[Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 3.5.5 RC1 available

[Fridrich Strba]

Dear Community,

The Document Foundation is happy to announce the first release
candidate of LibreOffice 3.5.5. The upcoming 3.5.5 will be the fourth
in a series of frequent bugfix releases on our feature-packed 3.5 code
line. Please be aware that LibreOffice 3.5.5 RC1 is not ready for
production use, you should continue to use LibreOffice 3.5.4 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/

A note for Windows users: this Release Candidate will uninstall your
current stable build and replace it. If you do not wish this to happen
but still would like to test, you should follow the instructions for
installing in parallel:

 http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel

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

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org

A good way to assess the RC1 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

 (and the announcement mail:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-December/022464.html)

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

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

translate LibreOffice to your language:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Translation_for_3.5

or help with funding our operations:

  http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/

A list of known issues with 3.5.5 RC1 is available from our wiki:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.5.5/RC1

Please find the list of changes against LibreOffice 3.5.4 here:


http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/bugfixes-libreoffice-3-5-5-release-3.5.5.1.log

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,

unworthy servant Fridrich in the name of

The Document Foundation Board of Directors