The news for this release has been read about on the WWW for a while now and Mint has finally released their long awaited 17.2 release. It's available for both the Mate and Cinnamon DE. The improvements for the Mate DE include some significant changes.
You can have a look at the changelog here:
MATE | MATE
For reading about the newer Mint release, have a look at the DW link below after the brief news report:
Development Release: Linux Mint 17.2 RC (DistroWatch.com News)Clement Lefebvre has announced a new release candidate for Linux Mint 17.2. The new release, which is available in Cinnamon and MATE editions, offers a number of performance improvements. The Cinnamon edition improves support for multi-monitor configurations and allows users to run multiple panels on their desktop. The MATE edition of Linux Mint ships with MATE 1.10 and is able to automatically detect and support multiple sound back-ends, including OSS, ALSA and PulseAudio. Both editions feature a more customizable Update Manager, a more flexible login screen and low-level enhancements. "The bash command completion was improved. The terminal is now able to better auto-complete the commands you type and also their arguments. The bash history was improved and no longer accepts duplicates. A new APT command was introduced to list missing recommended packages for a particular package. Say you installed wine, you can review the list of packages it recommends which aren't installed on your computer.
There is also some info on the Linux Action Show about Mate if your on Youtube watching.
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