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[Software] LibreOffice 7.4 is EOL

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[Software] LibreOffice 7.4 is EOL

#1 Post by /usr/ »

According to the tracker, stable and stable-sec are both using 7.4.X branch.

Document Foundation has EOL'd 7.4 back in June 2023: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/Archive

Is there a reason why 7.6 is not published in main?
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Re: [Software] LibreOffice 7.4 is EOL

#2 Post by ruwolf »

2023-02-12 Debian 12 Bookworm had soft freeze.
2023-03-12 Debian 12 Bookworm had hard freeze.
2023-06-05 to 2023-06-11 LibreOffice 7.6 had hard feature freeze & branch.
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Re: [Software] LibreOffice 7.4 is EOL

#3 Post by cds60601 »

You could always have a look at backports
Appears to be 7.6
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Re: [Software] LibreOffice 7.4 is EOL

#4 Post by ruwolf »

It is even 24.2.0, newer than 7.6...
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Re: [Software] LibreOffice 7.4 is EOL

#5 Post by cds60601 »

From what I can make out - the 24.x series is more of a beta, or think of it as either a Testing or Unstable (like Debian)
Where the 7.x series is considered their version of Stable. So I would assume backports would be probably be either the newer 7.x line or possibly something from the 24.x line. I dunno.
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Re: [Software] LibreOffice 7.4 is EOL

#6 Post by pbear »

/usr/ wrote: ↑2024-05-04 03:26 Is there a reason why 7.6 is not published in main?
You understand the difference between stable and rolling release, right? Stable release works by having everything installed against the same code base. Rolling release gets current apps, at the expense of stability. Or you can get current apps in stable release by using Flatpak, Snap or AppImage, which have their own issues. In the middle, as mentioned, are backports. Or you can build from source.
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#7 Post by xuhdev »

I think the OP might have missed the point that many Linux distro that targets stability won't upgrade most softwares to newer versions with significant changes. Debian developers will backport serious bugs like security and data loss bugs to the 7.4 series.
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Re: [Software] LibreOffice 7.4 is EOL

#8 Post by None1975 »

You can install Libreoffice as flatpak.
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Re: [Software] LibreOffice 7.4 is EOL

#9 Post by alienspy »

I have downloaded their deb packages and installed them. Though there were a lot of them and it was long. 24.2 works fine.
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Re: [Software] LibreOffice 7.4 is EOL

#10 Post by craigevil »

24.2 is in Backports. Flatpak version is at 24.2.3.2

libreoffice:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1
Version table:
4:24.2.0-1~bpo12+1 100
100 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports/main arm64 Packages
4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1 500
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main arm64 Packages
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main arm64 Packages
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