14 DAY TRIAL // The Document Foundation has announced that the second Release Candidate version of LibreOffice 4.2.6 is now available for download and that users can test it.
The developers from The Document Foundation have multiple builds and they are used on various purposes. In this case, the 4.2.x branch of LibreOffice is used more for its stability and long life. If you want something that's more advanced, you can try the 4.3.x branch, which is also in development.
According to the changelog, a missing null pointer check in the RTF import function has been fixed, the external references are now kept intact during sorting, the wrong rendering of the bottom and right character borders has been fixed, an infinite loop that occurred during export has been fixed, .doc files no longer show large black rectangles between paragraphs, and a few other fixes have been implemented.
This is the development version and its makers provide Linux users with the source packages. If you are on an Ubuntu-based system, you have access to a PPA that will allow you to install and test this latest release. Be careful though, as you will have to purge this PPA when the final release hits the repositories.
Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.
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