Linux Mint team announced immediate availability of Linux Mint 17.2 KDE and XFCE release candidates. These release candidates are made available 10 days after release of Linux Mint 17.2 MATE and Cinnamon Releases. Similar to recent release of Linux Mint, this release is also based on Ubuntu 14.04.x and hence will provide support till 2019.
Through official release announcements, developers claim that, this release has made a lot of improvement over previous releases in terms of software packages and responsive behavior to provide a better user experience.