14 DAY TRIAL // Very early today, November 21, Clement Lefebvre and his team of hard working developers pushed a new medium-urgency maintenance release of the Cinnamon 2.8 desktop environment for Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" operating system.
We reported a few days ago on the immediate availability for download and testing of the Beta builds of the upcoming Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon and MATE editions, both of which including all sorts of under-the-hood improvements and the latest versions of the popular desktop environments, Cinnamon 2.8 and MATE 1.12, respectively.
Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon Edition shipped with Cinnamon 2.8.4, but today we're glad to inform you that the GNOME 3-based desktop environment has been updated to version 2.8.5, a release that updates the relevant workspace graph when removing or adding windows from/to a workspace and no longer ignores maximized windows in the graph in the Workspace Switcher applet.
Moreover, the Cinnamon 2.8.5 release is capable of handling scenarios when the /usr/lib64 path is a symlink to the /use/lib directory, which will no longer cause problems for certain GNU/Linux distributions. The missing flag icons have been added in the Keyboard applet, and the minimize sound now works when setting the minimize animation to "traditional."
Last but not least, the Sound applet has been updated and it will now also close the menu when the media player is closed, a typo in the signalManager.js file has been corrected, and a graphical glitch in the Menu applet, which occurred during searches, has been fixed. Cinnamon 2.8.5 is now available in the default software repositories of Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa."
For other GNU/Linux distributions, you can download the Cinnamon 2.8.5 sources right now from Softpedia and start compiling by hand. Below we've attached the internal changelog for reference.