On December 4, 2015. the Linux Mint Developer has officially released and announced Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition and Linux Mint 17.3 MATE edition. The both based on the long-term supported Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system from Canonical, powered by linux kernel 3.19, uses Xorg 1.17 and Mesa 10.5.9.