How update Xfce packages and applets

[Dutchy]

Hello

Running Linux Mint 21.1 and Xfce 4.16.0
I found the Whiskermenu was outdated. Did a download and (cumbersome due to dependencies) rebuild to latest version, all ok.

Question is:
Why is the applet outdated ? I update daily via update manager.
Other applets may be outdated as well

So: how to keep all this Xfce apps and applets up to date in one go ?

Cheers,
Dutchy

[xenopeek]

Linux Mint is not a rolling-release base distro; you don't get new feature versions of software as they are released but instead have a collection of about 70.000 software components and apps whose versions were tested together to work well together and for the duration of the lifetime of the Linux Mint release you get security updates for them. This is because Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS (and LMDE on Debian stable), a long-term support release.

A new LTS release is done every 2 years and then new feature versions of all components become available. That's for upcoming Linux Mint 22 mid this year. In between LTS releases Linux Mint does a minor release every 6 months that makes new versions of software developed or maintained by Linux Mint available. Such as Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, Mint tools, Xapps and more. For some apps you do get new feature releases as regular updates, like for Firefox and Chromium.

You can upgrade to Linux Mint 21.3 through Update Manager; https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4629. That will get you Xfce 4.18. Whisker Menu 2.7.x did receive fixes for Linux Mint 21.3 but isn't on the 2.8.x branch. That will happen for Linux Mint 22.

[Dutchy]

Ok, Thank you.
So patience is the solution here.
Cheers,
Dutchy