14 DAY TRIAL // The Document Foundation has kicked off today the second bug hunting session for the upcoming LibreOffice 6.2 open-source office suite update, which is coming early next year with numerous improvements and some new features.
Expected to arrive next year on February, LibreOffice 6.2 will be the second semi-major update to the LibreOffice 6 office suite series, bringing a bunch of enhancements and new features to make your daily office tasks easier and more enjoyable. One of these new features is an optional UI design called the Notebookbar.
The Notebookbar UI is included in the beta version of LibreOffice 6.2 if you want to take it for a test drive (details below), along with the KDE Plasma 5 integration and numerous other improvements we talked about in a previous article. Of course, LibreOffice 6.2 will also include lots of stability and reliability updates.
Second LibreOffice 6.2 bug hunting session takes place on November 19
The second LibreOffice 6.2 bug hunting session is taking place as we speak, today, November 19th, 2018, from 7 AM UTC to 9 PM UTC via the IRC channel #libreoffice-qa or the Telegram bridge for the first beta version of the upcoming release, which is now available to download for Linux, Mac, and Windows platforms.
Of course, if you can't make it, you'll be able to join the said IRC channel and help with the bug hunting on other days as the LibreOffice 6.2.0 Beta builds will be available until mid-December 2018, which you'll be able to run on your computer alongside the current stable version of the office suite.
"During the day there will be two dedicated sessions, one about the new KDE5 integration between 11 AM UTC and 13 PM UTC and the other about the tabbed notebookbar from 15 PM UTC to 17 PM UTC, which is not experimental anymore," said Mike Saunders in a recent announcement.