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The Linux Mint team has released Linux Mint 19 final, codename Tara, in [editions using] the desktop [environments] Cinnamon, Mate, [or] Xfce.

Linux Mint users who run Linux Mint 18.3 or a beta version of Linux Mint 19 will be able to upgrade to the new [release] directly. Those who don't need to upgrade to Mint 18.3 first or install the new version of Linux Mint manually instead.

[...] One of the big new features of Linux Mint 19 is Timeshift. It is part of all [three editions of Mint 19]. Timeshift creates snapshots of the system so that users may restore a previous version of the system using the functionality.

Thanks to Timeshift, you can go back in time and restore your computer to the last functional system snapshot. If anything breaks, you can go back to the previous snapshot and it's as if the problem never happened.

It works similarly to [MSFT] Windows' System Restore feature.

Along with support for Timeshift comes a change in the Update Manager. The Linux Mint 19 update manager suggests [that you] install all updates in the new [release] of the operating system instead of a selection of updates.

The main idea behind the change is that users and admins may restore a previous system snapshot using Timeshift if the installation of updates causes issues. It is still possible, however, to deselect updates so that they are not installed.

Linux Mint 19 comes with one additional update-related [change]. Any user may enable automatic updates in the update preferences now. [In the past,] Linux Mint did not offer a switch to turn on automatic updates [...] because it required advanced knowledge of the distribution to restore broken systems.

English isn't Martin Brinkmann's first language and he's still becoming familiar with Linux and Mint and their terminologies.

To avoid some confusion, note that comments from their Mint 19 Beta article, earlier in June, have been folded into their new article.

In the comments there, AnorKnee Merce notes

[A} Timeshift [snapshot] will take up about 6GB of disk space in the Root or / partition. If this partition is [smaller than] 20GB, [an] "out of disk space" condition will likely occur = a borked system

Additionally, Mint is based on Ubuntu, which is, in turn, based on Debian. All of those use systemd as "an init".

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