Just did zypper up and that updated libreoffice and now there is no ‘beta’ on libreoffice splash… 
Great, when updating I saw the “3.3” come along.
It looks like it’s still beta on the LibreOffice website. Unless the build service is ahead of the upstream development, I’d guess this is an oversight.
Yep; upstream says:
This beta release is not intended for production use!
but in 11.4 M4 it is replacing OO completely. So there is at least a good reason to remove the “Beta” tag when you include it as a main app in the distro (which is Beta too …)
Not really.
There’s is a good reason to include beta software in the beta releases of the distro. Given the expected release windows of LibreOffice 3.3 and openSUSE 11.4, there were no plans to include OpenOffice 3.2.1…it was going to be [Something]Office 3.3. Ideally, milestones contain the same software that the final release will have…even if that software itself is pre-release code. Still, there’s no need to arbitrarily remove the “beta” tag from beta software. It doesn’t matter how critical the software is, or what it’s replacing. The user should know its status in the eyes of its developer(s).
Anyway, this showed up in my zypper today.
v | LibreOffice-Testing | libreoffice | 3.2.99.3-12.1 | 3.3.0.1-13.1 | x86_64
So the version number seems to suggest a move away from Beta to at least Release Candidate status.
I remember a prior release being shipped in the distro as final around x.y.z.4 (such as 3.2.0.4).
We’ll see if an announcement is made in the next day or two.
In the “About LibreOffice” there’s nothing beta anymore. I wouldn’t think the openSUSE packagers changed that, I just think they had there packages ready earlier than the LibreOffice people. Happens once in a while with the KDE releases as well.
After updating to 3.3.0.1, in order to stop it failing on start-up, I had to
rename my home .libreoffice folder so that it could be recreated. I don’t
know whether this was due to the update or me having to switch from openSUSE
11.4 version to 11.2. In any case, the cure is simple if anyone else
encounters the same problem.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
E-mail: “newsman”, not “newsboy”
LibreOffice: http://www.documentfoundation.org/
So does that mean LibreOffice will be the default in 11.4?