A new development cycle has started for LibreOffice

Nov 25, 2014 19:06 GMT  ·  By

The Document Foundation has just announced that the first Beta for the new LibreOffice 4.4 branch has been made available and is now ready for testing.

The work for LibreOffice never stops and this is actually one of the perks of being open source software. The application is constantly improved and the users can easily see what is being done in this regard. Usually, new major updates for a new branch will have several devel versions before the stable one is released, and that means we are still pretty far away from that milestone.

Some of the most interesting changes include a memory fix for RTF import, improved OOXML import, better support for DOCX documents, better handling of OOXML gradients, and numerous other fixes.

If you have an Ubuntu system, you might be able to get the new version from this PPA, although it's not yet live. It will be activated in a couple of days. Just enter these commands in a terminal (root is needed):

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-4
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
You can download the LibreOffice 4.4 Beta 1 source packages from Softpedia, if you want to compile them yourself. You can also get the Windows or Mac OS X versions from Softpedia as well.

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