Ubuntu MATE 16.10 will now definitely ship with the MATE Desktop 1.16, with all relevant desktop packages and app updates available in the Ubuntu archives.
This post, MATE Desktop 1.16 Is Now Available on Ubuntu MATE 16.10, was written by Joey-Elijah Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
MATE Desktop 1.16 is said to focus on “improving GTK3+ compatibility, migrating components to newer libraries, fixing bugs and code hygiene.”