[ANN] LibreOffice 4.0.5 RC2 available

l10n
#1

Dear Community,

The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the second release
candidate of our upcoming LibreOffice 4.0.5. This will be the fifth in
a series of frequent updates to our feature-packed 4.0 branch. Please
be aware that LibreOffice 4.0.5 RC2 is not ready for production use,
you should continue to use LibreOffice 4.0.4 for that.

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

  - or checkout our manual test database for starting right away -

http://manual-test.libreoffice.org/runtests/

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/

The list of known issues and fixed bugs for 4.0.5 RC2 is available
from here:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.0.5/RC2

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, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, Germany
Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint

#2

and users of Ubuntu 13.04 (raring) find a build in the LibreOffice 4.0 ppa at:

https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-4-0?field.series_filter=raring

Best,

Bjoern

#3

Hi all,

Is there any reason why these PPAs only contain localisations into a select
few locales?

Best regards,
Mihkel

#4

Yes: The PPA builder do not have enough file system space to build more.

Best,

Bjoern

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
Ubuntu users can use the same resources as everyone else to get the full range of localisations.

Their PPA's are an additional resource but Ubuntu Users (such as me) could go to the main LibreOffice website (as i do) to get all the latest stuff.

I think there are even instructions somewhere although when i just had a quick look they weren't as obvious as i had hoped.  Apparently most instructions still sy to install the "desktop integration" packages afterwards but those have now been cleverly pulled into the main install so you don't have to do that 2nd part anymore.  It's just the help packages to get the in-built help and maybe the appropriate language pack.

So, don't worry too much about the PPAs but if reasonably possible please get them to signpost people to the official LibreOffice website.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

Hi, all,

Slovenian LO team has reported/confirmed two issues with the Ubuntu
packaging of LO already a year ago:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/957589
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1024886

We posted a warning and workaround for those two bugs (in Slovenian):
http://slolibre.blogspot.com/2012/07/slovenski-libo-na-ubuntu.html

Hope this helps someone,
m.