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• fix Restart and Shutdown countdown visual repainting a2e1f0c
• 7 yrs old spelling error.... dear God... what have I done f2f7472
• minimize message 4a09539
• moved Goodbye inside the last message ce12945

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• Added flatpak support
• Fixed restarting of stopped snaps
• Added countdown to Shutdown and Restart in case user wants to cancel the procedure
• Fixed some wording of messages

P.S. Thanks to @FrankiePustorino for the contributions that led to the release

I want to express my gratitude for your support over the past 15 years. If this is your first time using this software, please consider making a donation: PayPal donation link

As always, if you already have installed it previously you should have received the update. If not, just grab the latest .deb package.

If you want to get in touch, share an idea, I've enabled the Discussions section of Github : uCareSystem Discussions

This new release includes several major features and bug fixes:

• Streamline the versioning by using Year.Month.minor eg 24.04.0 is release of 2024, April, minor version .0
• It checks internet connectivity, gracefully exits, and informs the user about any connectivity issues if the device is not connected to the internet.
• It verifies the presence of Snap packages on the system and updates them accordingly.
• If Snap packages are found, it also removes any old revisions to free up space.
• It enhances the user experience by replacing the message '... will start in 5 seconds' with a proper countdown indication.
• It displays the percentage of disk usage and available free space before and after performing system maintenance.
• New -r for reboot and -s for shutdown options for terminal users if they want to reboot/shutdown their system after performing system maintenance

I want to express my gratitude for your support over the past 15 years. If this is your first time using this software, please consider making a donation: PayPal donation link

As always, if you already have installed it previously you should have received the update. If not, just grab the latest .deb package.

If you want to get in touch, share an idea, I've enabled the Discussions section of Github : uCareSystem Discussions

Some internal features are implemented:

• Replaced gksu with pkexec #17
• Check if system reboot is required #7
• Revert to old apt-get in autoremove command to tackle Debian Jessies' old apt version #11

As always, if you already have installed it previously you should have received the update. If not, just grab the latest '.deb' package

A great usability milestone. The 4.3.0 introduces a menu icon and a launcher for ucaresystem-core. Once installed or updated, you will find a uCareSystem Core entry in your menu that you can click if you want to launch ucaresystem-core. This is great especially for users that do not know the terminal way of things. Also it is great for your friends', parents' PC that do not fell comfortable with the terminal.

Last but not least this version fixes some bugs for Debian and Linux Mint distributions. In summary here is a changelog:

• Add a Menu entry and an icon Enhancement #16
• Has premature member ‘control.tar.xz’ before ‘control.tar.gz’, giving up #9
• Add lsb-release as dependency Bug #10
• E: Command line option --purge is not understood | Debian Jessie Bug #11

As always, if you already have installed it previously you should have received the update. If not, just grab the latest .deb package

Mainly a bug fix release.

• fix postinst hook that triggers apt update during upgrade and thus, locks apt.

This new release includes some of the features that already exist :

• Updates the list of available packages
• Downloads and installs the available updates
• Checks if there are older Linux kernels on the system and removes them. However it keeps the current and one previous version of the kernel.
• Cleans the cache of the downloaded packages
• Removes obsolete packages
• Removes orphan packets
• Deletes package configuration files from packages that have been uninstalled by you
• Allows upgrade to supported versions when the OS has reached EOL (Ubuntu and official flavours only)
• Allows upgrade to new releases when they are available (Ubuntu and official flavours only)

plus :

• user can install the deb package and it will automatically check if repository exists. If not it will add it to the system
• It is compatible with Debian and Ubuntu based distributions (feedback needed for non-official derivatives)

So you can grab the deb package that is included in the zip file and install it