Version

Plymouth customisations

utilizing the Ubiquity installer

reworking packages to remove the "budgie-remix" identities and replaced with the updated "Ubuntu Budgie" identity.

New Features and Enhancements

budgie-desktop upgraded to v10.2.9 from v10.2.7

a first login welcome screen to help you get up and running with items such as: install drivers perform updates install complex ibus language support web browser ballot - one click install/uninstall of additional browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Vivaldi, etc. Full theme change support is now available. You can switch the entire interface (fonts, wallpaper, theme, cursors) to material based design themes (Adapta or Vimix) or the Arc theme style (default)

a backports repository is now optionally available via budgie-welcome with additional packages such as: skippy-xd (Expose-Like Window selector) the latest budgie-screenshot panel applet allowing you to grab screenshots (optionally send to Imgur) 17.04 compatible Paper GTK Theme, Paper icon and cursor themes (Coming Soon) v10.3 of the budgie-desktop

application indicator support (default - respects the panel system theme or custom themes)

panel applet to control the volume (default)

panel applet to navigate to file system places (default)

OSD (On Screen Display) of volume changes

drag-and-drop reordering of the icon-tasklist applet

ibus support

keyboard switching applet

Plank now defaults to a predefined set of applications rather than a random set of apps

QT Apps now inherit the currently applied GTK theme

additional languages are now available for installation via the Settings application including improved font support for our Chinese & Japanese community

existing applications such as Eye-of-GNOME (eog) and Evince have better support in non-Unity based desktops

integrated the latest GNOME mutter window manager (difficult due to debugging and fixing crash issues)

Added the following GNOME applications: GNOME disk usage Analyser GNOME characters GNOME contacts GNOME documents GNOME font-viewer GNOME log-viewer GNOME maps GNOME weather GNOME color manager GNOME accessibility support

GTK+3.22 Arc-theme support

Latest Moka-icon-theme (5.3.5)

new wallpapers thank you to all wallpaper contest contributors! our winners are credited in the Settings application ( settings --> background ) two additional wallpapers have been added by team members

additional theming changes, bug-fixes and translation updates

Compatibility Changes

replaced GNOME Terminal with Terminix

dropped LibreOffice Base from the ISO image

changed the default browser to Chromium from Firefox

changed the default video player to GNOME MPV from GNOME Videos for instant multimedia playback out-of-the-box

changed the default for mouse and touchpad support to libinput from synaptics

Issues Resolved

crashing when installing/removing applications

disappearing session when removing keyboard layouts

oversized icons in the LibreOffice window decoration now display at the proper size

Known Issues

Upgrading from 16.10 to 17.04

existing accounts on the system will launch terminix showing a VTE misconfiguration error To resolve: cat /usr/share/budgie-desktop/vteprompt.txt >> ~/.bashrc

your system will have the default applications (from 16.10 and 17.04) for web browsing, video players and terminals. To resolve: sudo apt purge firefox gnome-terminal totem && sudo apt autoremove



Upgrading

How to upgrade from 16.10 to 17.04

sudo do-release-upgrade

How to upgrade from 16.04 to 17.04

Ubuntu Budgie v17.04 (zesty) Released: April 13th 2017A significant portion of this development cycle has been spent integrating with the Canonical build-system. Key visible integration items were:After the release of 17.04 you will be offered to upgrade when you run Software & Updates. Alternatively, from a command line run:Packages that were installed as part of the previous PPA (ppa:budgie-remix/ppa) will be uninstalled as part of the upgrade. These packages can be reinstalled via the 17.04 Ubuntu Budgie backports PPA (ppa:ubuntubudgie/backports) Please refer to the community wiki for more help: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Upgrades Also, Ask Ubuntu has a great guide to help you upgrade: http://askubuntu.com/questions/110477/how-do-i-upgrade-to-a-newer-version-of-ubuntu There is not a direct 16.04 to 17.04 upgrade route. You are recommended to upgrade through 16.10 first and then to 17.04, or to-do a fresh install. To upgrade from 16.04 to 16.10 - https://ubuntubudgie.org/blog/2016/10/08/how-to-upgrade-from-budgie-remix-16-04-to-16-10