14 DAY TRIAL // The Document Foundation, through Italo Vignoli, announced today, April 18, 2017, that the upcoming major update to the popular LibreOffice open-source office suite, versioned 5.4, has entered development.
While the LibreOffice 5.4 release should hit the streets sometime at the end of July, the folks over at The Document Foundations already planned the first bug hunting session for the first Alpha build, which should happen next Friday, on April 28, 2017. During this session, the team plans to squash numerous bugs.
"In order to find, report and triage bugs, the QA team is organizing the first Bug Hunting Session on Friday, April 28, 2017. All details are available on the specific wiki page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHuntingSession/5.4.0Alpha," reads today's blog announcement.
The LibreOffice 5.4 Alpha 1 development release should be out a few days before the event, distributed as DEB and RPM binary packages for various GNU/Linux distributions, as well as installers for macOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Two dedicated sessions will be performed during the first bug hunting session, the first targeted to chase bugs on the main LibreOffice modules, and the second to test a set of the top seven features of the upcoming LibreOffice 5.4 release. Everyone is welcome to take part if they want to make LibreOffice more robust.
Meanwhile, we recommend that you also read our more in-depth article about the upcoming features of LibreOffice 5.4, at least those that have been revealed until now. LibreOffice 5.4 will have a total of six maintenance updates, and will reach end of life on June 11, 2018.