LibreOffice 5.0 Open-Source Office Suite Has Been Branched

LibreOffice 5.0 is the next version of this popular, cross-platform, open-source office suite and not LibreOffice 4.5 as was originally planned. LibreOffice 5.0 has now been branched in Git with the trunk development now focusing on LibreOffice 5.1.

As of a short time ago, LibreOffice 5.0 was branched from Git master. This now bumps Git master to LibreOffice 5.1.0.0.alpha1+.

Branching LibreOffice 5.0 now puts it under a hard feature freeze while the beta one release is to follow quite soon followed by a second LO 5.0 beta in early June. Four release candidates for LibreOffice 5.0 will come during June and July while the official release of LibreOffice 5 is still slated for the end of July or early August.

LibreOffice 5.0 is bringing Microsoft World compatible text highlighting, support for finally being able to crop an image with the mouse inside Writer, new functions have been added to Calc, various UI improvements, better HiDPI support, and much more. The tentative LibreOffice 5.0 release notes are available via this Wikipage.