[ANN] LibreOffice 4.0.0 Beta2 available

Dear Community,

The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the second Beta release
of our upcoming LibreOffice 4.0, that is feature-complete. The
upcoming 4.0 will be our fifth major release in just over two years,
and comes with a nice set of new features. Please be aware that
LibreOffice 4.0 Beta2 is not ready for production use, you should
continue to use LibreOffice 3.6.4 for that.

For further milestones towards 4.0, please refer to our release plan
timings here:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/4.0#4.0.0_release

The release is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X from our QA
builds download page at

  http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/

Should you find bugs, please report them to the FreeDesktop Bugzilla:

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org

A good way to assess the release candidate quality is to run some
specific manual tests on it, our TCM wiki page has more details:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Regression_Tests#Full_Regression_Test

For other ways to get involved with this exciting project - you can
e.g. contribute code:

  http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/developers/

translate LibreOffice to your language:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Localization_Guide

or help with funding our operations:

  http://donate.libreoffice.org/

A list of known issues and fixed bugs with 4.0.0 Beta2 is available
from our wiki:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.0.0/Beta2

Let us close again with a BIG Thank You! to all of you having
contributed to the LibreOffice project - this release would not have
been possible without your help.

Yours,

The Document Foundation Board of Directors

The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint

Hi,

4.0.0 Beta2 binary (rpm) can not start on Slackware64-14.0.

How to reproduce:

1) download http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/4.0.0/rpm/x86_64/LibO-Dev_4.0.0.0.beta2_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

2) untar, remove unnecessary rpms, unpack rpms, make and install package:
# tar xf LibO-Dev_4.0.0.0.beta2_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz
# cd LibO-Dev_4.0.0.0.beta2_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US/RPMS
# rm *-gnome-integration-*rpm *-stdlibs-*rpm
# mv desktop-integration/*-freedesktop-*rpm .
# for FILE in *.rpm ; do rpm2cpio < $FILE | cpio -imdv ; done
# mkdir /tmp/package-lodev
# mv usr opt /tmp/package-lodev
# cd /tmp/package-lodev
# makepkg -l y -c y /tmp/lodev-4.0.0.b2-x86_64-1.txz
# upgradepkg --install-new /tmp/lodev-4.0.0.b2-x86_64-1.txz

3) start /opt/lodev4.0/program/soffice

Observed behavior: message box appears

Hello,

is there an Android app to control Impress, now that the Remote
Control function is enabled in Impress GUI? Where can I find it to
test LO? (The pop-up window for Remote does not have a Help button,
nor do I remember any hints from Help as I translated all the strings
already and there were no links; also I cannot close that dialog on
OSX 10.7.5, so I need to file a bug for that).

Thanks, m.

[limited x-posting]

Martin Srebotnjak wrote:

is there an Android app to control Impress, now that the Remote
Control function is enabled in Impress GUI? Where can I find it to
test LO? (The pop-up window for Remote does not have a Help button,
nor do I remember any hints from Help as I translated all the strings
already and there were no links; also I cannot close that dialog on
OSX 10.7.5, so I need to file a bug for that).

Hi Martin,

thanks a lot for looking into this - the Android App will be on a
slightly different release schedule, you can find daily builds for it
from the Android tinderbox here:

http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/Android-ARM@24-Bytemark-Hosting/current/

(the ImpressRemote apk)

Cheers,

-- Thorsten