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
    

• Muffin 6.4.1
  • Monitor names are now displayed in settings

• Nemo 6.4.5
  • 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
    

• GNOME Terminal is installed instead of Alacritty
  

• The Yaru-Cinnamon theme continues with the new UI improvements
  • Thank you Initu Castilhos!
    

• The default background now comes in light and dark variants
  

• The popular command line tool neofetch has been replaced with fastfetch
  • 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.