14 DAY TRIAL // Today, November 3, 2016, we've been informed by Italo Vignoli from The Document Foundation about the general availability of the third maintenance update to the LibreOffice 5.2 "Fresh" office suite series.
At the end of September 2016, the popular, open-source and cross-platform LibreOffice office suite celebrated 6 years of activity with the LibreOffice 5.2.2 release, and now we're already able to upgrade our installations to LibreOffice 5.2.3, which promises to address a total of 81 bug fixes reported by the community since then.
"The third minor release of the LibreOffice 5.2 family, representing the bleeding edge in term of features and as such targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters, and power users," reads the press announcement. "For all other users and especially for enterprise deployments, TDF suggests LibreOffice 5.1.6 'Still'."
Those of you curious to know what exactly has been changed in the LibreOffice 5.2.3 point release are invited to take a look at the internal changelogs for the first Release Candidate of LibreOffice 5.2.3, which contains most of the fixes, as well as for the RC2 and RC3 development milestones for the rest of the improvements.
LibreOffice 5.3 slated for release at the end of January 2017
While The Document Foundation still maintains both LibreOffice 5.1 "Still" and LibreOffice 5.2 "Fresh" branches, they are also working hard on the next major release, LibreOffice 5.3, which is currently slated for release at the end of January 2017. A first Alpha build was seeded to early adopters, and the Beta is coming at the end of November.
Also this month, The Document Foundation plans on unveiling a new user interface concept for LibreOffice, but you can already get a glimpse of what's coming to the major office suite release by checking out the new exciting features published on LibreOffice 5.3 Release Notes page, but they're not complete yet. In the meantime, you can download LibreOffice 5.2.3 right now for Linux, Mac, and Windows.