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Xubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus)
DRAFT RELEASE NOTE
Xubuntu 17.04 will be supported for 9 months.
Several Xfce panel plugins and applications have been ported to GTK+ 3, paving the way for improved theming and further development. Core Xfce libraries exo and libxfce4ui have also been updated with full GTK+ 3 support, the latter adding support for Glade development in Xubuntu with the installation of libxfce4ui-glade. The Greybird and Numix themes have also been refreshed with improved support for the toolkit.
Camera functionality has been restored in Mugshot, Parole introduced a new mini mode and improvements for network streams, and a number of welcome fixes have made their way into Thunar and Ristretto. Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection (sgt-puzzles), an addicting collection of logic games, has been included along with the new SGT Puzzles Collection (sgt-launcher).
This release is based on the 4.10.x Linux release series. LibreOffice 5.3 includes a number of fixes and introduces new experimental interface options. Firefox 52 and Thunderbird 45 are included.
For new installs a swap file will be used instead of a swap partition.
See the main Ubuntu Release Note for more general issues and updates.
Notable Issues
Installer Issues
- System encryption password set before setting keyboard locale (1047384)
General Issues
- Parole Media Player
- Thunar File Manager
- Thunar occasionally doesn't refresh window (13364)
Changes and Bug Fixes
- thunar
- Fixes to various issues related to copying and renaming
- parole
- New release includes “mini mode” and improved streaming support
- xfce4-notifyd
- New release includes “do not disturb” mode, notification muting, persistence support
- xfce4-taskmanager
- New release includes ability to click on window to select process
- xubuntu-default-settings
- New file templates included - OpenDocument Writer, OpenDocument Spreadsheet
- Improved QT5 application appearance (requires installation of
qt5-style-plugins
)
- sgt-launcher
- New launcher for Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
Changelogs
Changes post-16.10 release
- exo (changelog)
- lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings (changelog)
- mugshot (changelog)
- orage (changelog)
- parole (changelog)
- thunar (changelog)
- xfce4-dict (changelog)
- xfce4-weather-plugin (changelog)
- xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin (changelog)
- xfdesktop4 (changelog)
- xfwm4 (changelog)
- xubuntu-artwork (changelog)
- xubuntu-default-settings (changelog)
- xubuntu-docs (changelog)
- xubuntu-meta (changelog)
Major application versions
Other Application Versions
- blueman (changelog)
- gtk-theme-config (changelog)
- gtk2-engines-xfce (changelog)
- lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings (changelog)
- lightdm-gtk-greeter (changelog)
- orage (changelog)
- pavucontrol (changelog)
- xfburn (changelog)
- xfce4-cpugraph-plugin (changelog)
- xfce4-dict (changelog)
- xfce4-notes-plugin (changelog)
- xfce4-weather-plugin (changelog)