IT news website The H Online reports that The Document Foundation has announced the release of the first beta of version 4.0 of LibreOffice, the free and open source office suite for Linux, Windows and MacOS.
The stable version of LibreOffice 4.0 is scheduled for release in February 2013.
The Document Foundation advises that this version should not be used for “mission-critical” jobs and the main purpose of the beta release is to find and report bugs, notify developers of regressions, confirm bugs already reported in 4.0 and verify existing bug fixes.
The main changes from previous releases are set out in the release notes.
For those interested in even more bleeding-edge binaries of our current development, The Document Foundation recommends checking out its nightly builds. However, these are are potentially even less suitable for productive work and come with the warning caveat emptor.