Main points:

• The Document Foundation (TDF) announced LibreOffice 3.3, the first official stable release of the open source office suite.
• TDF was founded last year by a key group of OpenOffice.org (OOo) contributors to develop a community-driven fork.
• TDF has attracted a lot of enthusiasm from former OOo contributors and has corporate supporters like Google, Red Hat, Canonical, and Novell.
• LibreOffice 3.3 has new features like improved Lotus Word Pro and Microsoft Works import, SVG import/edit, and enhanced navigation and printing features in Writer and Calc.
• The developers focused on code clean-up to make the code easier to maintain and extend.
• Due to Linux community backing, LibreOffice will likely be bundled in major Linux distributions like Ubuntu 11.04.
• LibreOffice 3.3 is available for download from the project's official website and the source code is in the official LibreOffice version control repository.

Key information:

• TDF's founding reason was Oracle's failure to address OOo's governance problems and mismanagement.
• LibreOffice developers have incorporated improvements from OpenOffice.org 3.3.
• Calc spreadsheet size increased to 1 million rows.
• Linux community backing is significant.

Important details:

• Founded last year
• Attracted a lot of enthusiasm from former OOo contributors; Google, Red Hat, Canonical, and Novell are among its corporate supporters
• Improved features like Lotus Word Pro and Microsoft Works import, SVG import/edit, and updates in Writer and Calc navigation and printing
• Focus on code clean-up to reduce legacy cruft
• Planned for inclusion in Ubuntu 11.04
• Available for download at http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ and source code at http://www.documentfoundation.org/develop/