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On Monday, April 22, 2013 09:42:33 PM Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :) 
On my own machine at home and at work I think it is a good policy to
download and install new versions of new branches asap.  Preferably
even at beta-release stage (ie pre-release).  That allows me to test
out all the features i think i use and play around to see if it feels
alright. 

Then i can post bug-reports while the devs are still most keen and
most focussed on fixing things and smoothing it out.  It's not always
quick to fix but it helps the devs.  It might be really great if
people could test out a new branch at pre-release stage and then go
through some of the existing bug-reports to quickly see if they are
still a problem with the newer release.  That might really help the
devs. 

Of course on colleagues machines i stick with the stable branch.  Any
release after x.x.3 is much more stable, with x.x.6 being about as
rock-solid as it's possible to get. 

The question is are you happy to just sit&hope that someone else
happens to notice issues that you personally find crucial?  I'd
rather have an active say in pushing forwards things that i want to
see fixed. 

After having a test drive i can always reinstall the older version if
i need to/  "Simples" :) 

Errr, in the case of the 4.0.0 i got really lucky and found everything
i cared about just seems to work!  WooHooo :D Regards from
Tom :) 

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From: M Henri Day <mhenriday@gmail.com>

To: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Monday, 22 April 2013, 19:13
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to downgrade from 4.0.2. to
3.6.6


2013/4/22 Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>

Bill,

I hate to say it, but that was my experience as well with 4.0.
There was an important feature (to me at least) that worked well
on 3.6 but no longer worked in 4.0. I found the regression to be
especially distressing.

I simply uninstalled 4.0, and reinstalled 3.6. If I recall, the
uninstall process (I also use Win7) did not delete the 4.0 user
profile "users\(your user
name)\AppData\Roaming\**Libreoffice\4.0\etc, so I was able to copy
what I needed to the Libreoffice\3.0\etc. user profile after
installing 3.6.

I've decided to be more deliberate about upgrading in the future.
Study the release notes and check out bug reports. LO 3.6 works
very well for me, so I probably won't upgrade until the
latest/greatest has a feature I really need or fixes bugs that
have bothered me in the past.

Virgil

<...>

Bill and Virgil, it might be helpful to the developers if you could
point out the specific bugs/missing features, etc, that have been
causing you problems in 4.0....

Henri

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Do you have a link to the beta versions? I have the opensuse version of 
4.0.2 with latest update (yesterday) and 4.0.2 from LibreOffice parallel 
installed. Both had same two major problems for me since my cleints now 
usually send .docx documents and I do alot of table formatting with the 
number formatting columns, some of it doesn't work again. 

If I could get a hold of 4.0.3 and if it still has the problems I'll 
report them again as bugs.
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