There is a next point release of Sparky 5.15 “Nibiru” of the stable line ready to go. This release is based on Debian stable 10 “Buster”.

Changes between Sparky 5.14 and 5.15:

* system upgraded from Debian & Sparky stable repos as of May 2, 2021

* Linux kernel 4.19.181 (PC)

* Linux kernel 5.10.17-v7+ (ARMHF)

* Firefox 78.10.0esr

* Thunderbird 78.10.0

* VLC 3.0.12

* LibreOffice 6.1.5-3

* LXQt 0.14.1

* Xfce 4.12.5

* Openbox 3.6.1-8

* small improvements

* fonts Sans set to size 11

System reinstallation is not required; if you have Sparky 5.x installed, make full system upgrade:

sparky-upgrade

or:

sudo apt update

sudo apt full-upgrade

or via the System Upgrade tool.

Sparky 5 is available in the following flavours:

– amd64 & i686: LXQt, Xfce, MinimalGUI (Openbox) & MinimalCLI (text mode)

– armhf: Openbox & CLI (text mode)

New live/install media of the stable line can be downloaded from the .