In order to provide community users with advance knowledge of the deepin operating system (hereinafter referred to as "deepin") version planning, the deepin team will announce the planning goals for the next pre-release version in advance before the release. The planning content will be published from a technical and functional perspective, allowing everyone to have a preliminary understanding of the development plan for deepin.

deepin 25 Alpha is scheduled for release in March 2025. The Alpha version has enhanced system-level product functionality and personalized management capabilities to provide users with a complete desktop environment. This version continues design improvements and functional optimizations for the deepin Solid Operating System and Control Center modules (wallpaper, screensaver, power management, mouse, touchpad, etc.), now meeting daily usage and management requirements while integrating features requested by user feedback.

Release Schedule

Version Time Progress
deepin 23 2024-08 [Already Released]]
deepin 25 Preveiw 2025-01 [Already Released]
deepin 25 Alpha 2025-03  [Under Development]

 

deepin 25 Alpha Version Planning

Feature Additions and Optimizations deepin Solid Operating System

  • Optimized technical solutions to resolve slow application installation issues
  • Improved backup logic by removing automatic system backups during app installations
  • Enhanced upgrade solution to support direct upgrades from Preview editions

Installer

  • Adjusted EFI partition size to 300MB
  • Improved prompt messages for abnormal scenarios during system installation
  • Refined interface text content

DDE

  • Completed redesign and functional enhancement of the personalization module
  • Completed redesign and functional enhancement of the power management module
  • Completed redesign and functional enhancement of the sound module
  • Completed redesign and functional enhancement of the Bluetooth module
  • Completed redesign and functional enhancement of the default applications module
  • Completed redesign and functional enhancement of the notification center
  • Completed redesign and functional enhancement of the mouse and touchpad module
  • Completed redesign and functional enhancement of the display module
  • Added solid-color wallpaper customization with user-defined color values
  • Introduced customizable time ranges for Eye Comfort Mode
  • Added touchpad animation demos to demonstrate basic functionalities
  • Added three-finger and four-finger gesture customization support for touchpads
  • Added Smart Mirror Source configuration in system updates
  • Added audio channel merging to resolve missing output in specific scenarios
  • Set Pipewire as default audio framework (future audio devices will be Pipewire-based)
  • Added quick-access entry for system backup/restore/factory reset operations

Browser

  • Updated in-house browser version to improve stability
  • Added dark theme mode with optimized interface display experience
  • Enhanced touchscreen device compatibility

Language Notepad/Text Editor

  • Added voice dictation and text-to-speech options in right-click context menus
  • Added speech-to-text transcription capability

Subsystem

  • Added subsystem information display in terminal title bars

*The above core feature plans may have some deviations from the final release content. For detailed features, please pay attention to the release notes of the deepin 25 version.