Two major Open Source applications have been updated in the last two days. The Mozilla development team released Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 to beta testers and everyone else who is interested in trying out the upcoming features of Firefox 3.1 before it is officially released.
The alpha versions of Firefox 3.1 Shiretoko / Gecko 1.9.1 introduces several new features and performance improvements. It also addds support for the HTML5 video element, CSS properties and dragging and dropping tabs between browser windows. The major feature of the release will be the performance gains.
Interested users can take a look at the release notes and download Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 for all supported operating systems.
The Open Office developers are a step ahead of the Firefox development team. They left the alpha phase and have released the first release candidate of Open Office. The release notes of this release are available online. The download is available for all supported operating systems.
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I hope that they make it into Ubuntu 8.10 next month though I doubt that they will.