What's new in Ubuntu 15.04
Apr 23, 2015
- The general theme for 15.04 on the desktop is one of bug fixes and incremental quality improvements as well as a more significant change in the move to systemd as an init system.
- Unity:
- Unity has had many bugs fixed and new features added. Locally integrated menus are now available for unfocussed windows. There have been a number of usability improvements to the dash.
- Unity 7.3:
- A configuration option to have menus displayed at all times instead of only on mouseover.
- Enable the Dash, HUD, or logout dialogs over fullscreen windows.
- Tweaks to animations for faster startup and shutdown experiences.
- Compiz 0.9.12:
- Fixes for various problems that occur only with the nVidia proprietary driver (mostly blank or black windows) (thanks nVidia).
- Full integrated support for the MATE desktop on a par with Gnome2 and Unity
- Refresh of the gtk-window-decorator for Gnome2 support
- General:
- Firefox is updated to version 36 and Chromium is updated to version 41.
- Most of the Gnome platform is now based on version 3.14. Qt updated to version XX.
- Pulseaudio is updated to version 6 paving the way for a move to Bluez5 next release.
- LibreOffice:
- LibreOffice 4.4 brings a lot of improvements including improved change tracking in Writer, improve mail merge performance, improved shapes which can now have fully formatted content with tables etc, more statistics functions in Calc, improved OpenGL support for slide transitions in Impress and Draw, password protected documents in Impress. Support for digital signed PDF exports has been added, as has support for connecting to Sharepoint and One Drive. Many new multimedia formats are supported including .ra, .rm, .dv, .ac3, .opus, .asf, and .m4a.