[Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOfficeDev 4.3.0 beta1 test builds available

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi *,

for the upcoming new version 4.3.0 the builds for Beta1 are now
available on pre-releases. (some win helppacks still uploading)

It is a LibreOfficeDev build, meaning that it won't replace your
stable version of LibreOffice, but can be installed alongside
LibreOffice 4.2

Also note that while the build is also a key-ID build for translators,
and beta marks feature freeze, string and ui freeze are still to come.

Significant non-code-related change for 4.3.0 is an updated build
environment on Windows (Windows Server 2012R2 with Visual Studio 2012):
ATTENTION to users of Windows XP
** https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77891 still occurs.
LibreOffice crashes on Windows XP when it tries to initialize python -
this happens when spellcheck is activated or when you go to
Tools|Macros..
As a workaround, you can install cygwin and launch LibreOffice from
the cygwin shell. Then everything works as it should. (Other
workaround is to disable auto-spellchecking)

See

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/4.3#4.3.0_release

for the complete schedule.

Grab the builds from here here:

 http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/

The list of fixed bugs relative to 4.3.0 alpha1 is here:

http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/src/bugs-libreoffice-4-3-release-4.3.0.0.beta1.log

So playing with the areas touched there also greatly appreciated  -
and validation that those bugs are really fixed.

Thanks a lot for your help,
Christian