It was announced today LibreOffice 24.2the new version of the office database creation and management program.
LibreOffice 24.2 Community is based on the AA.M calendar
LibreOffice 24.2 Community, the new major version of the volunteer-supported free office suite and the first to use the new numbering scheme calendar based (AA.M), is now available on the official website for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux. The new numbering scheme will help users keep their LibreOffice installation up to date.
LibreOffice 24.2 offers a wide range of interfaces that adapt to various needs
LibreOffice is the only open source office suite for personal productivity with a feature set comparable to the leading product on the market. It also offers a range of interface options for adapt to different user habits, from traditional to modern, and make the most of different screen form factors by optimizing available desktop space to put the maximum number of features just a click or two away.
Which is the biggest advantage
The biggest advantage of LibreOffice over any other office suite is the engine LibreOffice Technology, a single software platform for all environments: desktop, cloud and mobile. This infrastructure allows LibreOffice to offer a better user experience and, above all, to produce identical – and perfectly interoperable – documents based on the two available ISO standards: the Open Document Format (ODT, ODS and ODP) for users concerned about compatibility, resilience and digital sovereignty and the proprietary Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX).
Who contributed to the new features
I am 166 contributors to the new features of the LibreOffice 24.2 community: 57% of code commits come from the 50 developers employed by three companies on the TDF Advisory Board – Collabora, Allotropy and Red Hat – or from other organizations, 20% from 8 developers on The Document Foundation and the remainder 23% from 108 individual volunteers.
Another 159 volunteers worked on localization into 160 languages, representing hundreds of people providing translations. LibreOffice 24.2 Community is available in 120 languages, more than any other desktop software, making it available to more than 5.5 billion people worldwide in their native language. Additionally, over 2.4 billion people speak one of these 120 languages as a second language (L2).
