Ubermix Changelog

There are two branches for ubermix, 2.x and 3.x, which correspond with Ubuntu's regular and "Long Term Support" (LTS) releases. In general, for most applications we recommend using the most recent release available.

ubermix 4.x:

ubermix 3.x:

Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) - Updates through April 2023 Please note: All non-kernel updates will automatically apply through the normal update process, so unless you are in need of updated hardware support, a download and install should never be necessary. 4.03 (July 2018) Minor firmware updates Added mypaint Updated kernel Fixed editing of images in Shutter screen capture 4.02 (May 2018) Updated tuxpint default save location Installed osk blocker to prevent appearnce on touchscreen devices (cuz it stinks) - use onboard instead Touch setup simplification Updated kernel 4.01 (May 2018) Added vym and labyrinth back in (oops - forgot those two) 4.00 (May 2018) Initial release

Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) - Updates through May 2019 3.33 (December 2017) Updated to Cinnamon 3.6 Updated kernel Updated touch setup to better handle new Cinnamon env Fixed auto-reset "restore_home" option Applied latest upstream updates 3.32 (October 2017) LTS update to upstream 16.04.3. Kernel and xserver updates. Improved support for touchscreen devices. 3.23 (July 2017) Cinnamon update to 3.4 Reworked displays applet to properly rotate touchpad/touchscreen on display rotate. Reworked systray applet to auto scale icons all the time. Added scripts to enable touch UI scaling/themes/on-screen keyboard for convertible/touch devices. Added a custom small keyboard for onboard that makes more sense for small laptops. Updated Scribus to 1.5.3 Updated Inkscape to 0.92 Major kernel update on key and image to handle newer EMMC hardware. Added on-screen caps-lock indicator. Upstream updates. 3.22 (April 2017) Fixed a bug in the locale settings control panel app that prevented it from completing a locale switch. Made the automount folder cleanup at startup safer (see here for details) Applied latest upstream updates, including slight kernel bump. 3.21 (March 2017) Minor kernel update. Shaved several seconds off of boot time. Added firmware for latest Kaby Lake CPUs. Applied latest upstream updates. 3.20 (02/13/17) Updated to latest LTS release, including new kernel (4.8.x) and graphics subsystem (xorg). Applied latest upstream updates. 3.12 (12/20/16) Update to Cinnamon 3.2. Updated Arc themes to new Cinnamon specs. Updated to latest 4.4 kernel. Updated bootloader packages. Applied latest upstream updates. 3.11 (10/02/16) Updated sudoers to better support snapd. Add hold on grub_efi packages after install for better update mgmt. Added smbclient for better windows printing. Added browser-check back, by popular demand. Major kernel/drivers update. Updated Intel wireless firmware. Fixed nemo (file manager) theme issue. Applied latest upstream updates. 3.10 (7/20/16) Fixed myriad errors with ArduinoIDE compilation and USB comms. Put hold on all grub packages. Updated bluetooth status icon sizes to better match existing icons. Applied latest upstream updates (point release). Kernel update. Cleaned up bootloader config files. Updated key properly calculate blockcount for custom images. 3.03 (7/10/16) Install key: Properly offer backup option when disk structure is incompatible with install image. Install key: Reduced load time. Updated kernel. Applied upstream updates. 3.02 (6/20/16: automatic update - no need to download/reinstall) Added icedtea-plugin for java applets in Firefox. Added a backup option to the install key that will use free space on the IMAGE partition to backup existing files on a clean install if enough space is available. Updated audacity default tmp dir. Moved tuxpaint save dir to Pictures, so it is easy to find. 3.01 (6/14/16) Added additional lvm tools. Updated reset to remove spurious error messages.. Fixed startup slowdown on first boot/reset.. 3.0 (June) Auto fix google repos which STILL update to include i386 and generate errors (c'mon google, get it together). Re-added auto update script. Removed browser-check, since it is no longer necessary. Added lvm to the default initramfs. New kernel. 3.0rc1 Added exfat support. Fixed some icons not appearing in dock. Clean up apt cache at startup. Fixed browser-check firefox updates. Moved Plank (dock) settings to cinnamon system settings panel. Fixed incrontab table typo. Updated default user space size to 8Gb, to accommodate updates. 3.0alpha8 Added back power statistics and system monitor. Added browser-check. Enabled source repos by default. 3.0alpha7 Updated bluetooth icon that always appeared to be off. Removed vbox client X11 modules. Dropped Openshot as both new and old vers are just too buggy. Added PiTiVi to replace Openshot. 3.0alpha6 (2016-05-19) Released to testers.