The Document Foundation has announced a few minutes ago, July 13th, that the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming LibreOffice 3.6 office suite is available for download and testing.

LibreOffice 3.6.0 RC1 is here to fix exactly 19 bugs found in the previous Beta release. A detailed changelog can be found here.

The development cycle of LibreOffice 3.6.0 will continue with two more Release Candidates, which will be available for testing by the end of this month.

The stable release of LibreOffice 3.6 will see the light of day on the first week of August 2012.

Download LibreOffice 3.6.0 RC1 sources, as well as Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, Fedora, OpenSuSE, Mandriva binary packages right now from Softpedia. Also, visit our brand-new LibreOffice Extensions section.

Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.