It's great to see the MATE edition going strong! You guys totally saved me by forking GNOME 2 and creating MATE and it's been my daily driver for many years now, which I why I decided to sponsor the project as well
I notice from the screenshot showing the GNOME maps and clocks etc, that we're still stuck with their CSD madness with hamburger menus embedded in the title bar and lack of integration with the rest of the window manager theme Is there any further news on convincing them to make that layout an option rather than a doctrine? I really want my classic menus and title bars back
Hopefully I'll be upgrading to this release in the next week or so