LibreOffice 7.4 (UPDATEx7)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 18, 2022,
updated Aug 20, 2022

• LibreOffice 7.4 Community, a benchmark for interoperability

  Development is now focused on interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats, and many new features are targeted at users migrating from MS Office

• LibreOffice 7.4 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What's New - 9to5Linux

  The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 7.4 today as the new stable series of their free, open-source, and cross-platform office suite that brings more new features and improvements.

  Coming six and a half months after LibreOffice 7.3, the LibreOffice 7.4 release is here with lots of goodies for fans of the popular open–source office suite, including support for WebP images, support for EMZ/WMZ files, a new Search field for the Extension Manager to make it easier to find extensions, help pages for the ScriptForge scripting library, an asynchronous dialog for naming a new color, revamped font dialog, and the ability to remember if recent documents were opened read-only or editable.

UPDATE

By Joey Sneddon now.

• LibreOffice 7.4 is Out — And It Doubles-Down on Microsoft Office Compatibility - OMG! Ubuntu!

  This update arrives on schedule, six months post LibreOffice 7.3, which was a fairly notable release. In LibreOffice 7.4 the productivity suite’s devs deliver a deluge of fixes and enhancements aimed squarely at improving ‘interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats’.

  What’s more, many of the new features being added to LibreOffice are tailored to those who are migrating from MS Office to this free, open-source alternative. Y’know, keeping things familiar enough to not be scary.

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Now in LWN.

• LibreOffice 7.4 Community released [LWN.net]

  The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 7.4 Community, which is the community-supported version of the open-source office suite. Version 7.4 comes with new features for the suite as a whole (WebP and EMZ/WMZ support, ...), the Writer word-processor (better change tracking and hyphenation settings, ...), the Calc spreadsheet (16K columns, ...), and more. "Development is now focused on interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats, and many new features are targeted at users migrating from MS Office". More information can be found in the release notes.

Another one today.

• LibreOffice 7.4 Released with 16K Column Support + More

  The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 7.4 Community edition today. This release brings significant improvements across Calc (spreadsheet program), Writer (Document processor) and other components. In addition, many bug fixes and filter updates for Microsoft Office 365 grace this release.

  Before heading to the download section, here’s a quick recap of the new features. A detailed feature guide is available on this page.

  There are no issues for those of you who work with massive volumes of data and worry about data loss. The spreadsheet program Calc gets to support 16384 columns, i.e. up to XFD in this release. With this feature, Calc and Excel support an equal number of rows and columns.

Another one below.

• LibreOffice 7.4 Community Release – Taming LibreOffice

  LibreOffice 7.4 Community was released on 18 August 2022. Here is the official blog post about it, with much more information about the release and about LibreOffice. You can get LibreOffice 7.4 from the download page for Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux.

In ITWire now.

• LibreOffice 7.4 arrives

  LibreOffice provides native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF), while offering "superior" support for Microsoft Office files, as well as filters for a wide range of legacy document formats.

  New features across LibreOffice 7.4 include support for WebP images and EMZ/WMZ files, help pages for the ScriptForge scripting library, a Search field in the Extension Manager, and performance and compatibility improvements.

A couple more pieces this afternoon.

• LibreOffice Office Suite 7.4 is Available to Download | UbuntuHandbook

  Ubuntu’s default LibreOffice office suite got a big updates! See what’s new and how to install guide.

  LibreOffice finally added WebP image format support by releasing the 7.4 release. As well, this release features new remote grammar checker: LanguageTool API; Calc now supports sparklines and uses 16,384 columns in spreadsheets; Show Changes mode does no longer count deleted list items, instead it now shows changes in numbering correctly.

• LibreOffice 7.4 is Here With WebP Support and Powerful Enhancements for MS Office Interoperability

  LibreOffice 7.4 community edition is a major upgrade to the previous release after six months.

  With LibreOffice 7.4, The Document Foundation mentions that the development is now focused on “interoperability” with Microsoft's proprietary file formats.

  While this is great news for users migrating away from MS Office, the upgrade also introduces some cool features. Here, let me highlight the best parts of the release.

A word from Mike Saunders today.

• Congratulations to all community members, on the release of LibreOffice 7.4! - The Document Foundation Blog

  Yesterday, The Document Foundation announced LibreOffice 7.4, our latest major release. TDF helped to coordinate the release, but most of the work was done by community volunteers and certified developers in the ecosystem.

  We at TDF would like to say a big thanks to everyone who helped out – but don’t just take it from us! Here’s a selection of congratulations and thanks we saw, across social media, Reddit and other places…

Microsoft's booster Richard Speed spins that as a "Microsoft" thing.

• LibreOffice improves Microsoft compatibility with version 7.4

  Just over six months on from version 7.3, LibreOffice 7.4 Community has arrived, boasting improvements in Microsoft Office compatibility.

  File compatibility has long been a significant roadblock for users and organizations seeking an alternative to Microsoft's ubiquitous productivity suite.

  "Microsoft files are still based on the proprietary format deprecated by ISO in 2008, and not on the ISO approved standard, so they hide a large amount of artificial complexity," sniffed the LibreOffice crew. "This causes handling issues with LibreOffice, which defaults to a true open standard format (the OpenDocument Format)."

LibreOffice 7.4 on a Chromebook: a guide.

• How to install LibreOffice 7.4 on a Chromebook

  Today we are looking at how to install LibreOffice 7.4 on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below.

Now in Slackware.

• Slackware: LibreOffice 7.4.0 and security updates for Chromium 104 | Alien Pastures

  I added fresh packages for LibreOffice Community Edition 7.4.0 which was released a few days ago. According to the Document Foundation blog post, the focus is on improving MS Office document format interoperability and helping people migrate from MS Office to LibreOffice.

  Note that I compiled these new packages on Slackware 15.0. If you install them on Slackware -current you will also need to download ‘icu4c-compat‘ and boost-compat from my repository and install them. They are two compatibility packages containing older versions of the icu4c and boost libraries, in particular the versions that are part of Slackware 15.0 but no longer part of -current.

  Get libreoffice packages from my own Europe-based server: https://slackware.nl/people/alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/ or my US-based server: https://us.slackware.nl/people/alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/ ;or any mirror if you wait a day, for instance https://slackware.uk/people/alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/ . These servers all offer rsync access if you prefer that to http.