


Very few minor releases have been made, and there have been issues with timely security updates too.įor an average user, if they don’t know about LibreOffice, I would definitely want them to know. That’s right – no significant new features or major updates have arrived in over six years.

It has a fascinating history, but since 2014, Apache OpenOffice (its current home) hasn’t had a single major release. OpenOffice(.org) – the “father project” of LibreOffice – was a great office suite, and changed the world. It does not sound promising and that is exactly what The Document Foundation highlights in their open letter: Now that there’s no significant development taking place for OpenOffice, what’s the future of Apache OpenOffice? A fairly active project with no major releases by the largest open source foundation?
