MATE 1.6 now released: a ‘’giant’’ step forward from the 1.4 release.

According to the team behind this project,MATE Desktop 1.6. is a giant step forward from the 1.4 release. In fact in this release, we can observe that they have replaced many deprecated packages and libraries with new technologies, also added a lot of new features to MATE.

Therefore main changes include: Systemd-logind support, Caja (file manager) improvements, Panel improvements, Marco (window manager) improvements, Control center improvements:
Added option to enable Marco compositing manager and fast alt-tab in window preferences ,Atril (document viewer) improvements, Calc improvements,
Updated codebase ,Notification daemon improvements ,Themes improvements Icon theme improvements,New theme with green folders (Menta)
Enabled text preview for text files , Settings daemon improvements, Caja open terminal extension improvements, Netbook applet improvements, Dropped packages and Other minor improvements. The full details are available here!