14 DAY TRIAL // Martin Wimpress was pleased to announce today, April 13, 2017, the release and immediate availability for download of the Ubuntu MATE 17.04 official Ubuntu flavor featuring the MATE desktop environment.
Landing as part of the Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) release, the Ubuntu MATE 17.04 operating system features the latest MATE 1.18.0 desktop environment, which has been completely ported to the GTK+ 3 technologies. This means that Ubuntu MATE 17.04 is the first release of the flavor to drop GTK+ 2 support.
"This is our favorite release of Ubuntu MATE so far and, we believe, a real return to form," said Martin Wimpress. "Ubuntu MATE 16.10 was a transitional release, in every sense, and 17.04 concludes the upheaval of migrating to GTK3+. This has been a release focused on refining the distro and sweating the details."
What's new in Ubuntu MATE 17.04
Besides all the goodies brought by the migration to the MATE 1.18 desktop environment and GTK+ 3 technologies, Ubuntu MATE 17.04 ships with the Brisk Menu 0.3.5 applications menu created in collaboration with Ikey Doherty from the Solus Project, and a new Ambiant-MATE Dark theme contributed by Dave.
Updated in-house built components include Ubuntu MATE Artwork 17.04.11, MATE Dock Applet 0.77, Ubuntu MATE Welcome 17.04.11, and Ubuntu MATE Settings 17.04.7, all of which have their own changelogs in the official release notes for the operating system if you're curious to know what's new.
However, we recommend that you upgrade or download the Ubuntu MATE 17.04 Live ISO images right now from our website and install the distro on your personal computer if you want to discover all the new improvements and optimizations implemented by the Ubuntu MATE team during the past six months.
Under the hood, Ubuntu MATE 17.04 is powered by the same updated kernel and graphics stack as Ubuntu 17.04. Specifically, you'll enjoy the latest Linux 4.10 kernel, Mesa 17.0.3 graphics stack, and X.Org Server 1.19.3 display server. Ubuntu MATE 17.04 will be supported with security updates until January 2018.
