The first release of the 3.4 series, LibreOffice 3.4.0, is targeted to community members and power users, and should not be implemented in a corporate environment.
To upgrade LibreOffice open a terminal window (press Alt+F2 and type: gnome-terminal) and copy+paste the following lines:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
to start LibreOffice press Alt+F2 and type: libreoffice
LibreOffice 3.4.0 offers several new features for Calc, with faster performances and an improved compatibility with Excel spreadsheets, and Pivot Table – the new name of DataPilot – with support for unlimited numbers of fields and named range as data source. The user interface of Writer, Impress and Draw has been improved with many new features, and several cosmetic changes have been applied to the Linux version, with a better text rendering engine and an improved GTK+ theme integration.
LibreOffice 3.4 can be downloaded from:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download.
A complete list of new features and fixes is available online at the following address:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/.
LibreOffice Homepage
The packages for the libreoffice ppa still need to be updated.. so please be patient and LibreOffice will be upgraded as soon as the packages are uploaded.