Linux Mint version history

Linux Mint 19 "Tara", previous release with the MATE Desktop Environment

Linux Mint 18.3 "Sylvia", a stable release, with Xfce.

Up to 2014 there had been two Linux Mint releases per year, about one month after the Ubuntu releases they were based on. Each release was given a new version number and a code name, using a female first name starting with the letter whose alphabetical index corresponds to the version number and ending with the letter "a" (e.g., "Elyssa" for version 5, "Felicia" for version 6). There is also an OEM version for ease of installation for hardware manufacturers.^[1]

Releases are timed to be approximately one month after Ubuntu releases (which in turn are about one month after Gnome releases and two months after X Window System releases). Consequently, every Linux Mint release comes with an updated version of both GNOME and X and features some of the improvements brought in the latest Ubuntu release. Support for most releases is discontinued two months after the next release, but since the mid-2008 v5 every fourth release has been labelled a long-term support (LTS) version, indicating that it is supported (with updates) for longer, three years for v5 and v9, and five years thereafter.

Linux Mint 17 "Qiana" LTS was released on 31 May 2014, remaining current until the end of November 2014 and supported until April 2019.^[1] In mid-2014 the successor to 17 Qiana was announced to be 17.1 Rebecca; the development team said that from a technical point of view Linux Mint was no longer tied to the Ubuntu schedule, so it could be released at any time, although the six-month cycle provided rhythm, leading to a late November 2014 target.^[2] Linux Mint 17 LTS would be the first release of the 17.x series, and for two years applications would be backported to 17.x, with security updates until 2019.^[2]

The latest release is Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia", released on 18 December 2019. As an LTS release, it will be supported until 2023.^[3]

Linux Mint Debian Edition, not compatible with Ubuntu,^[4] is based on Debian and updates are brought in continuously.

Release history

Legend:	Old version	Older version, still supported	Current version	Latest preview version	Future release

