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Ubuntu Cinnamon 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Release Notes

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.

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