 Multimedia codecs that had previously been included in the standard Mint distribution were no longer included in 'Sarah', but could be loaded with a graphical application that one "Ars Technica" reviewer said should be obvious for new users.On January 3, 2018, the Linux Mint Team released news of Linux Mint 19 'Tara'.The team has stated that the 19.x releases will use GTK 3.22, and will be based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which will be supported until 2023.