Version	Codename	Edition	Codebase	Compatible repository	Default desktop environment	Release date	LTS?	Support End
Old version, no longer supported: 1.0	Ada	Main	Kubuntu 6.06	Kubuntu 6.06	KDE	27 August 2006	N/A	Unknown
Old version, no longer supported: 2.0	Barbara	Main	Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)	Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)	GNOME	13 November 2006		April 2008
Old version, no longer supported: 2.1	Bea	Main			GNOME	20 December 2006		April 2008
Old version, no longer supported: 2.2	Bianca	Main			GNOME	20 February 2007		April 2008
		Light			GNOME	29 March 2007
		KDE CE	Kubuntu 6.10	Kubuntu 6.10	KDE	20 April 2007
Old version, no longer supported: 3.0	Cassandra	Main	Bianca 2.2	Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)	GNOME	30 May 2007		October 2008
		Light		Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)	GNOME	15 June 2007
		KDE CE		Kubuntu 7.04	KDE	14 August 2007
		MiniKDE CE		Kubuntu 7.04	KDE	14 August 2007
		Xfce CE	Cassandra 3.0	Xubuntu 7.04	Xfce	7 August 2007
Old version, no longer supported: 3.1	Celena	Main	Bianca 2.2	Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)	GNOME	24 September 2007		October 2008
Old version, no longer supported: 3.1	Celena	Light	Bianca 2.2	Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)	GNOME	1 October 2007		October 2008
Old version, no longer supported: 4.0	Daryna	Main	Celena 3.1	Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)	GNOME	15 October 2007		April 2009
		Light	Celena 3.1	Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)	GNOME	15 October 2007
		KDE CE	Cassandra 3.0	Kubuntu 7.10	KDE	3 March 2008
Old version, no longer supported: 5	Elyssa	Main	Daryna 4.0	Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)	GNOME	8 June 2008	Yes	April 2011
		Light	Daryna 4.0		GNOME	8 June 2008
		x64	Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)		GNOME	18 October 2008
		KDE CE	Daryna 4.0	Kubuntu 8.04	KDE	15 September 2008
		Xfce CE	Daryna 4.0	Xubuntu 8.04	Xfce	8 September 2008
		Fluxbox CE	Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)	Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)	Fluxbox	21 October 2008
Old version, no longer supported: 6	Felicia	Main	Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)	Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)	GNOME	15 December 2008	No	April 2010
		Universal (Light)			GNOME	15 December 2008
		x64			GNOME	6 February 2009
		KDE CE	Elyssa 5	Kubuntu 8.10	KDE	8 April 2009
		Xfce CE	Xubuntu 8.10	Xubuntu 8.10	Xfce	24 February 2009
		Fluxbox CE	Xubuntu 8.10	Ubuntu 8.10	Fluxbox	7 April 2009
Old version, no longer supported: 7	Gloria	Main	Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)	Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)	GNOME	26 May 2009	No	October 2010
		Universal (Light)			GNOME	26 May 2009
		x64			GNOME	24 June 2009
		KDE CE	Kubuntu 9.04	Kubuntu 9.04	KDE	3 August 2009
		Xfce CE	Xubuntu 9.04	Xubuntu 9.04	Xfce	13 September 2009
Old version, no longer supported: 8	Helena	Main	Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)	Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)	GNOME	28 November 2009	No	April 2011
		Universal (Light)			GNOME	28 November 2009
		Gnome x64			GNOME	14 December 2009
		KDE	Kubuntu 9.10	Kubuntu 9.10	KDE	6 February 2010
		KDE x64	Kubuntu 9.10	Kubuntu 9.10	KDE	12 February 2010
		Fluxbox	Helena Main	Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)	Fluxbox	12 February 2010
		Xfce	Xubuntu 9.10	Xubuntu 9.10	Xfce	31 March 2010
		LXDE	Helena Main	Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)	LXDE	31 March 2010
Old version, no longer supported: 9	Isadora	Main	Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)	Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)	GNOME	18 May 2010	Yes	April 2013
		Gnome x64	Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)	Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)	GNOME	18 May 2010
		LXDE	Lubuntu 10.04	Lubuntu 10.04	LXDE	18 July 2010
		KDE	Kubuntu 10.04	Kubuntu 10.04	KDE	27 July 2010
		KDE x64	Kubuntu 10.04	Kubuntu 10.04	KDE	27 July 2010
		Xfce	Xubuntu 10.04	Xubuntu 10.04	Xfce	24 August 2010
		Fluxbox	Lubuntu 10.04	Lubuntu 10.04	Fluxbox	6 September 2010
Old version, no longer supported: 10	Julia	Main	Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)	Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)	GNOME	12 November 2010	No	April 2012
		Gnome x64	Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)	Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)	GNOME	12 November 2010
		KDE	Kubuntu 10.10	Kubuntu 10.10	KDE	23 February 2011
