The Document Foundation today announced the general availability of LibreOffice 24.2.5 as the fifth point release to the latest LibreOffice 24.2 office suite series fixing more than 70 bugs.
Coming about five weeks after the LibreOffice 24.2.4 update, LibreOffice 24.2.5 is here to introduce more fixes for those annoying issues, bugs, crashes, regression, and other problems reported by users in the latest LibreOffice 24.2 series.
These fixes promise to further improve the overall stability and robustness of the office suite, as well as interoperability with legacy and proprietary document formats. In numbers, the LibreOffice 24.2.5 point release addresses a total of 78 bugs. Details about these bugs are available in the RC1 and RC2 changelogs.
LibreOffice 24.2.5 is available for download as official binaries for DEB and RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions from the official website , packaged by the LibreOffice developers. If your LibreOffice 24.2 office suite is installed from your distro’s software repositories, you’ll have to wait until the 24.2.5 release arrives there to update.
LibreOffice 24.2 was released on January 31st, 2024. It introduced major changes such as a new calendar-based version numbering scheme, new security and accessibility features, as well as improved interoperability with the MS Office suite of apps.
LibreOffice 24.2 will be supported with a total of seven maintenance updates until November 30th, 2024. The next point release, LibreOffice 24.2.6, is planned for early September 2024. Until then, The Document Foundation plans to release the next major release, LibreOffice 24.8, sometime in August 2024.
The Document Foundation reminds us that this is the “Community” edition of LibreOffice, supported by volunteers. For enterprise-class deployments, they recommend the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners.
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