Xubuntu 15.10 released!

The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 15.10!

The release is available for download by torrents and direct downloads from http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/.

As the main server will be very busy in the first days after the release, we recommend using the Torrents wherever possible.

For support with the release, navigate to Help & Support for a complete list of methods to get help.

Highlights and Known Issues

Highlights

The 15.10 release has the following highlights:

  • Xfce4 Panel Switch for backup and restoration of panels. Included are 5 preset panel layouts.
  • LibreOffice Calc and Writer are now included. These applications replace Gnumeric and Abiword respectively.
  • A new theme for LibreOffice, libreoffice-style-elementary is also included and is default for Wily Werewolf.
  • Greybird accessibility icons for window manager.

Known Issues

gmusicbrowser is known to crash on close (Bug 1401609)

For a complete changelog between Xubuntu 15.04 and 15.10, including a list of new package versions, please refer to the Release Notes.

Thanks

Thanks go to all involved in getting Wily Werewolf from week 1 to week 26, not least those who tested for us during the milestones. In purely alphabetical order they are: akxwi-dave, bluesabre, dkessel, flexiondotorg, flocculant, irihapeti, jeremy9856, jjfrv8, mexchip, paulw2u, petter-c, phillw, skellat and slickymaster. In addition there were people who tested the daily images for us.