Just released today, you can find the release here.
The highlights of what is new in Beta 3:
What's New in IBM® Lotus® SymphonyTM 3 Beta3?
General Quality Improvements
- Improved ODF file fidelity to better support processing files which were generated by previous versions of Lotus Symphony
- Fixed key Mac OS specific stability, functional and usability bugs
- Fixed Lotus Symphony Presentation table functional and usability bugs
- Improved memory leak issue during long run of Lotus Symphony
- Fixed additional bugs on general stability, function, usability and Microsoft Office interoperability
- More VBA APIs are supported
- Ability to customize toolbar content and layout
- Enabled Sidebar panel management to show or hide sidebar panels
- More sidebar pages and sections containing new property controlling
- Spreadsheet cell appearance, including cell borders
- Graphic
- Word processor page settings, including margins
- More sidebar panels in presentation editor
- Color palette, eyedropper, image animation, and 3D effects
- Enabled Live Text support
- Enabled file encryption and password protection with Microsoft Word and Excel files
- Support for "Open in new window." Users can use Command+~ on Mac OS and Alt + Tab on XP/Vista to switch windows
- New clip art gallery
- More template files
- Enhancements in Accessibility support
- Enhancements in BiDi localization support
- Enhanced copy/paste interoperability between Lotus Symphony and Lotus Notes
- Document header and footer function enhancements and usability improvements
- Enabled multiple calculation in one sheet of the Lotus Spreadsheet editor, including mixed sort and filter, as well as multiple sort areas
- Enhanced the usability in manipulating color property with new color picker controls
- Fixed Audio/video related defects and enhanced the user experience
- Enabled new progress bar to launch and load/save files
- Refined main menu and toolbar contents
- Enabled sorting instant filters in Lotus Spreadsheet
- Disabled Autosave during Lotus Presentation slide show to avoid the unexpected interruption
- Added one click link to LotusLive website on homepage
- Various additional user experience enhancements
- Significant enhancement in online help content and structure
- Please refer to this link for Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2 Release Notes
Key Bug Fixes
Symphony Forum defects
- Japanese characters overlap with English characters which is caused by incorrect text parsing in presentations.
- When the Lotus Symphony window is in front and active, the standard keyboard media keys on certain laptops do not work.
- When opening a sample document which in essence is a XML Form document in Lotus Symphony, the contents are read-only.
- The floating windows in Lotus Symphony go behind the main window when you move cursor focus to the main window.
- Open any presentation document in Lotus Symphony. Resize the screen in the System Preferences, and then switch back to Lotus Symphony. You cannot click any elements in the editor.
- The mouse cursor position is incorrect when using a secondary monitor on Mac.
- In Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets,dragging a sheet tab does not work on Mac.
- When you move the mouse pointer over one of the sidebar boundaries, it does not change to a drag or move pointer to show that the sidebar can be re-sized.
- If a document contains DIYMJ0120 font, Lotus Symphony crashes when opening the document.
- When working in a multi-page document, the cursor may jump back to the first page.
- Open a Microsoft Word document which has a table with text wrap around it, the table cannot be displayed correctly.
- Create one document in ODF 1.1 format, which has grouped connector objects. Lotus Symphony crashes when opening the document.
- Open some presentation files which contain polygon graphics with line properties in Lotus Symphony. The polygon graphics cannot be displayed in screen show.
- Create a presentation in Lotus Symphony and add some shape and connector objects.Then save the file and reopen it in Lotus Symphony. It's very hard to select the connectors.
- Pie chart does not display when the Microsoft Office PowerPoint file is opened in Lotus Symphony.
- Lotus Symphony crashes when modifying "Text Animation" to "Group text->As one object".
- Insert a chart in Slide Master View, press Esc and close the file. Lotus Symphony freezes.
- Empty line appears when deleting rows in DataPilot source area.
- When you attempt to re-install Lotus Symphony of the same version, you will get an error message and cannot continue to install.
- Paste an image from Lotus Notes to Lotus Symphony 1.3 document, and then save it. Open the document in Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 3,the image is invisible.
- Lotus Symphony crashes when double-clicking to edit formula in an equation.
- Create a file which includes a table on Mac, and then open it on Windows,the table becomes higher and out of the page.
- Lotus Symphony cannot open the files with the name containing %20.
- The pictures of link objects in Microsoft documents are lost when loading the documents in Lotus Symphony.
- Lotus Symphony cannot be launched by the shortcut icon after upgrade with the Symphony preload icon displaying.
- Lotus Symphony crashes when clicking Tools->Macros->Run Macros.