[ANN] LibreOffice 3.6.0 RC1 available

Dear Community,

The Document Foundation is happy to announce the first release
candidate of LibreOffice 3.6.0. The upcoming 3.6.0 will be our fourth
major release in two years, and comes with a nice set of new
features. Please be aware that LibreOffice 3.6.0 RC1 is not ready for
production use, you should continue to use LibreOffice 3.5.5 for that.

The release is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X from our QA
builds download page at

  http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/

The (still growing) list of features for the upcoming 3.6.0 is on our
wiki - please help filling gaps there, e.g. by providing more
screenshots:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.6

Should you find bugs, please report them to the FreeDesktop Bugzilla:

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org

A good way to assess the release candidate quality is to run some
specific manual tests on it, our TCM wiki page has more details:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Regression_Tests#Full_Regression_Test

(and the announcement mail: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-December/022464.html)

For other ways to get involved with this exciting project - you can
e.g. contribute code:

  http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/developers/

translate LibreOffice to your language:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Translation_for_3.5

or help with funding our operations:

  http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/

A list of known issues and fixed bugs with 3.6.0 RC1 is available
from our wiki:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.6.0/RC1

Please find the list of changes against LibreOffice 3.6.0 Beta3 here:

  http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/bugfixes-libreoffice-3-6-release-3.6.0.1.log

Let us close again with a BIG Thank You! to all of you having
contributed to the LibreOffice project - this release would not have
been possible without your help.

Yours,

The Document Foundation Board of Directors

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