14 DAY TRIAL // A few minutes ago, August 31st, The Document Foundation company unleashed the third maintenance release of the LibreOffice 3.4 open source office suite software for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms, bringing several bugfixes.
LibreOffice 3.4.3 is here to fix various important bugs found in the previous releases. Fixes include bugs found in the Calc, Impress, Writer, SDK, and the core libraries of LibreOffice.
LibreOffice 3.4.3 is available for download now (see download links at the end of the article), for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. As usual, this is a more stable release than the previous versions and everyone is encourage to update as soon as possible.
The next update to the popular open source office suite, LibreOffice 3.4.4 will be available for download on October 5th, 2011, 5 weeks from now. Moreover, LibreOffice 3.4.5 will be available on November 23rd and LibreOffice 3.4.6 will be available on February 22nd, 2012, being the last maintenance release of LibreOffice 3.4.
"TDF maintains two editions of LibreOffice to satisfy the needs of a large and diverse user base, although we strongly recommend everyone to update to the 3.4 series in the near future."
"LibreOffice 3.4.2 has already been deployed by users at Itaipu Binacional in Brazil, the largest electrical power plant in the world, and has been key for the launch of a large migration project involving 25,000 desktops by Copenhagen hospitals in Denmark." - was stated in this morning's press release.
Highlights of LibreOffice 3.4.3:
· ability to work with and import SVG files; · import filter for Lotus Word Pro documents; · import filter for Microsoft Works documents; · easily format title pages and numbering in LibreOffice Writer; · enhanced Navigator Tool in LibreOffice Writer; · better ergonomics for cell and sheet management in LibreOffice Calc; · PDF import support; · slide-show presenter console; · better report builder; · comes bundled with lots of great extensions.
We remind everyone that The Document Fundation community and LibreOffice developers will gather in Paris, France, for the first LibreOffice Conference, an event that will take place between October 12th and October 15th. For more information please check the official page.
In order to improve the collaboration between The Document Foundation and corporate users of LibreOffice, the LibreOffice community will host the Hackfest 2011 together with the Linux Migration Project of the city of Munich in Germany, next week from September 2nd to September 4th. More info here.
Download LibreOffice 3.4.3 sources and Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, Fedora, OpenSuSE, Mandriva binary packages right now from Softpedia.
Download LibreOffice 3.4.3 executable for Windows right now from Softpedia.
Download LibreOffice 3.4.3 packages for Macintosh right now from Softpedia.