Dear Community,
The Document Foundation is happy to announce the third release
candidate of LibreOffice 3.5.0. The upcoming 3.5 will be our third
major release line, packed with many exciting new features. Please be
aware that LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC3 is not ready for production use, you
should continue to use LibreOffice 3.4.5 for that.
The 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 note for Windows users: this Release Candidate will uninstall your
current stable build and replace it. If you do not wish this to happen
but still would like to test, you should follow the instructions for
installing in parallel:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
Should you find bugs, please report them to the FreeDesktop Bugzilla:
A good way to assess the RC3 quality is to run some specific manual
tests on it, our TCM wiki page has more details:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Regression_Tests#Full_Regression_Test
(and the announcement mail: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-December/022464.html)
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_3.5
or help with funding our operations:
http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/
A list of known issues with 3.5.0 RC3 is available from our wiki:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.5.0/RC3
Please find the list of changes against LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC2 here:
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 Document Foundation Board of Directors