14 DAY TRIAL // If you've been waiting to update your beloved Cinnamon desktop environment, we're happy to inform you today that the Cinnamon 3.4 stable series was released.
Cinnamon 3.4 is a massive release, that's why there's no official announcement published on Clement Lefebvre's blog at the moment of writing, but the full changelog is available along with the source tarball, and it has been attached at the end of the article.
Over 160 changes are currently included in Cinnamon 3.4.0, but, as usual, there will be a few bugfix releases published before it's ready to hit the stable channels of various GNU/Linux distributions, including Linux Mint. Talking about Linux Mint, the upcoming Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya" series is launching with Cinnamon 3.4.
Highlights of Cinnamon 3.4
For your reading pleasure, we've gathered some of the highlights of the Cinnamon 3.4 desktop environment, such as a cinnamon-stap-monitor utility, better panel intellihide when on vertical panels, as well as the ability to manage various of the systemd services that are present on the operating system.
A "Run now" button will be displayed when selecting a row in Cinnamon Settings' module for managing your startup applications, the applets that do not offer support for vertical panels will no longer be displayed, and there's now support for lightdm-settings in Cinnamon Settings to configure the LightDM login manager.
Support for the Arch Linux-based Manjaro operating system was added in System Info, a new Cinnamon Settings option allows users to control acceleration and sensitivity of their mice, and it appears that the Cinnamon desktop environment is now capable of adapting to the multi-process CSD (Client Side Decorations).
Critical notifications are now finally displayed while in full-screen, the panel launcher animation should now work properly, new mouse cursors are available for the Menu applet and panel launcher while dragging apps, and dozens of bugs were squashed. Again, check out the full changelog below for all the technical details.