Installer No. 117 spotlights Acme Weather’s comeback as a Dark Sky–style weather app, praising its multi-forecast features, while also covering Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra, a refined RSS reader, and crowd-sourced picks from The Verge’s community.
Ubuntu 23.10, codenamed Mantic Minotaur, introduces new installation options with a slimmed-down default installation and the ability to choose ZFS as the primary file system. The App Center has been upgraded with faster performance and rewritten in Flutter, while a dedicated firmware updater tool has been added. The upgrade to GNOME 45 brings changes such as an Activities Indicator and improved search performance. The 6.5 kernel provides faster boot times, support for Xbox controllers' rumble haptic feedback, and improved AppArmor policies. Additionally, Personal Package Archives (PPAs) are now handled differently.