User:Jesus Presley/sandbox/LibreOffice Version History

Version 3.3
LibreOffice 3.3.0 Beta 1, which was based on the beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.3, was made available on 28 September 2010 and was downloaded over 80,000 times. The first stable version of 3.3 was released on 25 January 2011. Because The Document Foundation and most of the software's new and former developers considered LibreOffice a direct continuation of OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice 3.3 continued the OpenOffice.org version numbering.

LibreOffice 3.3 features several functions not found in its OpenOffice.org counterpart, mainly as a result of Sun and then Oracle's requirement of assignment of copyright to themselves. Most of the features found in the 3.3 release were directly adapted from several already-created plugins, as well as the Go-oo fork.

Version 3.4


Version 3.4.0 was released on 3 June 2011. Early versions of v3.4 contained some bugs, including compatibility issues with Microsoft Office, and was therefore only recommended as suitable for early adopters. By 3.4.2, the release was considered suitable for enterprises.

Version 3.5
Version 3.5 was released on 14 February 2012. LibreOffice can now be installed via a  Windows Installer. Another major improvement is the new online update checker. By default, this feature is not yet fully automated.

Version 3.6
With version 3.6, released on 8 August 2012, many import and export features were introduced. . Furthermore, Calc now supports color scales and data bars.

Version 4.0
Version 4.0 was released on 7 February 2013. . The release plan is defined to (at least) version 4.0.6 in October 2013.

Version 4.1
Version 4.1 was released on 25 July 2013 (Public beta on 26 May 2013 ). This release incorporates more than thousand bug fixes and improvements, including a fix for OOXML handling bugs that caused a crash in Writer. As the first large UI change since forked from OpenOffice.org, a new sidebar feature is introduced. Version 4.1 will also be able to handle older Mac formats applications such as MS Word for Mac, Write Now, MacWrite Pro and AppleWorks. Support of obsolete text layout engines has been dropped in favor of Core Text for OSX and HarfBuzz for Linux.

The final release is planned for the end of July 2013. .

Version 4.2
LibreOffice 4.2 is scheduled to be released in February 2014. Some changes will happen in Writer and Draw, concerning UI and Import/Export abilities. Also, Calc will be able to access data from online documents.