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

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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

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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

• (1361951) Installer crashes formatting partitions. Possible workaround can be found at post 39

Unconfirmed bug in keyboard layout was reported during Final testing (1508779)

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.