libreoffice

Days ago, LibreOffice 3.6 was released, bringing a solid amount of new features, packed with minor yet relevant user interface tweaks, bundle of changes suitable for an up-to-date modern office experience.

Labeled as "Let's make some templates for LibreOffice", a LibreOffice initiative has been launched as a public call for templates, presenting itself as a public place where creative users have been summiting LibreOffice templates aimed at Impress, Writer, Calc and Draw.

LibreOffice 3.6 has been released as the fourth major release of the full-fledged powerful open-source office suite, introducing, along with a solid amount of under-the-hood changes, new interesting user interface tweaks and polish, bundle of features that are to deliver a more visually pleasant and stable, strengthened office tool.

What is new in LibreOffice 3.6?

LibreOffice 3.6 series has reached a release candidate stage, pre-release version mainly targeted for bug fixes and testing, testing that is to generate user feedback.

The in-progress 3.6 series introduces numerous minor yet relevant visual changes, as well as bug fixes, optimizations and speed improvements.

LibreOffice 3.5.5 has just been released, mainly as a bug fixes version aimed at both "regular" users and corporate environments.

Fixed crashes (related to style and formatting, RTF export, etc), various improvements (boost in speed when dealing with "massive" documents, optimized import process, etc) and numerous under-the-hood fixes and enhancements come to deliver a "tight", more stable office suite.

Weeks ago, LibreOffice launched an interesting CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, where, the creative users were to send splash screens to be used by LibreOffice.

June 29th 2012 has arrived, consequently, the "contest" has come to an end, furthermore, the developers have just launched a poll where users are to vote for their preferred only-one splash screen, an initiative that clearly exposes LibreOffice's complete openness not only on its code but just-as-important relevant visible changes.

LibreOffice is a powerful office suite that features built-in full-fledged tools, such as Impress, Draw, Calc, Writer, etc, tools with a specific functionality, that allow users to express documents, presentations, drawing, mathematical equations, etc via a "complete" office center, from where appropriate/needed "directions" are to be used.

LibreOffice 3.5.4 was released days ago, bringing numerous bug fixes and marking another meaningful version designed with stability in mind, nevertheless, the developers are simultaneously concerned about new polished visual additions, enhancements targeted for the upcoming LibreOffice 3.6.

LibreOffice is a full-fledged powerful open-source office suite that is installed in Ubuntu by default, providing a rich and complete experience to both beginners and professionals, nevertheless, there are vocal voices over the internets claiming that the "psychological" under-the-hood piece of LibreOffice has evolved tremendously in the last months, yet the "physical" visible piece has been (unintentionally) frozen, in the sense that it still delivers a visual experience similar (or even inferior) with proprietary office tools' located in the '90s.

LibreOffice 3.5.4 has been released, as the fifth version of the 3.5.x series, bringing noticeable performance improvements, as compared to its previous version.

The new 3.5.4 release features up to 100% performance enhancements (relative gain in accordance with the used hardware configuration, opened file content, etc), especially when dealing with large files due to "the efforts of a diverse and growing developer and QA community".