On 3 February, The Document Foundation announced the release of LibreOffice 7.1 Community, the volunteer-supported version of the office suite. The Community label emphasises the fact that the software is not targeted at enterprises, and not optimised for their support needs. Blog post with more information. For enterprise-class deployments, TDF has strongly recommended the LibreOffice …
Category: New LO releases
Nov 21 2020
LibreOffice 7.0
LibreOffice 7.0 was announced on 5 August 2020. Since then three minor releases have appeared. Significant new features include support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.3; better performance; and improved compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files. For details, see the blog post linked above. LibreOffice produced a visual timeline of derivatives from OpenOffice.org, as shown …
Aug 25 2019
LibreOffice 6.2.6 released
On August 14, 2019 The Document Foundation announced LibreOffice 6.2.6, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 6.2 family, targeted at users in production environments. All users of LibreOffice 6.1.x and LibreOffice 6.2.x versions should upgrade immediately for enhanced security, as the software includes both security fixes and some months of back-ported fixes. See their …
Aug 11 2019
LibreOffice 6.3 released
On 8 August 2019, The Document Foundation announced the release of LibreOffice 6.3, a feature-rich major release with better performance, a large number of new and improved features, and enhanced interoperability with proprietary document format: Writer and Calc performance has been improved by an order of magnitude based on documents provided by end users: text …
Aug 10 2018
LibreOffice 6.1 released
The Document Foundation has announced LibreOffice 6.1, with a significant number of new and improved features: Colibre, a new icon theme for Windows based on Microsoft’s icon design guidelines, which makes the office suite visually appealing for users coming from the Microsoft environment; A reworked image handling feature, which is significantly faster and smoother thanks …