A new version of deepin Linux has been released.

Deepin 20.7 Released

Deepin is the top Linux distribution from China, devoted to providing a beautiful, easy-to-use, safe, and reliable operating system for global users. ( Global Ranking)

In deepin 20.7, we have developed and integrated a great number of practical functions based on the community users' feedback, synchronized with the upstream kernel version, fixed underlying vulnerabilities, upgraded the Stable kernel to V5.15.45, added the HWE 5.18 kernel to be compatible with more devices, and further improved system compatibility and security. Welcome to try it!

New HWE 5.18 Kernel

The HWE 5.18 kernel is added to be compatible with more hardware devices and further improve system compatibility and security.

Internal Testing Channel

An entry for applying for internal testing has been added in Control Center. After submitting your application on the webpage, the repository sources for internal testing are automatically added. The whole process only takes two clicks, easier for users to participate in the internal testing.

Keyboard Layout and Input Method

The functions and UI interfaces of keyboard layouts and input methods have been fully optimized, so as to meet the usage habits of both Chinese users and overseas users.

Improved Mail Features

The calendar feature is added into Mail, supporting event management and synchronization. The graphic editing and style configuration of the rich text editor is enhanced. And the logic of loading emails is optimized.

Grand Search

Grand Search supports the Google search engine, and the default search engine can be selected as you want.

New Features and Improvements

Kernel

• Updated the lTS kernel to V5.15.45 by following the upstream.
• Added the HWE 5.18 kernel to be compatible with more devices.

Control Center

• Added the internal test entry in Control Center, by which you can switch** **on the slider to join the internal test.
• Optimized the usage logic of input methods and keyboard layouts to make them better meet the usage habits of both Chinese users and overseas users.
• Added more formats for short date.
• Added the effect when an app was right clicked in the launcher.

Calendar

• Added the settings for the "First day of week" - Sunday or Monday, effective in the daily view and the yearly view.
• Added support for creating new events by dragging and dropping a specific date on the right pane in the daily view.
• Optimized the window's default size and minimum size.
• Optimized the display logic of red dots on gray dates in the yearly view.
• Optimized the UI effect when clicking on a specific date in the yearly view.

Camera

• Added support for saving videos in MP4.

Album

• Optimized the window minimum size to 630*300 pixels.

Screen Capture

• Disabled the text tool, options menu, scrolling screenshots, extracting text, pinning screenshots, and screen recording on the lock screen.

Email

• Added the calendar, supporting event management and sync.
• Added support for batch importing CSV files.
• Added the recipient prediction function.
• Added the settings for the default font style for composing emails.
• Added more functions for the graphic editing and style configuration of the rich text editor.
• Added phishing reminders for some corporate mailboxes.
• Added the drag and drop interaction for importing and exporting contacts, and optimized field mapping of vcf files.
• Optimized the layout and display of the email body.
• Optimized the deletion interaction of mailboxes.
• Optimized the logic of loading emails.

Browser

• Added Google Translate in the context menu for translating English websites.
• Added the entries - New Window and New Incognito Window, if right-clicking the browser icon in the dock.
• Optimized the rounded corners and tab bar height.

Grand Search

• Auto changes the default search engine according to system languages.
• The default search engine can be configured according to user needs.
• The "More" button of a category under search results can be triggered by the Enter key.

Others

• Added support for Qt6.
• The nvidia-vaapi-driver library is integrated, supporting enabling nvidia vaapi hard decoding for Firefox browser.
• Biometric authentication supports more Goodix fingerprint scanners.

Bug Fixes

DDE

• Fixed: UI issues on some devices.

Music

• Fixed: on some devices, when a song directory was added, all songs in other directories at the same level were also added.

Terminal

• Fixed: when a terminal window was at a position across two screens in the dual-screen mode, pressed Ctrl+Shift+? to call out the shortcut windows, their positions were different each time.

File Manager

• Fixed: if a USB flash drive was formatted into vfat, in the next disk format process, its format was displayed as ext3.
• Fixed: after right-clicking multiple folders and opening them with File Manager, Package Installer popped up instead of File Manager.
• Fixed: after searching for non-existing files in the FTP server, and returning back to the upper-level directory, it was displayed incorrectly.
• Fixed: when "Show file system on disk icon" was checked or unchecked in Settings, it did not take effect immediately.
• Fixed: folders permanently deleted were not completely deleted and no error message was shown.
• Fixed: the transfer progress for sending large files from smb servers was displayed abnormally.

Movie

• Fixed: when audio files were played, the default volume was low
• Fixed: the video could not be played if the video name contained {}

Browser

• Fixed: the refreshing effect was wrongly displayed if clicking "Retry" after the extension installation failed.
• Fixed: some videos on webpages cannot be played and failed to load the Netease mailbox webpage.
• Fixed: the background changes in one window were not synced to another opening window.

Email

• Fixed: the long event name was not displayed completely in the text box when a new event was created.

Screen Capture

• Fixed: the text recognition accuracy was low if there was no large blank space around the image.

Image Viewer

• Fixed: the memory usage kept increasing which resulted in memory leakage in the process of switching and viewing images.

AppStore

• Fixed: UI text issues.
• Fixed: if the system language was Spanish or Polish, the app page was displayed wrongly when App Store was minimized.

Control Center

• Changed the text in the advanced settings of input methods.
• Fixed: the input methods' third-level settings cannot be searched for in the search box of Control Center.
• Fixed: there was a prompt box of input methods during system upgrades on some devices.
• Fixed: the input method was selected incorrectly if right-clicking the input method icon when it did not get focus.

Others

• Fixed: the blurred screen occurred in the Dock of the devices with Radeon graphics cards.
• Fixed: after closing multiple windows continuously, the window crashed, and the window effect cannot be enabled again after turning it off.
• Fixed security vulnerabilities to improve system security.
• Fixed: failed to wake up WINE applications on some devices by clicking the tray icons if the display was scaled.
• Updated qemu to solve the running failure of docker-desktop.
• Updated flatpak to solve the problem that flatpak apps were displayed abnormally in the Dock.
• Updated powertop to fix the issue that some devices could not run properly.

Download

Official：
https://cdimage.deepin.com/releases/20.7/deepin-desktop-community-20.7-amd64.iso
Google Drive：
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LSJf-oXOTv6oHbz3cvCp7-M0-TXYw7Lk
BT：
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/aigdgfaefwc74/deepin_20.7

Acknowledgments

We solemnly thank those community teams and companies who have provided testing, documentation,  translation, and  mirroring support. Welcome to use deepin and join our  forum to submit feedback and share your suggestions.

Deepin 20.7 Released – Deepin Technology Community