Sparky 5.13

A next point release of Sparky 5.13 “Nibiru” of the stable line is out. This release is based on Debian stable 10 “Buster”.

Changes between 5.12 and 5.13:
• system upgraded from Debian stable repos as of November 3, 2020
• Linux kernel 4.19.152 (PC)
• Linux kernel 5.4.72-v7+ (ARMHF)
• Firefox 78.4.0esr
• Thunderbird 78.4.0
• VLC 3.0.11
• LibreOffice 6.1.5-3
• LXQt 0.14.1
• Xfce 4.12.5
• Openbox 3.6.1

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 download/stable page.

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