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Linux Mint's next Cinnamon release will fully support Wayland, alongside security fixes, Nvidia improvements, and numerous desktop enhancements.
Jul 8, 2026 11:16 EDT
As we settle well into the new month, the Linux Mint team has released a new update on the state of the project detailing work done last month.
Back in March, the dev team revealed a new Wayland-compatible screensaver that directly replaces the old, janky cinnamon-screensaver (which launched back in 2013 with Linux Mint 15 "Olivia"). Now the team has announced that Wayland itself is going to be "fully supported" in the next version of Cinnamon, which is scheduled to ship inside the next version of Linux Mint sometime around Christmas this year.
