{"id":3576,"date":"2018-05-31T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2018-05-31T17:08:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:08:16","slug":"monthly-news-may-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3576","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News – May 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to all of you, for your patience with the upcoming releases and for your help and donations to this project.<\/p>\n

All 3 editions of Linux Mint 19 (Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce) are currently in QA. The various bugs which were found were fixed and we’re expecting them to pass QA tomorrow. We’re planning the BETA release for Monday the 4th.<\/p>\n

We hope you’ll enjoy testing these BETAs and we look forward to receiving your feedback.<\/p>\n

The BETA phase for Mint 19 will be longer than usual, with a stable release planned for the end of June. A lot of code was ported to python3, gksu was removed and replaced with pkexec, MATE now supports HiDPI automatically, we’re using a brand new package base, the theme engine in GTK 3.22 is very different than in GTK 3.18 and might cause a few issues in Mint-X, and we’ve switched to Mint-Y and its new set of icons so we’re expecting many little bugs and paper cuts.<\/p>\n

These are usually very easy to fix, we just hope there won’t be too many \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Sponsorships:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Platinum Sponsors:<\/span>
\n\"Private<\/a>
\nGold Sponsors:
\n\"Linux<\/a>
\nSilver Sponsors:
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\n\"Acunetix\"<\/a>
\n\"Sucuri\"<\/a>
\nBronze Sponsors:
\n\"Vault<\/a>
\n\"AYKsolutions<\/a>
\n\"7L<\/a>
\n\"Goscomb\"<\/a>
\n\"BGASoft<\/a>
\n\"David<\/a><\/td>\n		Community Sponsors:<\/p>\n