LibreOffice 24.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Highlights of LibreOffice 24.8 include a new “Remove personal information on saving” privacy feature under Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Security > Options to prevent LibreOffice from exporting personal information like author names and timestamps, editing duration, printer name and config, document template, author and date for comments and tracked changes.
LibreOffice 24.8 also introduces a new mode of password-based ODF encryption that promises enhanced performance due to deriving a key only once per package, tamper-resistance with authenticated encryption, better hiding of metadata to reduce information leaks, and higher resistance to brute forcing using memory-hard Argon2id key derivation function.
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LibreOffice 24.8, for the privacy-conscious office suite user - The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice 24.8, the new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux is available from our download page. This is the second major release to use the new calendar-based numbering scheme (YY.M), and the first to provide an official package for Windows PCs based on ARM processors.
LibreOffice is the only office suite, or if you prefer, the only software for creating documents that may contain personal or confidential information, that respects the privacy of the user – thus ensuring that the user is able to decide if and with whom to share the content they have created. As such, LibreOffice is the best option for the privacy-conscious office suite user, and provides a feature set comparable to the leading product on the market. It also offers a range of interface options to suit different user habits, from traditional to contemporary, and makes the most of different screen sizes by optimising the space available on the desktop to put the maximum number of features just a click or two away.
The biggest advantage over competing products is the LibreOffice Technology engine, the single software platform on which desktop, mobile and cloud versions of LibreOffice – including those provided by ecosystem companies – are based. This allows LibreOffice to offer a better user experience and to produce identical and perfectly interoperable documents based on the two available ISO standards: the Open Document Format (ODT, ODS and ODP), and the proprietary Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX). The latter hides a large amount of artificial complexity, which may create problems for users who are confident that they are using a true open standard.
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LibreOffice 24.8 Released, Here's What's New
Central to LibreOffice 24.8 is the LibreOffice Technology engine, which supports the suite’s desktop, mobile, and cloud versions. This unified platform enables the production of consistent and interoperable documents according to ISO standards like ODT and the proprietary Microsoft OOXML formats.
Now, let’s look at the improvements made to the individual apps in the new version of this great office suite.
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LibreOffice 24.8 Released, This is What's New - OMG! Ubuntu
LibreOffice 24.8 builds on the improvements shipped in the LibreOffice 24.2 release earlier this year. That release updated the versioning scheme to a data-based format, which this one follows. The ’24’ denotes ‘2024’, and ‘8’ the month, August.
Under the hood, LibreOffice 24.8 rolls up 6 months of development: 5591 commits from 171 developer, 115 of whom are volunteers. These range from bug fixes and security tweaks to UI changes, new features, and ever-important enhancements to interoperability.
Plus, LibreOffice 24.8 is the first version of the suite to be released for Windows on ARM (we Linux users have had native ARM builds for a long time, so we’re not missing out).
No doubt you’re wanting to hear and see more, so read on to swot up on what’s new in LibreOffice 24.8!