LibreOffice 4.0 released

The Document Foundation has announced the release of version 4.0 of the LibreOffice free office suite. As might be guessed, there is a whole pile of new features in the release, including content and document management system integration, better DOCX support, performance improvements, Android-based remote control for Impress, and more. There has also been a great deal of change to the code base: "The resulting code base is rather different from the original one, as several million lines of code have been added and removed, by adding new features, solving bugs and regressions, adopting state of the art C++ constructs, replacing tools, getting rid of deprecated methods and obsoleted libraries, and translating twenty five thousand lines of comments from German to English. All of this makes the code easier to understand and more rewarding to be involved with for the stream of new members of our community."

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