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| Unity has had many bugs fixed and new features added. Locally integrated menus are now available for unfocussed windows. There have been a number of usibility improvements to the dash. | Unity has had many bugs fixed and new features added. Locally integrated menus are now available for unfocussed windows. There have been a number of usability improvements to the dash. |
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| * bugfixes (many, particulary edge cases in the new lockscreen) | |
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| * bugfixes (several) | |
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| Most of the Gnome platfirm is now based on version 3.14. | Most of the Gnome platform is now based on version 3.14. |
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| Pulse Audio is updated to version 6 paving the way for a move to Bluez5 next release. | Pulseaudio is updated to version 6 paving the way for a move to Bluez5 next release. |
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| LibreOffice 4.4 brings a lot of improvements including improved change tracking in Writer, improve mail merge perfomance, improved shapes which can now have fully formatted content with tables etc, more stastistics funtions in Calc, improved OpenGL support for slide transitions in Impress and Draw, password protected documents in Impress. Support for digital signed PDF exports has been added, as has support for connecting to Sharepoint and OneDrive. Many new multimedia formats are supported including .ra, .rm, .dv, .ac3, .opus, .asf, and .m4a. | LibreOffice 4.4 brings a lot of improvements including improved change tracking in Writer, improve mail merge performance, improved shapes which can now have fully formatted content with tables etc, more statistics functions in Calc, improved OpenGL support for slide transitions in Impress and Draw, password protected documents in Impress. Support for digital signed PDF exports has been added, as has support for connecting to Sharepoint and OneDrive. Many new multimedia formats are supported including .ra, .rm, .dv, .ac3, .opus, .asf, and .m4a. |
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| * Other new IDEs: IDEA (ultimate and community editions), pycharm (professional, educational and community editions), webstorm, rybymine, phpstorm and eclipse | * Other new IDEs: IDEA (ultimate and community editions), pycharm (professional, educational and community editions), webstorm, rubymine, phpstorm and eclipse |
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| We also rationalized 3rd party library managers so that they all behave the same and don't overwrite and/or mix with system librairies. Developers don't have to worry about messing up up their installation if they want to install a pipy, npm, rubygem libraries. | We also rationalized 3rd party library managers so that they all behave the same and don't overwrite and/or mix with system libraries. Developers don't have to worry about messing up up their installation if they want to install a pipy, npm, rubygem libraries. |
=Ubuntu Desktop Release Notes - Vivid Vervet - 15.04=
Ubuntu Desktop
The general theme for 15.04 on the desktop is one of bug fixes and incremental quality improvements as well as a more significant change in the move to systemd as an init system.
Unity
Unity has had many bugs fixed and new features added. Locally integrated menus are now available for unfocussed windows. There have been a number of usability improvements to the dash.
Unity 7.3
- A configuration option to have menus displayed at all times instead of only on mouseover.
- Enable the Dash, HUD, or logout dialogs over fullscreen windows.
- Tweaks to animations for faster startup and shutdown experiences.
Compiz 0.9.12
- Fixes for various problems that occur only with the nVidia proprietary driver (mostly blank or black windows) (thanks nVidia).
- Full integrated support for the MATE desktop on a par with Gnome2 and Unity
- Refresh of the gtk-window-decorator for Gnome2 support
General
Firefox is updated to version 36 and Chromium is updated to version 41.
Most of the Gnome platform is now based on version 3.14. Qt updated to version XX.
Pulseaudio is updated to version 6 paving the way for a move to Bluez5 next release.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice 4.4 brings a lot of improvements including improved change tracking in Writer, improve mail merge performance, improved shapes which can now have fully formatted content with tables etc, more statistics functions in Calc, improved OpenGL support for slide transitions in Impress and Draw, password protected documents in Impress. Support for digital signed PDF exports has been added, as has support for connecting to Sharepoint and OneDrive. Many new multimedia formats are supported including .ra, .rm, .dv, .ac3, .opus, .asf, and .m4a.
Full details here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4
Ubuntu Make (nee Developer Tools Centre)
Ubuntu Make continues to add support for new platforms, bringing the total to 15 (from 1 last release). This includes highlights such as:
- Android NDK support and bumped Android Studio to latest version
- Other new IDEs: IDEA (ultimate and community editions), pycharm (professional, educational and community editions), webstorm, rubymine, phpstorm and eclipse
- Golang compiler support
- Firefox developer edition
- Dartlang editor
- Stencyl game development platform
- Numerous usability improvements and accessibility (ppa, doc)
These new features are also available to LTS users.
We also rationalized 3rd party library managers so that they all behave the same and don't overwrite and/or mix with system libraries. Developers don't have to worry about messing up up their installation if they want to install a pipy, npm, rubygem libraries.
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