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Xubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus)

DRAFT RELEASE NOTE

Xubuntu 17.04 will be supported for 9 months.

Some burble from devs about gtk3 apps we have new please and/or what's going on :) pleaseā€¦.

This release is based on the Linux release series 4.10. LibreOffice has been updated to 5.3.0.

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 progressbar lag ( 1667786)
  • Parole crashed while fast forwarding with the playback slider (1374887)
  • Parole Clear History (Open Location) crashes (1214541)
  • Parole Clear History (Open Recent) clears Global History (1681886)
  • Label missing from indicator-plugin clear option (1644971)
  • SGT Launcher - menu bar greyed out (1670610)

Changes and bug fixes

  • Thunar 1.6.11
    • Fixes to various crashes while renaming,copying bugs
  • xubuntu-default-settings
    • New file templates included - OpenDocument Writer, OpenDocument Spreadsheet
  • xfce4-taskmanager
    • New release includes ability to click on window to select process
  • xfce4-notifyd
    • New release includes persistence support.
  • sgt-launcher
    • New launcher for Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

Changelogs

Changes post-16.10 release

Major application versions

Other Application Versions