[ANN] LibreOffice 4.1.0 Beta2 available

[thb]

Dear Community,

The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the second Beta release
of our new LibreOffice 4.1. The upcoming 4.1 will be our sixth major
release in two and a half years, and comes with a nice set of new
features. Please be aware that LibreOffice 4.1 Beta2 is not ready yet
for production use, you should continue to use LibreOffice 4.0.3 for
that.

For further milestones towards 4.1, please refer to our release plan
timings here:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/4.1#4.1.0_release

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/

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

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org

A good way to assess the release candidate 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

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

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

translate LibreOffice to your language:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Localization_Guide

or help with funding our operations:

  http://donate.libreoffice.org/

A list of known issues and fixed bugs with 4.1.0 Beta2 is available
from our wiki:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.1.0/Beta2

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

The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint

[Jean-Baptiste_Faure]

Hi,

Dear Community,

The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the second Beta release
of our new LibreOffice 4.1.

[...]

A list of known issues and fixed bugs with 4.1.0 Beta2 is available
from our wiki:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.1.0/Beta2

It seems that this wiki page has not been generated.

Best regard.
JBF

[k-jw]

Hi,

Hi,

Dear Community,

The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the second Beta release
of our new LibreOffice 4.1.

[...]

A list of known issues and fixed bugs with 4.1.0 Beta2 is available
from our wiki:

   http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.1.0/Beta2

It seems that this wiki page has not been generated.

I generated the page now. Please check and change the links and
put in the list of bugs.

[Bjoern_Michaelsen1]

Hi,

The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the second Beta release
of our new LibreOffice 4.1. The upcoming 4.1 will be our sixth major
release in two and a half years, and comes with a nice set of new
features. Please be aware that LibreOffice 4.1 Beta2 is not ready yet
for production use, you should continue to use LibreOffice 4.0.3 for
that.

For further milestones towards 4.1, please refer to our release plan
timings here:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/4.1#4.1.0_release

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/

and in:

https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-prereleases

you will find a very early packaging build for 4.1beta2 for Ubuntu saucy. The
Ubuntu PPA builders had trouble coping with the size of this build. To have a
build for testing at all multiple measurements had to be taken, the most
drastic being disabling Java and KDE. With the former also:
- disabling building the fancy new autopkgtests -- I ran them locally though
- make the libreoffice metapackage uninstallable as it depends on reportbuilder
  (which depends on Java and thus is not build)
  run something like:
     apt-get install libreoffice-writer libreoffice-impress libreoffice-calc

I hate to make the beta public like this, but before getting no testing at all,
I push this out in the current state with a big red warning label.

Best,

Bjoern