After six months of development, the Cinnamon 5.0 userspace has been released, with the Linux Mint development community developing a fork of the GNOME Shell, Nautilus file manager, and Mutter window manager, aimed at providing a classic GNOME 2-style environment with support for good interaction elements from GNOME Shell . Cinnamon is based on the GNOME components, but these components are shipped as a periodically synchronized fork with no external dependencies to GNOME. Changing the version number to 5.0 is not associated with any particularly important changes, but only continues the tradition of using even decimal digits for numbering stable versions (4.6, 4.8, 5.0, etc.). The new release of Cinnamon will be offered in the Linux Mint 20.2 distribution, which is scheduled for release in mid-June.
Main innovations:
- Provides settings to determine the maximum allowable memory consumption of desktop components and set the interval for checking the memory status. When the limit is exceeded, Cinnamon background processes are automatically restarted without losing the session and keeping open application windows. The proposed feature is a workaround for hard-to-diagnose memory leaks, such as those that only show up with certain GPU drivers.
- Improved management of additional components (spice). The separation in the presentation of information in tabs with installed and available for download applets, desktops, themes and extensions has been removed. The different sections now use the same names, icons, and descriptions, making it easier to work with internationalization. In addition, additional information has been added, such as a list of authors and a unique package identifier. Work is underway to provide the ability to install third-party add-ons supplied in ZIP archives.
- Added new tools for checking and installing updates for additional components (spice). A command-line utility cinnamon-spice-updater is proposed that allows you to list available updates and apply them, as well as a Python module that provides similar functionality. The specified module made it possible to integrate the spice update functions into the regular Update Manager interface used to update the system (previously, to update the spices, it was necessary to call the configurator or a third-party applet). The update manager also supports automatic installation of updates for spices and packages in Flatpak format (updates are downloaded after the user logs in and Cinnamon restarts without disconnecting the session after installation). Work is underway to significantly modernize the update installation manager, carried out in order to force the distribution to be kept up to date.
- Added a new Bulky app for renaming a group of files in batch mode.
- In the Nemo file manager, the ability to search by the contents of files has been added, including combining search by content with search by file name. When searching, it is possible to use regular expressions and recursively enumerate directories.
- Designed for hybrid graphics systems that combine an integrated Intel GPU and a discrete NVIDIA card, the NVIDIA Prime applet adds support for systems equipped with an integrated AMD GPU and discrete NVIDIA cards.
- Improved the Warpinator utility for exchanging files between two computers on a local network using encryption during data transfer. Added the ability to select a network interface to determine through which network to provide files. Implemented compression settings. A mobile application has been prepared that allows you to exchange files with devices based on the Android platform.
Source: opennet.ru