Is there any problem with Libreoffice7?

vladimir1986 · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2010 Posts: 74

Hey there. This question is something that I have been wondering since I had to emerge LibreOffice and noticed it is still at 6.4

I am using ~AMD64 so to my understanding I have quite up to date packages, and generally it is true.This is not the case for LibreOffice, since 7.0 came out a month ago. Oddly enough I can' t find overlays that offer it.

I assumed it just takes a bit long to update to 7, but then today I saw a release update for 6.4...

Is in there any practical practical reason for 7 not being offered, or it is just some sort of security issue? I really can live and happily use 6.4, but I am curious to know if there is any reason for this, so please, don't take this like a rant

Chiitoo · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2020 11:57 am Post subject: ><)))°€

I'm guessing it's mainly due to the fact that the current version 6 releases are considered "stable" by upstream (or "still" as they name them now), while version 7 is "fresh" (I guess kind of like "unstable", which gets new features but also has had less testing and comes with the high possibility of new bugs).

See also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/739134
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asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8942

Java is the problem, see blocker.

figueroa · Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 9:50 pm Post subject:

I've downloaded the "basic" (English only) "fresh" (vs. "still" stable new version but not the daily image) AppImage of LibreOffice 7.0.1.2 to a flash drive. Looks nice. When run from terminal show no errors. 252 MB. Faster than I expected. It keeps it's separate configuration in .config/libreoffice/7.0.1 which is nice. Has been .config/libreoffice/4 forever. I've only really looked at it briefly.

Lots of release notes at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.0
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