The Document Foundation, the organisation behind the free and open source LibreOffice office suite, has released version 4.0 suite. Even though the office package has not changed much visually from earlier releases, it includes several underlying improvements such as changes to the API, support for the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard and better import/export of Microsoft Office file formats.
The new release also includes some changes to the user interface, as well as a new feature – support for Firefox Personas themes (posts passim). An Android application allowing users to control an Impress presentation from a mobile phone is ready to be used with some Linux versions of LibreOffice (posts passim) and is expected to be released soon. LibreOffice developers are also working on bringing the feature to outstanding Linux versions of the suite, as well as its Windows and Mac OS X ports.
LibreOffice 4.0 is available for download Linux, Mac and Windows. Please consult the release notes for full details of changes since the last version release.