14 DAY TRIAL // The Document Foundation announced the availability of the second Release Candidate (RC) milestone towards the LibreOffice 6.1 open-source office suite release.
Coming only two weeks after the first Release Candidate, LibreOffice 6.1 RC2 (Release Candidate 2) is here to fix more of those annoyances and bugs that might block the final release. A total of 84 bugs have been squashed across various components in LibreOffice 6.1 RC2 compared to the first Release Candidate.
While LibreOffice 6.1 is on track for its mid-August release, the development team still needs your help to test these Release Candidate versions and report any bugs or issues you may encounter, or just give positive feedback if everything works well for you during testing.
"As you might know, LibreOffice 6.1 will be released as final in mid-August, 2018, and the Release Candidate 2 is just one release away from the final release, being the Release Candidate 3 (RC3) the last one," reads the blog announcement.
LibreOffice 6.1 RC2 is available for download now
If you want to help The Document Foundation further polish the LibreOffice 6.1 release, which promises to introduce more enhancements and new features our beloved office suite, you can download LibreOffice 6.1 RC2 for GNU/Linux, Mac, and Windows right now. Bugs can be reported here.
The next step in the development cycle of LibreOffice 6.1 is the third and last Release Candidate (RC) build, which is expected to hit the streets early next month in case there are some remaining issues that need to be fixed. If not, the final release of LibreOffice 6.1 should arrive in the week of August 6, 2018.
After its mid-August release, LibreOffice 6.1 will be supported for the next nine months, until May 29, 2019, when it reaches end of life. A total of six maintenance updates are planned for the LibreOffice 6.1 series almost monthly, and the first one is expected to land at the end of August 2018.