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Just to point out that that this article is a mixture of completely wrong, and misleading: * There is no such thing as "LibreOffice 26.4 Beta". The next release of LibreOffice will…

You can read TDF's position: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...

Everyone, please also read TDF's side of the story, before speculating: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...

Please do read TDF's side of the story as well: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...

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Here's also the Apache Software Foundation's Security Team minutes with "openoffice (Health amber): Three issues in OpenOffice over 365 days old and a number of other open issues n…

The Git log is also almost entirely two people removing whitespace, changing the case of HTML tags and tweaking comments: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk

BTW, anyone concerned can email apache at apache dot org and ask why they're still distributing OpenOffice despite vulnerabilities. A few people on Mastodon have done that but gott…

It's extremely risky to keep using OpenOffice. Apache has marked its security status as "Amber" with "three issues in OpenOffice over 365 days old and a number of other open issues…

Yes, and now there are unfixed security issues in OpenOffice over a year old, so the ASF really, really should put it in the Attic ASAP. If more people in the FOSS world raise awar…

> I still don't understand there isn't a supported version of LibreOffice that I can pay for But there are, and has been for years, such versions: https://www.libreoffice.org/downl…

The Apache Security Team report says it now has "three issues in OpenOffice over 365 days old and a number of other open issues not fully triaged". So it's not just unmaintained, b…

The "NotebookBar" tabbed user interface is a huge change and was implemented a few years ago. Still needs some refinement (anyone is welcome to help the Design community volunteers…

Auto-updates on Windows were implemented in the previous major release :-)

Totally incorrect. LibreOffice had no plans to do a "commercial" version - it's from a non-profit organisation. A few years ago, the version from The Document Foundation was given …

According to the Apache Security Team, Apache OpenOffice has: > Three issues in OpenOffice over 365 days old and a number of other open issues not fully triaged. Do you think it is…

According to Apache they still get tens of thousands of downloads of OpenOffice every day (mostly Windows). It's a really bad image for free and open source software when users (wh…

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