14 DAY TRIAL // The second Beta release for LibreOffice 5.0 has been made available by The Document Foundation and it's now available for download and testing. Developers are organizing a new bug hunting session for this release.
The new LibreOffice 5.0 branch is progressing nicely, and it looks like things are on track for a release in the next two months. It will take a while to weed all the bugs out of this version, but users need to keep in mind that the entire work for LibreOffice is done by volunteers and not paid employees, which makes the process all that more impressive.
"The LibreOffice community is getting ready for the next major release – planned for late July or early August – with a second bug hunting session focused on new features, including Windows 10 compatibility, and fixes for bugs and regressions. The session will last 3 full days, from June 19 to June 21, 2015, and check the first release candidate of LibreOffice 5.0. On those dates, mentors will be available from 08AM UTC to 10PM UTC to help less experienced volunteers to triage bugs, on the QA IRC channel and via email on the QA mailing list," said the devs.
You can download LibreOffice 5.0 Beta 2 right now from Softpedia, but please keep in mind that it's not a stable version.