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Your point is that is is not a general release? If it contains patches for 'known vulnerabilities", I have to install it. If it is just a testing release, there is nothing stopping you from tagging it as alpha, beta, or release candidate. This would be a lot easier if patches for “known vulnerabilities” were annotated as such. Those are the only ones I am required to install.
just as well as nothing stopping you from reading announcements, release plan, official download page, etc.; and nothing stopping you from stopping telling others what to do in their project that provides the product for free.
Yes these are release candidates. This is their official name. Alphas and betas are only for pre-X.Y.0. And release candidates are never meant for use in production, only for testing. If you confuse them for releases, you do not understand.
The announcement of the 24 release stated that they were rolling releases, meaning that you got patches quicker. That is a good thing, most of the time. I have not got the time to support rolling releases on my customer’s PCI systems. The regular customer, I am fine with it. They never upgrade anything anyway, unless I specifically request it. (They have had them fingers burned too many times by M$ updates, so they are afraid of everyone else’s updates as well. Not a founded fear.)
No. There was no change in release plan, in support strategy, in everything. There was no such announcement. You misread/misunderstood/misremember. Only number changed from 7 to 24.
Another place to look for the latest release would be
https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/latest/win/x86_64/
I see they are already on 24.8
Sigh. it’s useless to talk to you: I already wrote, that downloadarchive is for everything - and you repeat that parrot’s song about “releases” there. There was not a single release for 24.8, only the first release candidate. And when 24.8.0 (likely it will be 24.8.0.3, from experience it usually takes two rejected release candidates for initial release) is out, a sane enterprise won’t use it in prod, will use only 24.2.(5,6,7), until there will be 24.8.5.
They should be tagged “rc” in their release number, like every other open source release.
We owe you nothing. Zero. It is not your business how we name our builds. Is this clear?
On 1/31/24 04:14, Italo Vignoli wrote:
[tdf-announce] LibreOffice 24.2 Community available for all operating systems
For users who don’t need the latest features and prefer a version that has undergone more testing and bug fixing, The Document Foundation maintains the LibreOffice 7.6 family, which includes several months of back-ported fixes. The current release is LibreOffice 7.6.4 Community.
Hmmmmm. 7 is renamed 24? Do not think that is what Italo meant.
You do not think? That shows. There was an ESC decision about the version names; there was a public announcement. There was also a similar announcement about 7.6 release, with the same wording except 7.6 stood for 24.2, and 7.5 stood for 7.6…
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-May/090403.html
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-June/090430.html
please refrain from personal insults
Sorry, I missed that eMail. I did read Italo eMail thought. Things must have changed. Would you give me a link to the new method please. Was it eMailed out? The subject line would help me find it.
LibreOffice 24.2 Community available for all operating systems - The Document Foundation Blog is the same text as in that mail that you quote. It tells:
… LibreOffice 24.2 Community, the new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite and the first to use the new calendar-based numbering scheme (YY.M)
The links to the ESC discussion are above.
And this is 7.6 announcement: Announcement of LibreOffice 7.6 Community - The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice 7.6 Community is available from: www.libreoffice.org/download/. Minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Apple macOS 10.15. LibreOffice Technology-based products for Android and iOS are listed here: www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/.
For users who don’t need the latest features, and prefer a version that has undergone more testing and bug fixing, The Document Foundation maintains the LibreOffice 7.5 family, which includes some months of back-ported fixes. The current version is LibreOffice 7.5.5 Community.
Thank you (ten characters)
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wow, seems it’s no more this famous user-to-user ask site here !!!??? 
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more seriously (and focused), any idea wether the “still” version was intentionally dropped from the download page ?
(the question was also raised for the French site here Téléchargement de Libreoffice version stable)
and I’d be quite tempted to reopen Task #3712: Fresh - Still retirement - Infrastructure - The Document Foundation Redmine)
(Sidenote: the sarcasm is unwarranted. It is OK for me to answer as a developer. But it’s wrong expectation, when askers hope to address developers here (because they will see their expectations failed): my presence here is an “accident”, and I do it not because I’m a developer, but because I hope to help people who need more technical help / more deep insight. @erAck and @Regina are also regulars here, but not many others. That’s what my usual “user-to-user” idea is about.)
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