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Ubuntu MATE Changelog

What's new in Ubuntu MATE 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Oct 31, 2023
  • Ubuntu MATE 23.10 is more of what you like, stable MATE Desktop on top of current Ubuntu. This release rolls up a number of bugs fixes and updates that continues to build on recent releases, where the focus has been on improving stability.
  • I’d like to extend my sincere thanks to everyone who has played an active role in improving Ubuntu MATE for this release. From reporting bugs, submitting translations, providing patches, contributing to our crowd-funding, developing new features, creating artwork, offering community support, actively testing and providing QA feedback to writing documentation or creating this fabulous website.
  • CHANGES SINCE UBUNTU MATE 23.04:
  • Here are the highlights of what’s changed since the release of Ubuntu MATE 23.04
  • MATE DESKTOP:
  • MATE Desktop has been updated to 1.26.2 with a selection of bugs fixes and minor improvements to associated components.
  • caja-rename 23.10.1-1 has been ported from Python to C.
  • libmatemixer 1.26.0-2+deb12u1 resolves heap corruption and application crashes when removing USB audio devices.
  • mate-desktop 1.26.2-1 improves portals support.
  • mate-notification-daemon 1.26.1-1 fixes several memory leaks.
  • mate-system-monitor 1.26.0-5 now picks up libexec files from /usr/libexec
  • mate-session-manager 1.26.1-2 set LIBEXECDIR to /usr/libexec/ for correct interaction with mate-system-monitor
  • mate-user-guide 1.26.2-1 is a new upstream release.
  • mate-utils 1.26.1-1 fixes several memory leaks.
  • YET MORE AI GENERATED WALLPAPER:
  • My friend Simon Butcher is Head of Research Platforms at Queen Mary University of London managing the Apocrita HPC cluster service. Once again, Simon has created a stunning AI-generated wallpaper for Ubuntu MATE using bleeding edge diffusion models. The sample below is 1920x1080 but the version included in Ubuntu MATE 23.10 are 3840x2160.
  • MAJOR APPLICATIONS:
  • Accompanying MATE Desktop 1.26.2 and Linux 6.5 are Firefox 118, Celluloid 0.25, Evolution 3.50, LibreOffice 7.6.1
  • See the Ubuntu 23.10 Release Notes for details of all the changes and improvements that Ubuntu MATE benefits from.