14 DAY TRIAL // The Document Foundation announced that LibreOffice 4.4.4 is now available for download and packs over 70 bugfixes. It's not the last one in the series, so expect to see more of these in the coming months.
The 4.x branch of LibreOffice is still the most advanced version that you can use right now, at least until the launch of the 5.x version. It's also quite stable, and after four updates you know you're getting something good. It's an office suite that's integrated by default in most Linux operating systems, so this update will probably hit a lot of users very soon.
Before you get too excited with a new LibreOffice release, you need to keep in mind that this is only for maintenance purposes, and it's all about bug fixing. You won't find any new features in 4.4.4, but as usual we recommend that you update the office suite as soon as it becomes available in the official repositories.
What's new in LibreOffice 4.4.4
"The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 4.4.4, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 4.4 family, with over 70 fixes over LibreOffice 4.4.3. The Document Foundation suggests deploying LibreOffice in enterprises and large organizations with the backing of professional support by certified people. Also, the LibreOffice community is actively working at next major release, LibreOffice 5.0, expected in early August 2015. After two successful bug hunting sessions, developers are putting the finishing touches to the software," is noted in the announcement.
As usual, the new LibreOffice will land in repositories across the world, but not at the same time. If you have an Ubuntu system, you can just add a PPA and get it that way. Enter these commands in a terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade