14 DAY TRIAL // The Document Foundation has released the first RC for the new LibreOffice 4.4.5 branch. It's a maintenance update for the entire 4.4.x branch and it's not the last one in the series.
Soon after LibreOffice 4.4.4 was released by the developers, a new RC has been released for a new version, and it looks like The Document Foundation is not wasting any time. The 4.4.x branch is the most advanced right now, but that won't be true for much longer. Soon, we'll have the 5.0 version, and the current iteration will only be around for maintenance purposes.
Just like the previous release, it's quite possible that only two RCs will be released. It would take a very special event to have more than two RCs, but you can never be too sure. In any case, it looks like nothing out of the ordinary happened with LibreOffice 4.4.5 RC1, so you're free to test it and provide some proper feedback.
What's new in LibreOffice 4.4.5 RC1
"The Linux and Mac packages can be installed in parallel to LibreOffice 4.3, but not run simultaneously - documents will be opened in the version you've started first," is noted in the official Wiki. Safe to say that you shouldn't use this on a production machine, and you shouldn't install neither the stable nor development versions at the same time.
According to the changelog, the inline picture for the DOCX installation should have no spacing, a crash in action after Undo has been fixed, some problems with with .svg exported from Calc charts have been fixed, a crash that occurred when opening a DOCX file has been fixed, opening an RTF file with bracketed \sub or \super in a footnote now works properly, and lot of other modifications have been made.
As usual, you can download LibreOffice 4.4.5 RC1 from Softpedia, but please keep in mind that you can just run it or compile it.