		KDE x64	Kubuntu 10.10	Kubuntu 10.10	KDE	23 February 2011
		LXDE	Lubuntu 10.10	Lubuntu 10.10	LXDE	16 March 2011
Old version, no longer supported: 11	Katya	Main	Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)	Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)	GNOME	26 May 2011	No	October 2012
		Gnome x64	Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)	Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)	GNOME	26 May 2011
		LXDE	Lubuntu 11.04	Lubuntu 11.04	LXDE	16 August 2011
Old version, no longer supported: 12	Lisa	Main	Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)	Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)	GNOME 3 with MGSE^{[lower-alpha 1]}	26 November 2011	No	April 2013
		KDE	Kubuntu 11.10	Kubuntu 11.10	KDE	2 February 2012
		LXDE	Lubuntu 11.10	Lubuntu 11.10	LXDE	9 March 2012
Old version, no longer supported: 13	Maya	Cinnamon	Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)	Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)	Cinnamon	23 May 2012	Yes	April 2017
		MATE	Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)	Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)	MATE	23 May 2012
		Xfce	Xubuntu 12.04	Xubuntu 12.04	Xfce	21 July 2012
		KDE	Kubuntu 12.04	Kubuntu 12.04	KDE	23 July 2012
Old version, no longer supported: 14	Nadia	Cinnamon	Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)	Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)	Cinnamon	20 November 2012	No	May 2014
		MATE	Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)	Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)	MATE	20 November 2012
		Xfce	Xubuntu 12.10	Xubuntu 12.10	Xfce	21 December 2012
		KDE	Kubuntu 12.10	Kubuntu 12.10	KDE	23 December 2012
Old version, no longer supported: 15	Olivia	Cinnamon	Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)	Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)	Cinnamon	29 May 2013^[5]	No	January 2014
		MATE			MATE	29 May 2013^[5]
		Xfce			Xfce	12 July 2013^[6]
		KDE			KDE	21 July 2013^[7]
Old version, no longer supported: 16	Petra	Cinnamon	Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)	Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)	Cinnamon	30 November 2013^[8]^[9]	No	July 2014
		MATE			MATE	30 November 2013^[8]^[9]
		Xfce			Xfce	22 December 2013
		KDE			KDE	22 December 2013
Old version, no longer supported: 17	Qiana	Cinnamon	Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)	Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)	Cinnamon	31 May 2014	Yes	April 2019
		MATE			MATE	31 May 2014
		KDE			KDE	23 June 2014
		Xfce			Xfce	26 June 2014
Old version, no longer supported: 17.1	Rebecca	Cinnamon			Cinnamon	29 November 2014^[2]
		MATE			MATE	29 November 2014^[2]
		KDE			KDE	8 January 2015
		Xfce			Xfce	11 January 2015
Old version, no longer supported: 17.2	Rafaela	Cinnamon			Cinnamon	30 June 2015
		MATE			MATE	30 June 2015
		KDE			KDE	7 August 2015
		Xfce			Xfce	7 August 2015
Old version, no longer supported: 17.3	Rosa	Cinnamon			Cinnamon	4 December 2015
		MATE			MATE	4 December 2015
		KDE			KDE	9 January 2016
		Xfce			Xfce	9 January 2016
Older version, yet still supported: 18	Sarah	Cinnamon	Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)	Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)	Cinnamon	30 June 2016	Yes	2021
		MATE			MATE	30 June 2016
		KDE			KDE	9 September 2016
		Xfce			Xfce	2 August 2016
Older version, yet still supported: 18.1	Serena	Cinnamon			Cinnamon	16 December 2016
		MATE			MATE	16 December 2016
		KDE			KDE	27 January 2017
		Xfce			Xfce	27 January 2017
Older version, yet still supported: 18.2	Sonya	Cinnamon			Cinnamon	2 July 2017
		MATE			MATE
		KDE			KDE
		Xfce			Xfce
Older version, yet still supported: 18.3	Sylvia	Cinnamon			Cinnamon	27 November 2017
		MATE			MATE	27 November 2017
		KDE			KDE	15 December 2017
		Xfce			Xfce	15 December 2017
Older version, yet still supported: 19	Tara^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]	Cinnamon	Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)	Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)	Cinnamon	29 June 2018	Yes	2023
		MATE			MATE
		Xfce			Xfce
Older version, yet still supported: 19.1	Tessa^[16]^[17]	Cinnamon			Cinnamon	19 December 2018^[18]
		MATE			MATE
		Xfce			Xfce
Older version, yet still supported: 19.2	Tina	Cinnamon			Cinnamon	2 August 2019
		MATE			MATE
		Xfce			Xfce
Current stable version: 19.3	Tricia	Cinnamon			Cinnamon	18 December 2019
		MATE			MATE
		Xfce			Xfce
Version	Codename	Edition	Codebase	Compatible repository	Default desktop environment	Release date	LTS?	Support End

