The Document Foundation updates LibreOffice Community to 7.1.1
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/03/05/libreoffice_7_1_1/
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The fixes lurk in the Community edition of LibreOffice, aimed squarely at enthusiasts and early adopters. The Document Foundation (TDF) [2]would much prefer biz customers sign up for something from the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications, with "long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features and Service Level Agreements" for a fee.
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The 90 or so fixes deal with a wide variety of niggles that came as part of the 7.1 release. Notable resolved issues include a regression that resulted in a crash when undoing a paste under certain circumstances, and a pesky enter character that could find its way into the input boxes of CALC after copying from a cell and pasting. Minor, for sure, but maddening if one was afflicted by it.
More serious problems dealt with include a borked print range when CALC files with external links are saved and reopened and some full-on crashes around the COUNTIF function.
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A pair of release notes document the rest of the fixes [5]here and [6]here .
While the usual Windows, Mac and Linux builds can be downloaded (although the more cautious penguinistas might wait until the repos of their preferred distributions get an update), the proviso for fans of Windows ARM64 still applies: "It's in early development and has some known limitations."
A glance at the [7]daily build suggests that enthusiasts might be better off rolling their own for the time being.
The fixes are welcome, and are the first for the new Community (and volunteer supported) edition since TDF had its [8]latest whinge about some businesses nabbing the freebie version rather than "the version optimized for their needs."
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The update also comes a few weeks after TDF [10]celebrated its 9th anniversary . The bubbles, sadly, had to be virtual this year. ®
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[1] https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/03/04/libreoffice-711/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/04/libreoffice_71_released_with_user/
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[5] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.1.1/RC1
[6] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.1.1/RC1
[7] https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/
[8] https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/03/libreoffice-7-1-community/
[9] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/applications&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YEK4CYiEPCBNwZkgrBihBwAAAIk&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[10] https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/16/tdf-9th-anniversary/
[11] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
That is exactly what community edition is for
It is a stable, free version of the software which does not get many, many years of long-term support for each major release. However, when compared to Office 365, even the community version of LibreOffice looks like long term support. Most people really don't need to pay for it, ever.
However, if you choose to buy Collabora Office (one of many LibreOffice Enterprise suites) you get the benefit of tech support and many, many years of LTS patch support like the good old days for something like £15/user/year, which is cheaper than both Microsoft Office 365 and old perpetual volume licensed versions of Microsoft Office 2013/2016. When combined with a simple IMAP server and a decent e-mail software like eM Client, one can have a much cheaper and more productive time for a fraction of the cost.
Thanks in a large part to the UK Government, Microsoft has committed to maintaining full compatibility with OpenDocument formats, meaning people can use LibreOffice with confidence these days and abuse an old Office 2013 license for conversions in the rare cases that LO can't handle it.
"The fixes lurk in the Community edition of LibreOffice, aimed squarely at enthusiasts and early adopters"
"The Document Foundation (TDF) would much prefer biz customers sign up for something from the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications"
And yet I am neither of those things.
1) I am hardly enthusiastic. I hate having to use office software
2) Early adopter... hardly, I cringe every time my package manager has updated packages and keep them held for as long as possible.
3) As part of my professional work, I don't really deal with office documents either. So certainly not a biz customer.
I suspect this is all just lies and that LibreOffice "Community" is in fact just for normal people to use like normal software and just get on with their lives.