Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Release In December

A roadmap/schedule has been published for the lightweight Xfce 4.20 desktop. If all goes well this next iteration of the Xfce desktop will be out before Christmas.

The Xfce 4.20 schedule published yesterday puts the Xfce 4.20 final release plan to occur on 15 December -- two years to the day after the Xfce 4.18 release. To make the Xfce 4.20 release date, the feature and string freeze with Xfce 4.20pre1 release is aiming for 1 November, a second pre-release for the 1st of December, and then hopefully release on 15 December. But there is the possibility of a third pre-release being warranted in which case the Xfce 4.20 release date would slip to 29 December.

The Xfce 4.20 schedule can be found on the Xfce.org Wiki. Expect Xfce 4.20 to offer up more Wayland support improvements, bug fixes, translation updates, and other modernization improvements. The developers have been hoping that Xfce 4.20 will feature usable Wayland support while retaining X11 compatibility.