A new release of ubuntu-mate-welcome is ready for upload. Attached is a debdiff and tarball because new binary files have been added. This update is required for Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Alpha 2 due for release on January 28th 2016. Here is what's changed:
[ Luke Horwell ]
* New Ambience theme for the navigation bar.
* Improved code re-use for footers (uses JavaScript)
* Detect the graphics card (including VirtualBox)
including information about the NVIDIA drivers PPA.
* Detect BIOS or UEFI and provide relevant guidance.
* Expandable/collapsible sub-sections.
* Hints appear after opening utilities.
* Rename 'index' ID for consistency in code naming.
* Fade in software categories and corrected minor visual quirks.
* Updated Firefox, LibreOffice and Control Centre icons.
* Removed links on software icons. Users were getting confused why
this opened a web page.
* Only use one FontAwesome font supported by WebKit.
* Added new page for live sessions and guest sessions.
* Hides privileged features when launched in guest sessions.
[ Martin Wimpress ]
* Added miscellaneous tasks to update cache, upgrade installed
packages, fix an incomplete install and fix broken dependencies.
* Added Firmware and Codecs one-click installers to Getting Started.
* Added 0 A.D, Ambient Noise, Aptik, Audio Recorder, Bazaar Explorer,
BtSync, Boot Repair, Caja Share, Chromium BSU, Dia, DVD Styler,
EasyTAG, Emby, Enpass, Evolution, Extreme Tux Racer, FlightGear,
FocusWriter, Frozen Bubble, GCompris, Git-Cola, Glade, Gobby,
GParted, Hedgewars, HPLIP-GUI, KDE Connect Indicator, LibreOffice Base,
LibreOffice Draw, LibreOffice Math, LibreOffice (fresh), Liferea,
Minecraft Server, MySQL Workbench, My Paint, Neverball, Neverputt,
Nexuiz, Opera, OpenSSH, Owncloud Client, Parcellite, PlayOnLinux,
Poedit, Recent Notifications, RedNoteBook, ReText, Stellarium,
Teeworlds, Tor Browser, Virt Manager, WarZone 2100, Wesnoth.
* Updated Dropbox, VeraCrypt and X2Go.
* Updated VirtualBox. Closes (LP: #1537395)
* Updated copyright attributions.
* Installing Adobe Flash now uses flashplugin-installer.
* Removed obsolete code.
* Closes (LP: #1537476)
May I respectfully request the importance of this bug be raised from Wishlist. Ubuntu MATE Welcome is a critical component of Ubuntu MATE (an official flavour) and this update is important to us.