Linux Mint 22.3 will be called Xena. The first beta release of the update will be released soon.
Clement Lefebvre of the Linux Mint developer team wrote that Mint 22.3 will come with more improvements such as preventing file operations (e.g. copy, move) in the distro’s default file manager, Nemo. Snapshots can also be stopped in the Timeshift app. The Warpinator app, which is used to send and receive files, will get an option for text messages. Night Light, which is used to manage the screen’s color temperature, will get an always-on toggle. The update will also add template management, and provide notification indicators on a per-app panel basis.
In my previous coverage, I reported about the refreshed Cinnamon menu with symbolic category icons based on XApp symbolic icons (see screenshot below). Mint 22.3 will also come with a System Information tool, rebadged from System Reports. And it will add a system admin tool with some advanced options.
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Mint 22.3 will also improve Wayland-compatible keyboard/IM handling as well as the on-screen keyboard experience. That said, don’t expect any major upgrades to the Wayland session just yet. Mint 23, which may be released next year, may bring further improvements to Wayland, but in experimental form. Nothing is certain, so things are subject to change. In case you missed it, KDE has announced its plans to move to Wayland-only in the future. Fedora 43 already does this.
The current version of Mint is 22.2 Zara. Linux Mint Debian Edition 7, aka LMDE 7, was released last month. If you want to run Windows apps on Linux, check out my article about WinBoat.
The beta version of Linux Mint 22.3 will be released in the first half of this month. It is unclear whether the stable version of the update will be released before the end of the month, as originally planned.
