It would appear that the feature-rich MATE 1.18 desktop environment released last week is now available for installation from the official stable Solus repositories for users of the Solus MATE edition, along with the long-term supported Linux 4.9.16 kernel and numerous other up-to-date components. Among these, we can mention Audacious 3.8.2, Calibre 2.82.0, FileZilla 3.25.0, Mozilla Firefox 52.0.1, Mozilla Thunderbird 45.8.0, FocusWriter 1.6.4, Deluge 1.3.14, digiKam 5.5.0, HomeBank 5.1.4, irssi 1.0.2, mpd 0.20.6, MyPaint 1.2.1, Meld 3.16.4, Ninja 1.7.2, PHP 7.0.17, Pidgin 2.12.0, QOwnNotes 17.03.6, Vi valdi Snapshot 1.8.770.25, and ALSA 1.1.3.