FILES DOWNLOAD

Xubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Beta 1

• The display dialog has been updated, multiple dispays can now be arranged by drag and drop;
• The power manager can now control the keyboard-backlight and features a new panel plugin, which shows the battery’s status, other connected devices with batteries and controls the display’s backlight brightness;
• Xubuntu minimal install available – information on installation and testing will follow shortly;
• Inxi, a tool to gather system information, is now included by default;
• To allow users to use pkexec for selected applications instead of gksu(do), appropriate profiles are now included for Thunar and Mousepad;
• The display dialog has been updated, multiple dispays can now be arranged by drag and drop;
• The themes now support Gtk3.12;
• The alt-tab dialog can now be clicked with the mouse to select a window;
• Setting-related menu items earlier available only under Settings manager are now shown and searchable in Whiskermenu;
• Presentation mode in Xfce4 power manager is now working;
• apt-offline should work now;
• Updated packages: Catfish 1.2.1, Xfwm4 4.11.2, xfdesktop 4.11.7, xfce4-panel 4.11.1, lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.9.0, xfce4-appfinder 4.11.0, xfce4-notifyd 0.2.4, xfce4-settings 4.11.3, xfce4-power-manager 1.3.2, Whisker Menu 1.4.0, Light Locker Settings 1.4.0, Menulibre 2.0.5 and Mugshot 0.2.4;
• XChat was removed from the default installation.

Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Beta 1

• Includes GNOME Shell 3.12 by default;
• GNOME Weather and GNOME Maps are installed by default.

Kubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Beta 1

Kubuntu 14.10 beta 1 - Plasma 4 ISO

Kubuntu 14.10 beta 1 - Plasma 5 ISO

• Two new ISOs are available for download: Plasma 4 Stable and Plasma 5 tech Preview (64bit only for now);
• The Stable Plasma 4 ISO includes KDE Applications and Platform 4.14

Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Beta 1

Ubuntu Kylin 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Beta 1

• Ubuntu Kylin Software Center updated to 0.3.3;
• Sogou IM updated to 1.1.0;
• Wiznote updated to version 2.1.12;
• "Some interesting new features are still under development".

Ubuntu MATE 14.10 Beta 1

• Added community contributed wallpapers, Plymouth theme, SYSLINUX theme and Ubiquity slides;
• Added Ambiant-MATE and Radiant-MATE desktop and icon themes;
• Added Ubuntu MATE LightDM theme;
• Updated the default Qt4 style to match the Ambiant-MATE theme;
• Added OpenDyslexic a font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia;
• Added a screen magnifier for indiviuals with low vision;
• Added patent-free S3TC compatible implementation that provides texture compression to Mesa;
• Added service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite;
• Added colord to manage, install and generate accurate colour profiles;
• Added ntp time synchronisation daemon;
• Added policykit-desktop-privileges which fixes, among other things, auto mounting of disks without requiring a password;
• Added a PAM module that will automatically unlock the keyrings using your login password, making gnome-keyring usage transparent without losing its security benefits;
• Added GVFS backend (FTP, SSH, WebDAV, Samba) to Déjà Dup;
• Added GStreamer backend to LibreOffice;
• Fixed installation failures when there is no active Internet connection;
• Fixed hiding the im-config icon from MATE;
• Improved support for 3G/4G USB dongles, iPod and MTP devices, on-demand codec installation and hardware detection and support;
• Updated the language packs in the Live CD based on the Top 10 countries that visit https://ubuntu-mate.org;
• Removed ffmpegthumbnailer, light-themes and ubuntu-artwork.

Kubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf Beta 1

• a new Audio Volume applet that works directly with PulseAudio;
• a new fullscreen Application Dashboard alternative launcher;
• over 1400 new icons;
• KRunner now remembers your previous searches;
• the Networks applet is now able to display network traffic graphs;
• much improved high DPI support;
• smaller memory footprint;
• a new, much faster desktop search backend;
• new additions to the KDE Frameworks 5-based applications list, including Dolphin, the Kontact Suite, Ark, Picmi and more.

Xubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf Beta 1

• LibreOffice Calc and Writer have replaced Gnumeric and Abiword;
• a new theme for LibreOffice, libreoffice-style-elementary, is now installed by default;
• updated packages:
• xfdesktop4 4.12.2 (changes since 4.12.0, available in Vivid):
• reinitialize background when reloading desktop;
• monitor the wallpaper file for changes;
• add a xfconf settings to center the text on xfdesktop icons;
• allow dragging desktop launchers to the panel;
• preserve order when moving multiple icons;
• Thunar 1.6.10 (changes since 1.6.6, available in Vivid):
• new tabs and windows inherit the history of the origin view;
• history is preserved across view changes;
• remember the last used application when opening files;
• Catfish 1.3.0:
• the toolbar has been replaced with a Gtk HeaderBar;
• the sidebar has been cleaned up and now clearly indicates selected options;
• the file type and modification date dialogs were replaced with Popover widgets;
• Gmusicbrowser 1.1.14:
• added support for Gstreamer 1.x;
• added an Equalizer Preset widget to change presets;
• WhiskerMenu 1.5.0:
• added a profile picture and command which allows editing it via Mugshot;
• added option to set background opacity;
• customizable limit for recently used;
• many other Xfce components were updated with mostly bug fixes - this includes Xfce Power Manager, Xfce Weather Plugin, Xfburn and more.

