Mature, stable – and can rescue rescue corrupt files
The second LibreOffice release of 2024 is here, with additional spreadsheet functions, improved presentation layouts, better searching, and more.
LibreOffice 24.8 is the second release under the project’s updated version-numbering scheme. Similarly to Ubuntu, from the start of this year, The Document Foundation (TDF) now assigns new releases a year-plus-month tag, rather than a slowly incrementing decimal.
Version 24.2 succeeded last year’s version 7.6, and it’s still in maintenance. It’s up to 24.2.5 now, and is the current stable version, while 24.8 is the fresh new edition.
LibreOffice is the continuation of OpenOffice, and took over after OpenOffice 3.2 in 2010. That project is still lumbering along but has only put out four fresh versions since the split, still on version 4.1. TDF passed that number in 2013.
We last looked at LibreOffice this time last year, and this release isn’t vastly different – but then, neither are new versions of Microsoft Office these days.
