After six months of development formed Release of the user environment Cinnamon 5.0 , in which the Linux Mint Distribution Community develops the GNOME Shell fork, the Nautilus file manager and the Mutter window manager, aimed at providing environment in the classic GNOME 2 style with support for successful elements Interactions from GNOME Shell. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these components are supplied as periodically synchronized fork, not related to external dependencies with GNOME.
Changing version number on 5.0 is not associated with some particularly important changes, but only continues the tradition of the use of active decimal digits for the numbering of stable versions (4.6, 4.8, 5.0, etc.). The new issue of Cinnamon will be offered in the Linux Mint 20.2 distribution, which is planned to be released in mid-June.
- is provided with settings to determine the maximum allowable memory consumption components of the desktop and the setting of the interval to check the memory status. When a given limit is exceeded, CINNAMON background processes are automatically restarted without a session loss and saving open application windows. The proposed opportunity has become a workaround to solve problems with difficult to diagnose memory leaks, for example, manifested only with defined GPU drivers.
- Improved management Additional components (spice). Removed separation in the viewing of information in tabs with installed and accessible to the loading applets, descelet, themes and extensions. In different sections, the same names, pictograms and descriptions are now used, which simplified internationalization work. In addition, added additional information, such as a list of authors and a unique package identifier. Work is underway to provide the possibility of installing third-party add-ons supplied in the ZIP archives.
