Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” released!

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The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara”.

Linux Mint 22.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

New features:

This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements.

For an overview of the new features please visit:

“What’s new in Linux Mint 22.2“.

Important info:

The release notes provide important information about known issues, as well as explanations, workarounds and solutions.

To read the release notes, please visit:

“Release Notes for Linux Mint 22.2”

System requirements:

  • 2GB RAM (4GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
  • 20GB of disk space (100GB recommended).
  • 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).

Upgrade instructions:

  • If you are running the BETA you don’t need to upgrade, use the Update Manager to apply available updates.
  • Upgrade instructions for Linux Mint 22 and 22.1: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4882

Download links:

Cinnamon Edition:

Xfce Edition:

MATE Edition:

Integrity and authenticity checks:

Once you have downloaded an image, please verify its integrity and authenticity.

Anyone can produce fake ISO images, it is your responsibility to check you are downloading the official ones.

Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Thank you for using Linux Mint and have a lot of fun with this new release!

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  3. Thank you for the release!

    1) Some text on the release notes webpage seems garbled: the page has, ‘To prepare for the future and potentially write applications “in libAdwaita”. The library was forked into a new XApp library called libAdapta.’ Should the full-stop be a comma?

    2) I was surprised that the Update Manager offered an upgrade to the new OS before the release announcement was made. But perhaps that – slightly confounding state of affairs – has always been the case.

    2) As I have written elsewhere, archiving the beta repository when it has open issues is a bit bewildering.

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    1. Thanks for the feedback. We’ll get 1) fixed.

      It can take up to 2 days for mirrors worldwide to sync with the repositories. The latest mint-upgrade-info package needs to be available for your upgrade path to become available, so we usually delay the announcement by two days after everything is ready. Same thing with the release announcements (to allow for the ISOs to sync worldwide).

      The BETA phase lasts about 2 weeks but it ends as soon as the the team is happy with it and the ISOs get approved again through QA. At that stage the github issues repository gets archived to prevent new issues from being added to it. There’s always a delta though and issues added just before the archival. Such was the case here for issues 82, 84, 85, 86, 87 and 88.

      Issue 72 was noted and addressed post-QA but it can’t be closed since the repository is archived.

      This is just the way github issues work unfortunately. The only way to prevent the addition of new issues is to archive the repository, and once it’s archived we can’t comment/close/tag existing issues.

  6. @Clem + LM Team
    As always, totally reliable and simple upgrade 22.1->22.2. Everything works like charm 🙂
    Thanks … Well done!

    Just one question: In Driver Manger is now as “recommended” NVIDIA driver 550. Why not the latest available driver 575 (via Driver Manager)?

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  9. Hi Linux Mint Team,
    Congratulations on the new Linux Mint release, great job!

    I found a crash in the Nemo file manager (22.1 also contains the bug):
    — Open Nemo
    — Click on a folder with left mouse button
    — Properties
    — Click on the area containing the icon in the first tab
    — A window opens. Click the “Cancel” button immediately, before the system finishes loading the icons.
    — Result: Nemo crashes

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  10. @Clem and the Linux Mint Team

    Thank you for your work and the new features you’re adding. It’s a shame the new Mint menu design isn’t incorporated into this release. I remember a Mint team member indicating in the beta feedback that fingwit would be incorporated into the settings window in the final release. I checked, and that’s not the case. Could a future update fix this issue?

    Regards.

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  14. When trying to upgrade from 22.1 to 22.2 within the update manager, there are no vertical scrollbars on the upgrade screen and on one of my laptops the “next” buttons are off the screen, I have got round it with an external monitor, but please can scrollbars be added for the next time. Other than that a very smooth upgrade on that machine. Very many thanks to you and the team for your efforts

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  15. Following the upgrade, In document scanner, after scanning a document the rotate left. rotate right and delete icons are black, but the crop icon is very faint and looks like it is greyed out (though it does work).

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  17. Everything is going fluently, fast, net and beautiful. 6.16.3-061603-generic working great.

    Just two little things about Nemo. After having my complaints with it for showing partition entries I didn’t want to appear in the side navigation panel, I am not good at Linux, I found a solution (maybe there are more, easier and better). Using Gnome Disk Utility, select the entry, go to the options (gear icon), and edit the mount options. There, you can choose whether or not to display it in the user interface, and also whether to mount it at startup.

    Another thing in Nemo: when renaming files, go to Preferences > Behavior > Bulk Rename, and instead of using bulky, use thunar -B (you’ll need to install Thunar first). This way, you can also choose the Numbering mode to easily rename multiple files with sequential numbers.
    And the best part of this system: if you don’t want the names used in previous renaming sessions to appear again, locate the configuration file in Thunar called renamerrc (e.g., /home/user/.config/Thunar) and run the following command in the terminal: sudo chattr +i renamerrc
    If you ever want to revert this change, simply run: sudo chattr -i renamerrc
    I like Nemo more now.
    People must taste and enjoy this Linux Mint flavour. It’s superb.

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  19. When running timeshift under 22.2, the authentication box states “Authentication is needed to run ‘usr/bin/envDISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/home/nigel/.Xauthoritytimeshift-gtk’ as the super user” below the wording “Authentication required” , although it does work. In LM22.1 you do not see that message.

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