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LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6

by profwalkstr on 8/22/23, 9:49 PM with 208 comments

  • by KronisLV on 8/23/23, 6:16 AM

    > LibreOffice developers are moving to a year.month based versioning system.

    The full year might be nicer, but personally I like this idea - it immediately let's you know how old of a version (or its initial feature set, in the case of LTS) you have installed.

    For example, in the case of Ubuntu or Unity (the engine) you can tell what you're looking at, at a glance.

  • by kwijibob on 8/22/23, 11:05 PM

    They are going to deeply regret going with two digits year codes. ;)

    So amazed at how Libreoffice just keeps on keeping on.

    Such a great free open source suite to keep on every machine. Even if it is just a fallback to Google Docs/Sheets.

  • by actionfromafar on 8/22/23, 10:29 PM

    Will someone turn off the lights at OpenOffice? It's so sad.

  • by jokoon on 8/22/23, 10:26 PM

    I learned that I can just add a picture in a PDF with libreoffice draw, which is a thing that cannot be done with pdf.js yet.

  • by cheaprentalyeti on 8/22/23, 10:14 PM

    They could do like Slackware and go to version 13.37...

  • by 2Gkashmiri on 8/23/23, 3:47 AM

    When the whole discussion of "libreoffice for personal use" came up, I found out that the foundation, libreoffice foundation DOES NOT HIRE DEVELOPERS. Due to some stupid German laws, that would equate to competing with for profit orgs.

    Any donation you do to foundation is for "conferences and stickers".

    There are only free volunteer developers and paid orgs like collabora.

  • by jsight on 8/22/23, 10:35 PM

    Is LibreOffice still commonly used? It seems like much of the world has shifted to cloud offerings.

  • by eviks on 8/24/23, 4:04 AM

    Since recency and scale of difference are the two most important factors, why not use a combination of date and marketing" major/minor version instead of opting into either one of the other?

  • by hulitu on 8/23/23, 3:49 PM

    > LibreOffice developers are moving to a year.month based versioning system.

    Great. Now the next logical step is having the file format in sync with every release and to give up backward compatibility.

    And a ribbon is more modern, no scrollbars, flat everything and dark theme by default.

    And no bug fixes, only rewrites. /s

  • by clever-leap on 8/23/23, 7:19 AM

    I moved to SoftMaker office years ago, much lighter, more polished.

  • by hn8305823 on 8/23/23, 1:58 PM

    Great, now change the name so it doesn't sound like something that came out of a Central American revolution.

    Great product, terrible name.

  • by badrabbit on 8/23/23, 5:41 AM

    They should really follow MS and go web on this. Have a local electron app for offline users but have the same code base for self-hosted cloud or their own paid/supported cloud office offering.

  • by isaacremuant on 8/22/23, 10:05 PM

    Clickbait title but makes sense. Yearly versioning.

    Edit: -4. Touchy HN lately. You can diss Unix with toxicity but suggesting a clearly clickbait (hide the actual summarizing headline in favor of "you will be surprised by this big change") is a big no-no.