LibreOffice 5.2 Officially Released (softpedia.com)

prisoninmate writes from a report via Softpedia: LibreOffice 5.2 is finally here, after it has been in development for the past four months, during which the development team behind one of the best free office suites have managed to implement dozens of new features and improvements to most of the application's components. Key features include more UI refinements to make it flexible for anyone, standards-based document classification, forecasting functions in Calc, the spreadsheet editor, as well as lots of Writer and Impress enhancements. A series of videos are provided to see what landed in the LibreOffice 5.2 office suite, which is now available for download for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Comments

Does anyone even use SO any more?

[Anonymous Coward]

Seems to me the office suite space is yet another area where the lofty rhetoric of the open source community have largely failed. No one I know actually uses it and a quick install of this new release shows me why. Holy crap what a dumpster fire this software is. A decade or more behind Microsoft Office in usability and functionality and much slower to do things like open files and switch between tasks. It fails to properly load almost all the Microsoft Office files I try and when I do the reverse (save a doc file in LO and try to load it in MO) it fails too. Well that's an hour of my life I'll never get back. Thanks again open sores!

Re: Star Office

[kamapuaa]

You don't actually use word processors, I'm guessing. LibreOffice can't even do the most basic formatting correctly, it's so brain dead. It's a fine free option for people who just need to write a letter a few times a year. For anything more, it's painful. I hate Windows but give Office its due, even a decade-old version of Office is far better than LO.