Ubuntu MATE 15.10 Wily Werewolf Beta 1

• MATE 1.10 changes:
• Caja now has an extension manager so plugins can be enabled/disabled at run-time;
  improved multi-monitor support;
  libmatemixer, an audio mixer library for MATE desktop, has been introduced with MATE 1.10;
  CSD and pop-over support;
• Mate Welcome was updated with various UI improvements, software categories and new applications on the Software page such as AppGrid, Chromium, Disks, Hardinfo, SpiderOakONE, Ubuntu Software Center (which as you probably know, is no longer installed by default in Ubuntu 
• MATE 15.10) and VeraCrypt;
• MATE Tweak has gained support for two new panel layouts: Fedora and Mageia;
• Deja Dup is now integrated with Caja.

Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 Wily Werewolf Beta 1

• GNOME 3.16 includes some important changes, like:
• a new notification system which has replaced the old Message Tray. The notification history can now be accessed from the date/time menu (Top Bar);
• legacy "tray" icons are now displayed in a "drawer" that used autohide at the bottom left corner of the screen;
• the Activities Overview, login/lock screen, system menus and others have received an updated design (including monochrome icons for the applications menu);
• improved scrollbars, which are now only displayed when needed;
• Redesigned GNOME Image Viewer, which now uses header bars;
• many other changes - you can read all about it (including a video) HERE;
• GNOME Getting Started Guide is now included by default and runs on first login;
• Shotwell has been replaced with GNOME Photos;
• GNOME Music is now installed by default (Rhythmbox continues to be installed by default as well).

GNOME Photos

New GTK 3.6 scrollbars

GNOME Image Viewer

Notification history / events and calendar

GNOME Music

Legacy tray icons

Lubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf Beta 1

Like the previous version, Lubuntu 15.10 Beta 1 ships with only bug fixes, as LXQt is still in development and not used by default yet.

Ubuntu Kylin 15.10 Wily Werewolf Beta 1

Xubuntu 14.10

• the display dialog has been updated and it now allows arranging multiple displays by drag and drop;
• the Xfce power manager can now control the keyboard-backlight and features a new panel plugin, which shows the battery status, other connected devices with batteries and controls the display backlight brightness;
• Setting-related menu items earlier available only under Settings manager are now shown and searchable in Whisker Menu;
• the alt-tab dialog can now be clicked with the mouse to select a window;
• updated GTK themes with various changes, including GTK 3.12 support;
• changed desktop icon size to 48px, desktop tooltip size to 64px;
• the number of desktops was reduced to 1 by default, but this can easily be changed (Settings > Workspaces);
• saner defaults for DPMS timeouts;
• enabled lock-screen on suspend and hibernate;
• Light Locker is enabled and will lock on suspend, but not auto-locking after being idle;
• to allow users to use pkexec instead of gksu(do), appropriate profiles are now included for Thunar and Mousepad;
• enabled clutter as default videosink in Parole;
• updated panel layout for login screen;
• enabled minimize and maximize on GtkHeaderbars;
• XChat is no longer included by default;
• Inxi, a tool to gather system information, is now included by default.

Added minimize and maximize buttons for apps using header bars

Inxi, a system info tool

Xfce4 Power Manager

New Xfce4 Power Manager panel plugin

Xubuntu 14.10 login screen (LightDM GTK greeter)

Display settings

Running Thunar via pkexec

Ubuntu GNOME 14.10

Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 includes GNOME System Settings / Settings Daemon 3.12

• many GNOME components, like GNOME Shell, GTK+, GNOME Control Center, etc. have been updated to version 3.12 which brings improvements (compared to 3.10, available in Ubuntu 14.04) such as:
• proper HiDPI support;
• improved network menus;
• Jumplists (also known as Quicklists in Unity) support;
• a geolocation indicator was added to the status menu
• refined animations;
• window previews are now keyboard navigable;
• allow specifying monitor for OSD;
• GNOME Online accounts has better Facebook and Google support and also, it now supports Pocket (a web service that lets you save videos, articles and pretty much anything from the browser for later use)
• Google Cloud print support;
• updated Adwaita GTK theme: new style for tabs and buttons, etc.;
• GTK 3.12 introduces restyled tabs and "popovers", an overlayed bubble interface element;
• for more information, see our GNOME 3.12 article (but keep in mind that some apps, like Nautilus, Totem or Gedit are still at version 3.10.x).
• GNOME Maps (3.12.2) and GNOME Weather (3.12.1) are now installed by default.

Lubuntu 14.10

Kubuntu 14.10

Kubuntu 14.10 with Plasma 5

Kubuntu 14.10 with Plasma 5

Kubuntu 14.10 with Plasma 5 (with Breeze window decorations - Oxygen is still default though)

Kubuntu 14.10 with Plasma 4