Important updates for Linux Mint and Ubuntu

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In addition to the new kernel (5.4.0-109.123) Linux Mint (and maybe Ubuntu) is offering the new Ubuntu Version Updater, which will make it easier to upgrade to newer versions to come. It also offers new input device management and updates to bash, Firefox, Mint repository mirrors and Wrapper libraries. Check your update manager.

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Thanks. I’m not seeing the last 3 updates in your attachment yet. I’ve heard that Mint is going to offer the new updater to make it easier to go from Mint 20 to Mint 21 by using a GUI.

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Hope I’m not going too far off topic by asking this but my Linux Mint came with Thunderbird which I do not use.  On average I’d say I get an update in Update Manager for a newer, supposedly more secure version of Thunderbird every 2 months.  My question is this – do I need to keep updating Thunderbird when I don’t use it?  I do want to keep it just in case the day may come when I need it.

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If it was me and the day came when I did need it, I would want it to be ready to go. So I would keep it updated. (I don’t use it but I do install the updates, pretty much just ‘cuz. It only takes a minute or two and they’ve never messed up any thing else on my computers.)

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Charlie: This advice might not be equally good for everyone, but I installed TB months ago and never updated it. I dare not, considering how bad it does certain things, but that, even so, it also still limps along well enough for me. So I prefer not to change anything in case some catastrophe ensues. Currently I am still on (for Macs) version 78.14.0, while the current version is 91.8.1 . Now and then I read complaints from people who have updated TB, about the bad things that happened to them after the update.

Don’t want to think about that.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

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Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
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Charlie

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I have not had any issues with Thunderbird as far as malfunctions go. I didn’t like some of the visual changes, but they’re not deal-breakers for me. I am currently on Thunderbird 102.1 (Linux), and it is working fine here.

If you would like to hold back a bit and wait until a new version of a given piece of software has been out a while to let any bugs come to the surface, that’s perfectly fine (and is what the whole MS-DEFCON thing is about, of course), but once any pertinent bugs are fixed, you can let it update. Any important data that you’d hate to lose is hopefully backed up anyway…

 

 

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Okay thanks, I have been keeping it updated so I might as well keep doing so.

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