Dear Community,
The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the first release
candidate 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 RC1 is not ready
yet for production use, you should continue to use LibreOffice 4.0.4
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
You can find a (work-in-progress) list of new features for 4.1 on this
page - please feel free to extend with stuff we've missed, or amend
text-only descriptions with nice screenshots:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1
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:
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 RC1 is available
from our wiki:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.1.0/RC1
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
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