Libreoffice 5.1.0 To Integrate OpenGL And Coverity Fixes

The Document Foundation has revealed the second Release Candidate for LibreOffice 5.1.0, the first major update for the 5.x branch of the famous office suite.

 

 

The Document Foundation has revealed the second Release Candidate for LibreOffice 5.1.0, the first major update for the 5.x branch of the famous office suite.
The LibreOffice developers are preparing for a major upgrade to the office suite, but that should not take anyone by surprise since they are following a schedule that's been known for some time. It's also worth noting that Reviews These kinds of big updates are usually preceded by a bug hunts sessions and they have at least three Release Candidates.
Even if it's the second Releases Candidate for this branch of LibreOffice, it's still pretty big and it incorporates a large number of fixes. Some of them are pretty important, but we can not help noticing that the first ones in the list are from Coverity, the famous company that specializes in software quality and security. They found some dead code, but that's not all that unusual for big projects such as LibreOffice.LibreOffice 5.1.0 RC2 is ready for testing

Installing On Ubuntu

If you have Ubuntu OS as daily activities, you can trying to update version or fresh installing. For installing you can type this command:


sudo apt-get purge-core LibreOffice

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: LibreOffice / LibreOffice-prereleases

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install LibreOffice

Or, if you was add repository on Ubuntu type simple command:


sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

On Slackware-current can't available on this version libreoffice 5.1.0, still on version 5.0.4.

According to the changelog, some PDF-related fixes have been implemented a, LibreOffice no longer crashes in headless mode, unchecking the blinking font effect now works with DOCX, opening an image from an HTTPS hyperlink no longer crashes the application, various OpenGL fixes have landed , the Function Wizard has been refined, the drag and zoom tool now works as intended, and many other fixes have been added.

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