A brand new version of the free, open-source office suite LibreOffice is now available for download.<\/p>\n
The follow-up to last year’s LibreOffice 7.6, called LibreOffice 24.2, marks a significant change as it’s the first edition to use a calendar-based version number. The ’24’ stands for 2024, and ‘2’ for the month of February, similar to the versioning system for Ubuntu.<\/p>\n
The adoption of a date-based version number enables LibreOffice users to determine how updated their version is, a data point that was ambiguous with the previous versioning system.<\/p>\n
LibreOffice 24.2 brings six months worth of developments summarised in 5098 commits. This includes everything from bug fixes and security enhancements to UI adjustments, new features, and essential interoperability improvements.<\/p>\n
Start exploring the new version by downloading it here: LibreOffice 24.2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I expect you\u2019re keen to learn more, so read on to find out what\u2019s new in LibreOffice 24.2!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n We all know we should save our work often (true for anything, not just documents) but if something major happens before we can, automatic recovery is there to help.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/p>\n LibreOffice 24.2 Writer running in Ubuntu 23.10<\/p>\n<\/p>\n LibreOffice 24.2 enables AutoRecovery by default<\/strong> for new installations. The feature isn\u2019t new<\/a> but the default setting is. If you use an older version of LO stop reading and go enable it<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Users of the Notebook bar<\/em> layout (not enabled by default) will notice lots of buffs, including menu tweaks, better print preview, proper reset of customized layouts, and fewer \u201cjumps\u201d back to the Home<\/em> tab.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Informative tooltips were added to the \u201cInsert special character drop-down\u201d (the one in the toolbar, not the dialog version accessed from the insert menu). This displays character descriptions on hover.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n KDE Plasma users will be pleased to know that with this release, the LibreOffice UI qt5\/kf5\/VCL plugin will automatically shift to dark mode for all UI components (app, web, and icons) when the desktop settings have been set to the dark color scheme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Features included in LibreOffice 24.2 Writer include:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n DOCX interoperability<\/a> (only available at the moment)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n New features in LibreOffice 24.1 Impress & Draw apps:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n LibreOffice 24.2 Calc adds (pun, sorry):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Other changes worth knowing about:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n For more details on the changes above, plus lots more, read the LibreOffice 24.2 release notes<\/a>. Those are detailed, contain lots of screenshots, and provide links to various bug reports, code commits, and developer blog posts that shine more light on to specific changes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Password strength meter<\/p>\n<\/p>\n LibreOffice’s interoperability with Microsoft Office documents is one of its finest features. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Document Foundation observed that each new version of LibreOffice brings impressive progress, with version 24.2 following this trend. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n In particular, Writer in LibreOffice 24.2 has improved its capability of importing ‘drawing canvas’ elements from DOCX documents. It now imports connectors as true connectors, converts primitive shapes like ellipses into OOXML shapes, and adds support for multicolour gradients, theme colours and glow effects for shapes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The SVG OOXML extension is also enhanced to import an SVG image (from svgBlip element) over the fallback PNG as well as to export an SVG image along with a fallback PNG for older MS Office versions. Furthermore, first page headers\/footers import in Writer is now more intelligent. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n You can download LibreOffice 24.2 for Windows, macOS, and Linux directly from the LibreOffice website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n If you\u2019re on Ubuntu you may prefer to get this update from the LibreOffice PPA<\/a>, via Flathub<\/a>, or from the Canonical Snap Store<\/a> \u2014 though keep in mind that those avenues might not update to the latest release immediately, but it\u2019s rarely more than a day or two post-release.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n While the new features in LibreOffice 24.2 are worth upgrading for, don\u2019t feel obligated to if you don\u2019t think you\u2019ll use them. The LibreOffice 7.6 series (including Ubuntu 23.10) is maintained by The Document Foundation and continues to get back-ported fixes.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A brand new version of the free, open-source office suite LibreOffice is now available for download. The follow-up to last year’s LibreOffice 7.6, called LibreOffice 24.2, marks a significant change as it’s the first edition to use a calendar-based version number. The ’24’ stands for 2024, and ‘2’ for the month of February, similar to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nLibreOffice 24.2: New features<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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