| guide | The Linux Mint 21.2 "Victoria" release appeared today on the project's global stable mirror, which means the developer will soon make an official announcement informing users who want to download the latest Linux Mint release. |
Linux Mint 21.2 begins public testing on June 21, 2023, which gives developers enough time to fix remaining issues and provide users with a stable, rock-solid release. Like previous versions, Victoria also offers the Cinnamon, Xfce, and MATE desktop environments.
This is the second product in the Linux Mint 21 series, which means it's based on Canonical's long-term supported Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) operating system series and features the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel series, which will also be supported for several years.
While the Xfce and MATE releases include the same Xfce 4.18 and MATE 1.26 desktop environments as the previous version, the Linux Mint Ultimate Edition with the Cinnamon desktop environment has been upgraded to the latest Cinnamon 5.8 release, which brings some new features and improvements .
For all editions, the Victoria release also brings global dark mode settings to support GTK4/libadwaita applications, support for the XDG desktop portal, better Flatpak application compatibility for users, and support for multiple keyboard layout.
Additionally, this release refreshes the look and feel of the distro by adding new folder icons in different colors, improving tooltip consistency so they look the same across applications and desktops, and resizing the title bar button and added a symbolic icon that adapts to its background.
Other changes include full support for HEIF and AVIF images, updated Xreader document viewer app to properly support Adobe Illustrator documents, updated Pix image viewer app to build on the gThumb 3.12.2 image viewer, updated Software Manager app , refreshed the UI, improved the scoring/sorting algorithm, and tweaked the package list.
In addition, the Warpinator app supports Landlock and Bubblewrap technologies for folder isolation and supports the latest security patches. Additionally, NVIDIA ™ (NVIDIA ® ) GPU offload support has been updated to be handled by the libxapp library and delegated to switcheroo used by Cinnamon and Mint Menu.
As it is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Linux Mint 21.2 is also a long-term support release, which will be supported until 2027 with security patches and software updates. The next release, Linux Mint 21.3, will use the same package base as Linux Mint 21.2.
You can download the Cinnamon, Xfce or MATE desktop for Linux Mint 21.2 using the direct download links below.