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 /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.
During the Wily Werewolf development cycle, the Xubuntu Marketing team has completed work on flyers that can now be printed by anyone wishing to promote Xubuntu at conferences, global jams, release parties and other events.
Flyers can be printed at home or with any typical printing service. A successful trial run of 25 US letter-sized flyers was completed in August by our marketing lead:
Find the links to the flyer as well as all translated versions on the Products page.
Licensed CC-BY-SA, you are welcome to freely remix, transform, and build upon the material under the terms of that license. Source (SVG files, editable in Inkscape) are available in the Xubuntu marketing code repository.
Please note that while you are free to make your own version, we encourage you to contribute back to the official flyer so we can improve it for everybody! If you want to get involved with the next revision of the flyer, join #xubuntu-devel on Freenode or the Xubuntu Development mailing list and let us know your thoughts!
If you are interested in translating the flyer, be in touch with us as well; we will help you with potential issues with the layouting and more and can promote the translated version on the website.
Xfce4 Panel Switch added, giving the ability to backup and restore existing panel layout. In addition 5 preset panel layouts are available
A new window manager theme, greybird accessibility is now available
Known Issues
Some issues during testing of image were found, in addition some bugs related to Xubuntu have been noted during the development cycle. Full detail of all of these can be found in the release notes at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta2/Xubuntu
The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 15.10 Beta 1. This is the first beta towards the final release in October.
The first beta release also marks the end of the period to land new features in the form of Ubuntu Feature Freeze. This means any new updates to packages should be bug fixes only, the Xubuntu team is committed to fixing as many of the bugs as possible before the final release.
LibreOffice Calc and Writer and 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.
Known Issues
Some issues during testing of image were found, in addition some bugs related to Xubuntu have been noted during the development cycle. Full detail of all of these can be found in the release notes at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta1/Xubuntu
Many users or members of the community will know this already, but just for the sake of clarity: Xubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf will be the first release to ship LibreOffice by default. This has been a long-standing and often-repeated request so we decided to try and evaluate this on our way to the next LTS release, which will be 16.04.
Consequently, we started evaluating LibreOffice’s integration in our Desktop Environment. While there is already a package which provides integration with the Gtk+ theme (libreoffice-gtk), we found that none of the existing icon themes really worked too well with Xubuntu’s default theme elementary-xfce. Ubuntu’s human theme – being the closest match because of having elementary on its base – has been abandoned a longer while ago and looks a bit dated (and frankly too orange for Xubuntu). Other options like Tango work quite well with our color scheme, but still aren’t a perfect match.
So our artwork team went ahead and started working on the most prominent icons in LibreOffice Writer and Calc – the two applications shipped by default. The majority of those icons has been either ported or re-done with elementary in mind. Furthermore, over the course of the last months several icons specific to LibreOffice Impress have been tackled. The preliminary results are available for testing already and the final result will be shipped with the release of Xubuntu 15.10. We’re also working with the LibreOffice team to get the new icon theme integrated upstream, so more distributions and users can benefit from our work.
Contribute
If you want to contribute, feel free to get in touch with Simon, our Artwork Lead, or clone the repository and submit your merge requests directly on GitHub (link below).
