{"id":3926,"date":"2020-06-27T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T12:07:08","slug":"monthly-news-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3926","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News – June 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re almost ready to release Linux Mint 20. Following this release, before we move on to the next development cycle, we’ll take two weeks to work on the upgrade path from Linux Mint 19.3 and the port of the new features in LMDE 4.<\/p>\n

I’d like to thank everyone who took part in the BETA. Thanks to your participation, we received a lot of feedback and we were able to fix very important bugs. 167 reports were processed. Among other important changes, Cinnamon fractional scaling was made more intuitive, many translations issues were solved, LVM encrypted installs no longer require an Internet connection, panel layout selection was brought back in the Welcome Screen, support for StatusNotifier icons (Qt and Electron apps) was improved. Many components received bug fixes and as always the BETA phase allowed us to identify new issues and get a better release.<\/p>\n

We also had to make a few tough decisions. The new Mint-Y colors were postponed until Linux Mint 20.1. The change which made the Grub menu always visible was reverted, and the Grub theme, which in this release prevented Linux Mint 20 to boot on particular laptops was removed.<\/p>\n

As we made these changes, we felt the need to document them, so we took the opportunity to start gathering info into a new guide called The Linux Mint User Guide<\/a>. At the moment it’s just a collection of pages which cover new topics such as how to configure and theme Grub, how to install Chromium, why Snap is disabled and how to enable it. As we go along we’ll add more and more information in this guide and we’re hoping it will grow into something very helpful for the community.<\/p>\n

Last but not least I’d like to thank you for your donations and for your support. We receive more than 700 donations a month. When we make difficult decisions or take a stance we also feel your trust and your support. You make us strong, you empower us and you allow us to be more assertive, demanding and focused on what we want to do, who we want to be and where we want to go as a distribution.<\/p>\n

Each release is an achievement and a celebration. It’s an amazing feeling when it’s ready and you enjoy it. I hope this new series of releases will be as successful as the previous ones and I hope you’ll have a lot of fun and pleasure using them.<\/p>\n\n

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

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gold Sponsors:
\"Linux<\/a>
Silver Sponsors:
\"Sucuri\"<\/a>
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\"Tibor<\/a>
Bronze Sponsors:
\"Vault<\/a>
\"AYKsolutions<\/a>
\"hSo\"<\/a>
\"BGASoft<\/a>
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\"Feathercoin\"<\/a>
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\"Synapse<\/a>
\"Uwe<\/a><\/td>\n		Community Sponsors:
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