LibreOffice 3.4 introduced several new features including unity and global menu support, font previewing, Cairo text subpixel rendering, and optimizations that make the software launch faster and use less memory. Code was cleaned up by removing duplicate icons, converting text encoding to a separate library to save RAM, fixing Linux fontconfig leaks, and removing unused code. LibreOffice 3.4 can also run in parallel with version 3.3 on Linux systems.

1. LibreOffice 3.4 NEW FEATURES Nguyen Vu Hung [email_address] 2011/05/27 A brief introduction On Open Day 2010 in Hanoi

2. Agenda UI Changes Unity and global menu support

3. Font Preview

4. Cairo Text Subpixel Rendering

5. (More) native menu Optimization

6. Parallelly Running

7. Code Cleanups

8. Unity and global menu support

9. Font Preview

10. Cairo Text Subpixel Rendering

11. Menu looks more native

12. File toolbar Hide by default

13. Show on Alt pressed (the MS way)

14. Startup faster

15. Remove 150 duplicated 'missing icon' icons Therefore, reduce bloats. Text encoding conversions to a separate library Saving 1Mb RAM. Linux fontconfig leak Saving 800K RAM. Graphite smart font rendering More stable and 10x faster (Writer) Optimization

16. On Linux, LO-3.4 can be installed in parallel with LO-3.3 Parallelly Running

17. Code Cleanups Remove stlport dependency across the code

18. Many thousands of lines of German comments

19. More than 5.000 lines of dead code removed

20. Cppcheck warnings fixes

21. References http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.4#LibreOffice_3.4_changes

22. http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/

23. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice