Ubuntuland & The Dream Planet: Pasi Lallinaho has announced the release of Xubuntu 13.10, an official flavour of the Ubuntu with Xfce - a stable, light and configurable desktop environment.

The Xubuntu team is delighted to announce the release of Xubuntu 13.10!

Some of the highlights for Xubuntu 13.10 include:

A new version of xfce4-settings has been uploaded, bringing amongst other things a new dialog to set up your displays
A tool for changing your theme colors easily, gtk-theme-config, has been added to the default installation
New wallpaper
New releases of our Gtk themes (with Gtk3.10 support) as well as the LightDM greeter, fixing many visual bugs
Updated documentation

The release notes along with full list of new features and known issues can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseNotes/Xubuntu.

We want to thank all of our contributors: keep up the good work! The development status along with a full list of work tasks done by the team and other contributors, including many tasks not directly visible to our end-users, can be found at http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-s/group/topic-s-flavor-xubuntu.html. To find out more about how to contribute to Xubuntu and join in as we get ready to develop a new long-term support (LTS) release, see the Get Involved section.

If you find bugs in Xubuntu, please file them through the automatic reporting process or by manually running ‘ubuntu-bug packagename’. To read more about reporting bugs, please refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

Xubuntu via Distrowatch:

Pasi Lallinaho has announced the release of Xubuntu 13.10, an official flavour of the Ubuntu operating system with Xfce - a stable, light and configurable desktop environment: "The Xubuntu team is delighted to announce the release of Xubuntu 13.10! Some of the highlights for Xubuntu 13.10 include: a new version of xfce4-settings has been uploaded, bringing amongst other things a new dialog to set up your displays; a tool for changing your theme colors easily, gtk-theme-config, has been added to the default installation; new wallpaper; new releases of our GTK+ themes (with GTK+ 3.10 support) as well as the LightDM greeter, fixing many visual bugs; updated documentation. Known problems: indicator sound no longer functions with Xfce indicator plugin; gmusicbrowser's albuminfo plugin is deactivated by default and causes the app to hang if enabled...." See the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download: xubuntu-13.10-desktop-amd64.iso (842MB, SHA256, torrent).