In order to enable community users to recognize the deepin OS version planning in advance, the deepin team will regularly announce the planning goals for the next pre-release version 1.5 months before the release, and release the planning content from the technical and functional perspectives, so that everyone can have a preliminary understanding of the deepin OS development plan.

The V23 RC is planned to be released in April 2024. The goal of this version is to complete the planning of all basic functions and achieve the goal of technological updates and replacements.

 

Release Schedule

deepin V23 Beta2 2023-09 [Already Released]
deepin V23 Beta3 2024-02 [Already Released]
deepin V23 RC 2024-04 [Under Development]

 

V23 RC Version Planning

NEW FEATURES Launcher

  • Reconstruct the overall design interface.
  • Optimize interaction and usage methods.
  • Improve the utilization of right-side space in window mode.
  • Window mode now supports quick indexing by category.
  • Window mode with a new free sorting method.
  • Window mode supports application group display.
  • Window mode reintroduces some V20 features.

Taskbar

  • Underwent overall design optimization
  • Redefined the layout of functions
  • Optimized the application opening effect and the style of the application activation indicator

Drivers

Pre-installed some common printer drivers to ensure normal use of common drivers.

Calendar

  • Supports following system time, date format
  • Cloud sync

Screen mirroring

Supports system desktop casting

Window manager

Optimized animation effects
BUG FIXES Fix known bugs in V23 Beta3.
KERNEL Update to 6.6, supporting Intel's latest Meteor Lake processor.
SYSTEM COMPONENTS Planned upgrades for openssl, libx11, libdrm, ncurses, freetype, mesa, tar, dpkg, apt, icu, glib2.0, tzdata, network-manager, zlib, bluez, pam, ffmpeg, xorg-server, lightdm.
SECURITY Fix known security vulnerabilities.
NEW PLATFORM SUPPORT Release images for loongarch64 and arm64.

*The above core feature plans may have some deviations from the final release content. For detailed features, please pay attention to the release notes of the V23 RC version.

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