LibreOffice Upgraded to Version 3.5

Release of LibreOffice 3.5 has been announced by The Document Foundation (TDF) describing it as "the best free office suite ever".

Caolán McNamara, one of the founder and directors of TDF, stated, "We inherited a 15 years old code base, where features were not implemented and bugs were not solved in order to avoid creating problems, and this - with time - was the origin of a large technical debt."

The latest build has been stripped free of a lot of redundant code which it had inherited from its base - OpenOffice that resulted into stability issues. These issues have been resolved but, TDF recommends that any company who is willing to go for version 3.5 should enlist themselves for the professional support.

"We had two options: a conservative strategy, which would immediately please all users, leaving the code basically unchanged, and our more aggressive feature development and code renovation path, which has created some stability problems in the short term but is rapidly leading to a completely new and substantially improved free office suite", he added

Because of this, TDF believes that conservative users will still prefer the older 3.4 version over the 3.5 version.

The software's development work is still underway as the company has further plans to launch various version of this software for Apple iOS as well as Google's Android platform along with cloud platforms.