MATE 1.12 final is out now

MATE is a traditional desktop environment, started as a Gnome 2 fork. The latest version, 1.12 has just been released with the following changes:

• Fixes and improvements for GTK3 support across the entire MATE Desktop including GTK 3.18 support.
• Touchpad support is significantly improved and now features multi touch and natural scrolling.
• Multi monitor support has been improved so the display settings use output names and the revised UI lets you set the primary monitor.
• The power applet now displays model and vendor information so you can distinguish between multiple battery powered devices.
• Improved session management which now includes screensaver inhibition while playing media.
  • MATE now listens to the org.gnome.SessionManager namespace.
• Extended systemd support.
• Long standing bugs and many little usability paper-cuts were fixed.
  • For example, panel applets are no longer reordered when changing screen resolutions.
• Translations updated and a number of components now retrieve strings directly from gschema (requires intltool 0.50.1).
• Dropped support for win32 and osx.

For more information about what has been changed, read the official announcement.

• Official announcement
• MATE Desktop 1.12 screenshots