Thorsten Behrens of The Document Foundation has announced the first beta release of LibreOffice 4.1.0.
This will be the sixth major release of LibreOffice in two and a half years and comes with a set of attractive new features.
However, Behrens points out that LibreOffice 4.1 Beta1 is not ready yet for production use and that LibreOffice 4.0.3 should continue to be used, if stability is preferred to testing bleeding edge versions.
The release is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X from LibreOffice’s QA builds download page at http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/.
Any bugs should be reported to the FreeDesktop Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org.
A list of known issues and fixed bugs with 4.1.0 Beta1 is available on the LibreOffice wiki.