A new version of the best office suite has been made available

Feb 27, 2014 09:10 GMT  ·  By

The Document Foundation has announced that the first Release Candidate version for LibreOffice 4.2.2 is now available for all platforms.

Shortly after launching a new important stable build of the best office suite on Linux, LibreOffice, the developers from The Document Foundation have pushed a new version, in a new branch.

As usual, there are a lot of minor improvements for the office suite, and most of them are internal fixes that are not all that visible for the regular users, but some of them are actually interesting.

For example, painting SVG page background is now possible, auto styles from unmodified sheets are no longer skipped, the suite now checks if the “document” is closing and not the “app,” note copying is now working correctly, and the RTF has been fixed and improved.

If you are running an Ubuntu-based system, you will be able to get the new version of LibreOffice from the official PPA. This being said, you need to be careful because you can't have a stable and a development release installed and running at the same time.

Open a terminal and enter the following commands (keep in mind that you will have to remove libreoffice-core and you will need root access):

sudo apt-get purge libreoffice-core sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-prereleases sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libreoffice The Document Foundation also provides the sources, if you want to compile your own version.

Download LibreOffice 4.2.2 RC1 for Linux Download LibreOffice 4.2.2 RC1 for Windows Download LibreOffice 4.2.2 RC1 for Mac OS X 

Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.