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Version history of common programs

These are the versions with Linux Mint as released. In use, the Linux Mint update manager will offer to update programs to the latest supported version.

Release	Linux kernel^[19]	Cinnamon	GNOME^[20]	Firefox^[21]	OpenOffice^[22]/ LibreOffice^[23]	GIMP^[24]	Pidgin^[25]	MySQL^[26]^[27]	PHP^[28]^[29]	Python^[30]	X.Org Server^[31]	X Window System^[32]
1.0	2.6.15	N/A	2.14	1.5.3	2.0.2	2.2.11	1.5.0	5.0.22	5.1.2	2.4.3	1.0.2	7.0.0
2.x	2.6.17	N/A	2.16	2.0.0	2.0.4	2.2.13	2.0b3	5.0.24	5.1	2.4.4	1.1.1	7.1.1
3.x	2.6.20	N/A	2.18	2.0.3	2.2.0	2.2.13	2.0b6	5.0.38	5.2	2.5.1	1.2.0	7.2.0
4.0	2.6.22	N/A	2.20	2.0.6	2.3.0	2.4.0rc3	2.2.1	5.0.45	5.2.3	2.5.1	1.3.0	7.2.5
5 LTS	2.6.24	N/A	2.22	3.0b5	2.4.0	2.4.5	2.4.1	5.0.51	5.2.4^{[lower-alpha 2]}	2.5.2	1.4.1	7.3
6	2.6.27	N/A	2.24	3.0.3	2.4.1	2.6.1	2.5.2	5.0.67	5.2.6^{[lower-alpha 2]}	2.5.2	1.5.2	7.4
7	2.6.28	N/A	2.26	3.0.8	3.0.1	2.6.6	2.5.5	5.1.31	5.2.6^{[lower-alpha 2]}	2.6.2	1.6.0
8	2.6.31	N/A	2.28	3.5.3	3.1.1	2.6.7	2.6.2	5.1.37	5.2.10^{[lower-alpha 2]}	2.6.3	1.6.4
9 LTS	2.6.32	N/A	2.30	3.6.3	3.2.0	2.6.8	2.6.6	5.1.41	5.3.2^{[lower-alpha 2]}	2.6.5	1.7.6	7.5
10	2.6.35	N/A	2.32	3.6.10	3.2.1	2.6.10	2.7.3	5.1.43	5.3.3^{[lower-alpha 2]}	2.6.6	1.9.0	7.5
11	2.6.38	N/A	2.32	4.0.1	3.3.2	2.6.11	2.7.11	5.1.57	5.3.6^{[lower-alpha 2]}	2.7.1	1.10.1	7.6
12	3.0.0	N/A	3.2	7.0.1	3.4.3	2.6.11	2.10.0	N/A	N/A	2.7.2	1.10.4
13 LTS	3.2.14	1.4	3.4.1	12.0	3.5.2	2.6.12	2.10.3	N/A	N/A	2.7.3	1.11.4
14	3.5.5	1.6	3.6.0	16.0	3.5.4.2	2.8.0	2.10.6	N/A	N/A	2.7.3	1.13.0
15	3.8	1.8	N/A	20.0	4.0.2	2.8.4	N/A	N/A	N/A	2.7.4	1.13.3	Unknown
16	3.11	2.0	N/A	24	4.1.2	2.8.6	N/A	N/A	N/A	2.7.5	1.14.3	Unknown
17 LTS	3.13	2.2	N/A	28	4.2.3rc3	2.8.10	2.10.9	N/A	N/A	2.7.6 / 3.4.0	1.15.1	7.7
17.1 LTS	3.13	2.4	N/A	33	4.2.6			N/A	N/A
17.2 LTS	3.16	2.6	N/A	38	4.4.3rc2			N/A	N/A
17.3 LTS	3.19	2.8	N/A	42	5.0.3rc2			N/A	N/A		1.17.1^[33]
18 LTS	4.4	3.0	N/A	47	5.1.2	2.8.16	2.10.12	N/A	N/A	2.7.11 / 3.5.1	1.18.3
18.1 LTS	4.4	3.2	N/A	50	5.1.4			N/A	N/A	2.7.12 / 3.5.1	1.18.4
18.2 LTS	4.8	3.4	N/A	54	5.1.6rc2			N/A	N/A
18.3 LTS	4.10	3.6	N/A	57	5.1.6rc2			N/A	N/A
19 LTS	4.15.0-20^[11]	3.8^[11]	N/A	60.0.2	6.0.3.2	2.8.20	2.12.0	N/A	N/A	2.7.15rc1 / 3.6.5	1.19.6^[34]	11.0^[35]
19.1 LTS	4.15.0-20	4.0	N/A	64.0	6.0.6	2.8.22	?	N/A	N/A	2.7.15rc1 / 3.6.7	1.19.6
19.2 LTS	4.15	4.2	3.28.4	70	6.0.7.3	2.10.12	2.12.0	N/A	N/A	TBA
19.3 LTS								N/A	N/A	TBA
Release	Linux kernel	Cinnamon	GNOME	Firefox	OpenOffice / LibreOffice	GIMP	Pidgin	MySQL	PHP	Python	X.Org Server	X Window System

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Gallery

Linux Mint 1.0 Ada.jpg

Linux Mint 1.0 (Ada)
Bianca file browser.png

Linux Mint 2.2 (Bianca)
Linux-Mint-3.1-Celena.png

Linux Mint 3.1 (Celena)
Daryna.png

Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna)
Mint-KDE-5-0.png

Linux Mint 5.0 (Elyssa) with KDE 3
Linuxmint6.felicia.desktop.2.png

Linux Mint 6 (Felicia) with GNOME 2
Linux Mint 7 Gloria GNOME.png

Linux Mint 7 (Gloria)
Linux-Mint-Helena.png

Linux Mint 8.0 (Helena)
Linux-Mint-Isadora.png

Linux Mint 9.0 (Isadora)
Linux-Mint-Julia.png

Linux Mint 10 (Julia) with GNOME
Julia.png

Linux Mint 10 (Julia) with KDE 4
Julia LXDE.png

Julia with LXDE
Mint Katya.png

Linux Mint 11 (Katya) with LXDE
Linux Mint Katya.png

Linux Mint 11 (Katya) GNOME
Linux Mint 12.png

Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) with GNOME 3
Linux-Mint-Lisa-Xfce.png

Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) with Xfce
Lisa mate.png

Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) with MATE, showing Caja and the MintMenu
LinuxMint 13 Menú.png

Linux Mint 13 (Maya) with the MATE desktop environment
Linux Mint 13 with Cinnamon
Linux Mint 14 (Nadia) with Cinnamon
Nadia KDE.jpg

Linux Mint 14 (Nadia) with KDE
Linux Mint 19 "Tara" (Cinnamon).png

Linux Mint 19 "Tara" (Cinnamon)
Linux Mint 19.1 "Tessa" (Cinnamon).png

Linux Mint 19.1 "Tessa" (Cinnamon)
TinaCinnamon.png

Linux Mint 19.2 Tina with Cinnamon

References

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External links

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↑ The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" Xfce released! Written by Clem on 12 July 2013
↑ The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" KDE released! Written by Clem on 21 July 2013.
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