[ANN] LibreOffice 3.4 Beta 5 available

Dear Community,

The Document Foundation is happy to announce the fifth beta release
of LibreOffice 3.4. The upcoming 3.4 will be the second major release
of the LibreOffice project, and comes with many exciting new
features. Please be aware that LibreOffice 3.4 Beta5 is not yet ready
for production use, you should continue to use LibreOffice 3.3.2 for
that.

The beta release is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X from our
QA builds download page at

  http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/

A list of new features specific to LibreOffice is to be found here:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.4

Should you find bugs, please report them to the FreeDesktop Bugzilla:

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org

For other ways to get involved with this exciting project - you can
e.g. contribute code:

  https://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/developers/

translate LibreOffice to your language:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Translation_for_3.4

or help with funding our foundation:

  http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/

A list of known issues with 3.4 Beta5 is available from our wiki:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.4/beta5

Please find the list of changes against LibreOffice 3.4 Beta4 here:

  http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/bugfixes-libreoffice-3-4-release-3.3.99.5.log

Let us close again with a BIG Thank You! to all of you having
contributed to the LibreOffice project - this release would not have
been possible without your help.

Yours,

The Steering Committee of The Document Foundation