14 DAY TRIAL // Clement Lefebvre has published a new update of the beautiful, modern and responsive Cinnamon desktop environment, for the latest 3.2 stable series, of course, versioned 3.2.8.
It's been a little over two weeks since the Cinnamon 3.2 desktop environment received an update, and Cinnamon 3.2.8 is here to add many improvements to the Menu applet, which have all been contributed by Michael Webster. Among these, we can notice that the Menu applet is now capable of constructing only one context menu for recent files.
Of course, this context menu can be re-used for other files as required, and we can't help but notice that the Menu applet will no longer reconstruct recent files, just re-order, remove, or add them, if necessary. When refreshing the installed applications, the Menu applet won't be very destructive.
Minor memory leaks patched, users urged to update immediately
It looks like a couple of memory leaks have been patched in this update, also for the Menu applet, there are various small improvements to the Recent and Network applets, and a handful of minor fixes to the screensaver and tooltips. Other than that, Cinnamon 3.2 is now fully compatible with Python 3.6 thanks to this new update.
The entire changelog is attached below for those of you who are curious enough to know what's new in Cinnamon 3.2.8, but in the meantime, you should go ahead and install the new version from the stable software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution. It should be already available for Linux Mint 18.1 "Serena" users.
Cinnamon 3.2 is currently one of the most popular desktop environments for Linux-based operating systems, competing with the popular Budgie, MATE, and even the GNOME desktops. It's available for a wide range of distros and can be easily installed in Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuSE, and many others.