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Release Notes Wily Werewolf

New features, applications and packages

• Xfce4 Panel Switch for backup and restoration of panels. Included are 5 preset panel layouts.

• Greybird accessibility icons for window manager.

• 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.

Important bug fixes and enhancements

(1414443) Camera doesn't initialise

(1462445) Parole starts with blank screen

(1437180) Desktop Icons show on the install only desktop

(1388922) xdg-open doesn't properly detect Xfce/Xubuntu

(1395720) authentication in livesession accepts any value as password

New Major application versions

Changelogs for any package can be found at the Ubuntu Packages page. Some changelog links are provided below.

• catfish 1.2.2 > 1.3.3 changelog

• menulibre 2.0.6 > 2.1.2 changelog

• xfpanel-switch 1.0.3 changelog

• mugshot 0.2.5 > 0.3.0 changelog

• parole 0.8.0 > 0.8.1 changelog

• gmusicbrowser 1.1.13 > 1.1.14 changelog

• thunar 1.6.6 > 1.6.10 changelog

• xfdesktop4 4.12.4 changelog

• xfwm4 4.12.1 > 4.12.3 changelog

• xfce4-power-manager 1.4.3 > 1.4.4 changelog

• xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 1.4.3 > 1.5.0 changelog

• xubuntu-artwork 15.04.4 > 15.10.5

• xubuntu-default-settings 15.04.5 > 15.10.3 changelog

• xubuntu-docs 15.04.2 > 15.10.1

New application versions

• blueman 1.99 alpha1 > 2.0

• exo 0.10.4 > 0.10.7

• firefox 41.0

• gtk-theme-config 1.2 > 1.2.1

• gtk2-engines-xfce 3.0.1 > to 3.2.0

• lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.0 > 2.0.1

• lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings 1.1.0 > 1.2.0 changelog

• orage 4.10.0 > 4.12.1

• pavucontrol 2.0 > 3.0

• thunderbird 38.3.0

• xfburn 0.5.2 > 0.5.4

• xfce4-cpufreq-plugin 1.1.0 > 1.1.2

• xfce4-dict 0.7.0 > 0.7.1

• xfce4-eyes-plugin 4.4.3 > 4.4.4

• xfce4-notes-plugin 1.7.7 > 1.8.1

• xfce4-sensors-plugin 1.2.5 > 1.2.6

• xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin 0.4.5 > 0.4.6

• xfce4-time-out-plugin 1.0.1 > 1.0.2

• xfce4-verve-plugin 1.0.0 > 1.0.1

• xfce4-wavelan-plugin 0.5.11 > 0.5.12

• xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.5 > 0.8.6

• xubuntu-meta 2.190 > 2.197

Known issues

Installer Issues

Some issues have come up during testing installs.

(1488814) failed to boot from USB disk with error:Boot error. (During tests the gnome-disks tool was found to be the most reliable USB creation method.)

(1341944) 32-Bit UEFI bootloader support needed

General Issues

(1447038) 15.04: Shutdown/Restart of live session guest does not work in Virtualbox or VMWare

Xubuntu Specific Issues

(1401609) gmusicbrowser crashes on close

To see a list of known bugs in the common infrastructure, refer to the Ubuntu release notes.