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The LibreOffice 3.6.3 is available for Linux, Windows and MacOS platforms and according to official sources, “This new release is another step forward in the process of improving the overall quality and stability for any kind of deployment, on personal desktops or inside organisations and across companies of any size.”

Florian Effenberger, chairman of the board, The Document Foundation, has requested LibreOffice users to support the foundation financially by generous donations: “If you enjoy LibreOffice, please donate and help us with our budget for 2013,” said Effenberger in his Google+ page.

After the Foundation's Hard Hacks initiative, several fixes in the third maintenance update to the 3.6. x group were introduced. The Hard Hacks programme was initiated to tackle complicated bugs in the software's code.