LibreOffice 3.6.0 Final released with a wealth of new features and improvements

LibreOffice 3.6.0 Final is now available for download. This is the fourth major release of the best free office suite ever, which provides a large number of new features and incremental improvement over the previous versions. Innovations range from invisible features such as improved performance and interoperability to the more visible ones such as user interface tweaks, where theming has improved to more closely match current design best-practice.

Wherever you look you see improvements: a new CorelDRAW importer, integration with Alfresco via the CMIS protocol and limited SharePoint integration, color-scales and data-bars in spreadsheet cells, PDF export watermarking, improved auto-format function for tables in text documents,, high quality image scaling, Microsoft SmartArt import for text documents, and improved CSV handling. In addition, there is a lot of contributions from the design team: a cleaner look, especially on Windows PCs, beautiful new presentation master pages, and a new splash screen.

A full list with screenshots is available here: New Features and Fixes in LibreOffice 3.6

Note: You can download, install and distribute LibreOffice freely, with no fear of copyright infringement.

Key Features and Advantages
LibreOffice includes Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base and Math. This is a feature-packed and mature desktop productivity package with some really great advantages:

LibreOffice is a feature-packed and mature desktop productivity package with some really great advantages:
  • It's free - no worry about license costs or annual fees.
  • No language barriers - it's available in a large number of languages, with more being added continually.
  • LGPL public license - you can use it, customize it, hack it and copy it with free user support and developer support from our active worldwide community and our large and experienced developer team.
  • LibreOffice is an Open Source community-driven project: development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community; you, too, can get involved and influence its future development.

LibreOffice gives you high quality:
  • The roots of LibreOffice go back 20 years. This long history means it's a stable and functional product.
  • Thousands of users worldwide regularly take part in beta testing of new LibreOffice versions.
  • Because the development process is completely open, LibreOffice has been extensively tested by security experts, giving you security and peace of mind.

LibreOffice is user-friendly:
  • You get a simple-to-use yet powerful interface that is easy to personalize - Microsoft Office users will find the switch easy and painless, with a familiar look and feel.
  • Compatible with all major competitors' file formats. You can easily import files from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and many other formats, and can easily save to Microsoft Office and other formats when needed.
  • LibreOffice is supported by a big worldwide community: volunteers help newcomers, and advanced users and developers can collaborate with you to find solutions to complex issues.

Download LibreOffice 3.6.0 Final (August 8th, 2012)
LibreOffice 3.6.0 Final is available for download at website listed below:

What's new in LibreOffice 3.6.0 Final
LibreOffice 3.6.0 is the first release from the 3.6 branch of LibreOffice. It contains many exciting new features, and of course can be deployed for production needs.

The following notes apply:
  • This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 3.6.0 Release Candidate 4, so you don't need to download or reinstall if you have that version already.
  • If you update from an earlier version, spellchecking might be broken. In this case, the following workaround helps:
    • On Linux, in a terminal window enter "rm -r ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user/extensions"
    • On Mac OS X, in a Terminal window enter "rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/LibreOffice/3/user/extensions"
    • On Windows, in a Command Prompt window enter "rmdir /q /s %appdata%\LibreOffice\3\user\extensions"
    • After that, please restart LibreOffice twice.
  • The distribution for Windows is an international build, so you can choose the user interface language that you prefer. Help content is available via an online service, or alternatively as a separate install.
  • Our Windows binaries are digitally signed by The Document Foundation.
  • For Windows users that have LibreOffice prior to version 3.4.5 installed, either uninstall that beforehand, or upgrade to 3.4.5. Otherwise, the upgrade to 3.6.0 may fail.
  • For Windows users that have OpenOffice.org installed, we advise uninstalling that beforehand, because it registers the same file type associations.
  • If you run Windows 2000, you may require this update before being able to install LibreOffice.
  • If you run Linux, the GCJ Java variant has known issues with LibreOffice, we advise to e.g. use OpenJDK instead.
  • A full list of annoying bugs is available from the wiki.

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