disabled and now show tooltips. And last but not least, the Slick greeter now supports numlockx.<\/p>\n

Although app stores already existed in Android and iOS and similar concepts had been developed in PCBSD at the time, Linux Mint was one of the first distributions to introduce a Software Manager. This manager is still really good but it needed attention. A huge amount of work went into revamping it, making it look modern and polishing it to give a better user experience.<\/p>\n

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We’re still working on it at the moment but I can already tell you the following:<\/p>\n