14 DAY TRIAL // The latest development version of the LibreOffice suite has landed in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with the help of a third-party PPA.
The LibreOffice development is going strong and The Document Foundation has been pushing one version after another, sometimes faster than the users can actually upgrade. A new RC build has been released for the upcoming LibreOffice 4.2.3, and Ubuntu 14.04 users can install it and use it.
Getting the bleeding edge version of LibreOffice in Ubuntu systems is very easy. All you have to do is to add an official PPA, which features the latest version. Ubuntu repositories usually hold only the final versions of a branch, so this is the only way of getting the development release.
For this to work, you will have to remove the old LibreOffice release, but that will be done by the installation script.
Open a terminal and enter the following commands (keep in mind that you will have to remove libreoffice-core and you will need root access):
sudo apt-get purge libreoffice-core sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-prereleases sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libreoffice
Getting the latest LibreOffice versions will allow you to see what has been changed between versions first-hand. Even if this is a development release, the new LibreOffice versions tend to be rather stable, but you shouldn't put too much faith in it.
Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.