Ubuntu MATE 21.10 Impish Indri Released.
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Martin Wimpress has announced the release of Ubuntu MATE 21.10. The new version will
receive nine months of support and features MATE 1.26.0 as the default desktop environment.
"A significant effort has been invested in fixing bugs in MATE Desktop 1.26.0, optimising
performance and plugging memory leaks. MATE Desktop is faster and leaner as a result and
its underpinnings have been modernised and updated. This last point mostly benefits developers
working on MATE, but is important to highlight to users at it demonstrates MATE Desktop is
being maintained to ensure its longevity. Here are some of the other quality of life
improvements in MATE Desktop 1.26: The Control Center features: Improved Window Preferences
dialog with a more comprehensive window behaviour and placement options presented. Display preferences
now has an option for discrete display scaling. Power Manager has a new option to enable keyboard
dimming. Notifications now support for hyperlinks. Caja can format drives and has a new Bookmarks
sidebar.
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The significant change in Ubuntu MATE 21.10 is the introduction of MATE Desktop 1.26.0
✨ which was 18 months in the making. Thanks to the optimisations in MATE Desktop 1.26,
Ubuntu MATE 21.10 is faster and leaner 💪
What changed since the Ubuntu MATE 21.04? Here are the highlights of what’s changed
since the release of Hirsute Hippo 🦛
MATE Desktop 🧉 A significant effort 😅 has been invested
in fixing bugs 🐛 in MATE Desktop 1.26.0, optimising performance ⚡ and plugging memory
leaks. MATE Desktop is faster and leaner as a result and it’s underpinnings have been
modernised and updated. This last point mostly benefits developers working on MATE, but is
important to highlight to users at it demonstrates MATE Desktop is being maintained to ensure
it’s longevity.
Here are some of the other quality of life 💌 improvements in MATE Desktop 1.26:
The Control Center features: Improved Window Preferences dialog with a
more comprehensive window behaviour and placement options presented.
Display preferences now has an option for discrete display scaling.
Power Manager has a new option to enable keyboard dimming.
Notifications now support for hyperlinks. Caja can format drives and has a new Bookmarks
sidebar. Caja Actions, which allows you to add arbitrary
programs to be launched through the context menu, is now part of the Desktop.
Calculator now uses GNU MPFR/MPC for high precision, faster computation and additional
functions. Pluma has a new mini map instant overview,
a grid background to turn Pluma into a writing pad and the preferences have been redesigned.
Atril is much faster scrolling through large documents and the memory footprint has been
reduced. Engrampa, the archive manager, now supports
EPUB, ARC and encrypted RAR files. Marco, the windows manager:
Correctly restores minimised windows to their original position.
Thumbnail window previews support HiDPI. Netspeed applet shows more information about
your network interfaces. While MATE Desktop is not completely ready
for Wayland just yet, 1.26.0 represents a significant stepping stone towards that objective
with most of the MATE Desktop being able to run on a Wayland compositor. 👍
Ubuntu MATE Enhancements Ubuntu MATE has tweaked 🔧 the default desktop
configuration slighty:
Image Extrapolation and Interpolation is disabled by default in Eye of MATE to make image viewing
faster and image quality sharper. The Alt-Tab pop-up is now expanded to fit
long window titles. If you use the Mutiny layout, session loading
is now faster. Guest Session
Once in a while a friend, family member, or colleague may want to borrow your computer
😱 The Guest Session provides a convenient way, with a high level of security, to lend
your computer to someone else. A guest session can be launched either from the login screen
or from within a regular session. If you are currently logged in, click the icon at the
far right of the menu bar and select Guest Session. This will lock the screen for your
own session and start the guest session.
A guest cannot view the home folders of other users, and by default any saved data or changed
settings will be removed/reset at logout. It means that each session starts with a fresh
environment, unaffected by what previous guests did.
RedShift RedShift makes a return, after being temporarily
removed in Ubuntu MATE 21.04.
Raspberry Pi images We will be refreshing our Ubuntu MATE images
for Raspberry Pi in the coming weeks.
Major Applications Accompanying MATE Desktop 1.26.0 and Linux
5.13 are Firefox 93.0, Celluloid 0.20, LibreOffice 7.2.1.2
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