How to Upgrade to MATE Desktop 1.26 on Ubuntu

Users of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 21.04 can now upgrade to the recent MATE desktop 1.26 release through a dedicated PPA. The ‘Fresh MATE PPA’ is maintained by Ubuntu MATE developers, and is aimed at existing users of Ubuntu MATE who want to install MATE desktop 1.26 on their systems. However, the PPA (and the packages within) are compatible with all Ubuntu flavours, meaning you can add this PPA to install the MATE desktop experience alongside whichever DEs you use at present (just, be careful). The PPA provides updated MATE desktop components (including new versions of core apps like Pluma :sys_more_orange:
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MATE Desktop 1.26 Released with Initial Wayland Support,

MATE desktop 1.26 has been released. Over 18 months of development have gone into creating the latest stable release of this popular desktop environment. “The theme for this release has been adding new functionality to the MATE Desktop while maintaining the look and feel that we all know and love,” writes MATE’s Johannes Unruh in the release announcement. “While all the added features are surely quite exciting we also did not forget to do tons of bugfixing, modernising the code base and optimizing the performance.” MATE Desktop 1.26 Features The latest version of the MATE desktop includes Wayland support for a swathe of :sys_more_orange:
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