The development cycle of Linux Mint 21.2 closes with Xfce 4.18 and a Cinnamon 5.8 that supports gestures for window management

Linux Mint 21.2 Win

Clem lefebvre posted the monthly newsletter for June 2023, which includes the most important things that have happened during the month of May. It has not been a long article nor with too many flourishes, but it has included some interesting details. The first thing is that the development cycle of Linux Mint 21.2 it has already been closed and most of the projects have been uploaded to the repositories for the next release.

Linux Mint 21.2 will have the code name of Victoria, something that it was already known, but the versions of the desktops that it will carry have yet to be confirmed. Xfce will update to v4.18, and Cinnamon, while this was almost a certainty, will update to v5.8. From his own desk, Clem says that Cinnamon 5.8 will support gestures for window management and workspaces, stacking, and media controls. These gestures will be supported on both touchpads and touch screens and tablets. There has been no news about the MATE edition today.

Linux Mint 21.2 will be codenamed Victoria

Among the rest of the changes, CJS has become based on GJS 1.74 and Mozjs 102, support for XDG Desktop Portal has been added to all available desktops, which as a reminder are Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce, among other things that bring an adjustment of the global dark mode.

This setting affects apps that support it and allows you to choose to prefer light, dark, or let the apps decide. Among the applications that support it we have Firefox, Xed, Thingy, Xreader, along with others that have the default dark theme such as Xviewer or Pix. This tweak is also supported by many flatpak and GNOME/libadwaita applications. This June's bulletin ends by talking over the fact that the software manager has received cosmetic tweaks, improved punctuation and ordering algorithms, and adjusted package list.

Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria will arrive sometime this summer in the Northern Hemisphere, probably in August.


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  1.   German klenner said

    In August?
    I understand that it is released this month, June.

  2.   rick said

    thank you very much i love linux mint

  3.   employee said

    Hello, today I upgraded to mint 21.2
    all good, no problem