Cinnamon 6.4.8
Our 24.10 Oracular Oriole release used Cinnamon 6.0.4. The 25.04 Plucky Puffin release uses Cinnamon 6.4.8. Here is what’s new, aside from bug fixes, tweaks, and minor enhancements:
- Cinnamon 6.4.8
- The profile picture can now be displayed with the user applet
- The Cinnamon’s user interface has been modernized in general
- The power applet supports more devices and their labels
- Nightlight configuration in Display Settings
- The main menu is now controllable with the arrow keys on the numpad
- Cinnamon Control Center 6.4.1
- Cinnamon Screensaver 6.4.0
- The Lock Screen can now have delay increments of 5 and 10 seconds.
- Cinnamon Settings Daemon 6.4.2
- New audio device selection dialog
- CJS 6.40
- Uses mozjs115
- Uses mozjs115
- Muffin 6.4.1
- Monitor names are now displayed in settings
- Nemo 6.4.5
- Configuration for Actions in a new submenu
- Configuration for Actions in a new submenu
Thank you to all the Cinnamon desktop community and developers!
General
- Some extra, unnecessary packages were removed, most notably language packs. You only need to install the language pack of your choice. This decreases the image size a little.
- Thanks to: Fabio Fantoni, Jeremy Bicha
- Thanks to: Fabio Fantoni, Jeremy Bicha
- GNOME Terminal is installed instead of Alacritty
- The Yaru-Cinnamon theme continues with the new UI improvements
- Thank you Initu Castilhos!
- Thank you Initu Castilhos!
- The default background now comes in light and dark variants
- The popular command line tool
neofetch
has been replaced withfastfetch
- Thank you Simon Quigley!
Minimal Installations
- Minimal installations no longer have the following packages installed:
- Evince (document viewer)
- GNOME Disk Utility
- GNOME Font Viewer
- GNOME Photos
- Nemo Fileroller (archive manager) extension
- Synaptic package manager
For more technical details about Ubuntu Cinnamon underneath the hood, see the official Ubuntu 25.04 release notes.