{"id":3634,"date":"2018-08-31T15:59:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2018-08-31T15:59:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:59:21","slug":"monthly-news-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3634","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News \u2013 August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to all of you, for your donations and for your support.<\/p>\n

I hope you had a great summer (or winter if you live in the South hemisphere). Here we’re eager to get into September, with LMDE 3 and Mint 19 behind us, we’re ready to get started on some of the big projects.<\/p>\n

LMDE<\/strong><\/p>\n

LMDE 3 was released today. I’d like to thank all the people involved in the project and also all the people who reported issues to us and who helped us fix bugs during the BETA.<\/p>\n

The upgrade path for the Cinnamon edition was also opened. Timeshift, Slick Greeter and mintupgrade were backported towards LMDE 2 to facilitate the upgrade and the switch from MDM with sysvinit to LightDM with Systemd.<\/p>\n

If you are running LMDE 2 Cinnamon, please upgrade before the end of the year. We’ll continue to support LMDE 2 until the 1st of January 2019.<\/p>\n

The LMDE 2 MATE edition cannot be upgraded (Debian’s version of MATE is only 1.16 and this edition is no longer present in LMDE 3), we recommend users perform data and software backups and upgrade their OS via fresh installations. MATE packages in LMDE 2 will also be supported until the 1st of the January 2019.<\/p>\n

Software Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Software Sources tool was given a new look. Similar to the welcome screen, it’s now using an Xapp sidebar and a headerbar.<\/p>\n

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The optional sources section was also simplified and we’re planning to add a new option to make it easy to add debug repositories (to adapt to Debian’s decision to move debug symbols to dbgsym packages\/repositories).<\/p>\n

Mint-Y theme contrast
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Within the feedback we received during the release of Linux Mint 19 it was highlighted that the Mint-Y theme didn’t have enough contrast and that some labels were hard to read.<\/p>\n

Work started on improving the theme’s contrast.<\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of Timeshift as it appears in Mint 19:<\/p>\n

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And here’s a picture of it with the contrast improvements:<\/p>\n

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The foreground colors were darkened (this is particularly visible here in the symbolic toolbar icons). The titlebar label is more pronounced as well, and the frame and contour of some of the widgets appear more clearly within the user interface.<\/p>\n

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

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:<\/p>\n

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Platinum Sponsors:<\/span>
\n\"Private<\/a>
\nGold Sponsors:
\n\"Linux<\/a>
\nSilver Sponsors:
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n\"Sucuri\"<\/a>
\nBronze Sponsors:
\n\"Vault<\/a>
\n\"AYKsolutions<\/a>
\n\"7L<\/a>
\n\"Goscomb\"<\/a>
\n\"BGASoft<\/a>
\n\"David<\/a>
\n\"OpusVL\"<\/a><\/td>\n		Community Sponsors:<\/p>\n