The Linux Mint 22 Beta is almost here as ISO testing gets underway
Quoting: The Linux Mint 22 Beta is almost here as ISO testing gets underway - Neowin —
In the past, Canonical would push out Ubuntu in April and October and Linux Mint releases would follow just a month later usually in May and November. However, the Linux Mint 22 cycle has been slower, likely due to the wait for Cinnamon 6.2 which got released recently; this is the primary desktop environment of Linux Mint.
According to the Linux Mint Community website’s ISO Images page, the Mint 22 Cinnamon edition ISO began testing 17 hours ago and is still being tested. Provided that this test passes, we should see a few other spins be tested and a couple of day later, the beta should be released. The beta testing will go on for a couple of weeks for bugs to be found be a final release is made available.
Linux Mint 22 is a new major version of Mint, the last version was 21.3 and based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS which is now two years old. Linux Mint 22 switches to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS as its base so should feature newer software packages. This version, along with the successive point releases every six months, will be supported for five years until 2029.
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Linux Mint 22 Beta Imminent as ISO Enters Testing - OMG! Ubuntu
As the Cinnamon 6.2 release indicated, the upcoming Linux Mint 22 release is getting mighty close. But before a stable release can be made, there has to be a beta.
Don’t get excited — a Linux Mint 22 Beta isn’t available to download, not yet!
But it seems a public beta isn’t too far away.
Yesterday, a Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon Edition ISO was added to Linux Mint ISO tracker. This is where internal testing of images takes place, and suggests a public beta release is on the way (though ISOs for the MATE and Xfce editions are yet to be added).