It will also be based on Ubuntu 20.04, teh team announced

Apr 1, 2020 06:09 GMT  ·  By

The next Linux Mint version will officially be called Ulyana, the Linux Mint team announced earlier today.

But the biggest change, however, is the migration to 64-bit exclusively, as beginning with this new release, Linux Mint officially drops 32-bit versions.

Going forward, Linux Mint will continue to be available in 64-bit only.

The new Linux Mint 20 will be based on Ubuntu 20.04, the team also revealed, and will land in three different versions, namely Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce.

Additionally, there is also important news for those currently running the latest version. LMDE will officially reach the end of support in July, which means that after this date, devices not yet upgraded to version 4 will no longer receive updates – of course, these systems will continue to run normally, but the lack of security updates and bug fixes make them more prone to issues and cyberattacks.

“LMDE 3 will reach EOL (End-Of-Life) on July 1st 2020. Past that date the repositories will continue to work but the release will no longer receive bug fixes and security updates from Linux Mint,” the Linux Mint team said.

More Linux Mint changes

The team also revealed some of the changes happening in Linux Mint, including improvements for the XappStatusIcon applets. Beginning with this new version, support will also be added for StatusNotifier, libAppIndicator, and libAyatana thanks to changes in Electron.

“XappStatusIcon applets gaining support for these technologies will guarantee better support for modern Electron apps and indicators and it will do so in all distributions, without the need to patch anything,” the Linux Mint developers explain.

Additionally, the team is also making good progress on the app to send files across the local network (which still doesn’t have a name), while two different colors, pink and aqua, have already been added to Mint-Y.