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The Document Foundation launched LibreOffice 3.3.0 today, the first stable release of the community developed free office suite.

LibreOffice 3.3 brings some very interesting new features such as bundled extensions (which provide PDF import, a slide-sow presenter console and more), import and work with SVG files, an easy way to format title pages and their numbering in Writer, a more-helpful Navigator Tool for Writer, improved ergonomics in Calc for sheet and cell management and Microsoft Works and Lotus Word Pro document import filters.

LibreOffice 3.3
(working with SVG images in LibreOffice)

Libreoffice 3.3 screenshot
(bundled extension - Presenter View in Impress)


Download LibreOffice 3.3.0 | Official LibreOffice 3.3.0 release announcement

Note for Ubuntu users: You can install LibreOffice from an Ubuntu PPA; the LibreOffice PPA currently holds LibreOffice 3.3.0 RC4 for both Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick (LibreOffice is default in Natty) - but that's "bit-for-bit identical" to the final LibreOffice version (according to the release notes - thanks to Luigi Pezzotta for the info) so basically installing it you'll have the final version.


Image credits: libreoffice.org