My Libre Office version seems very outdated (on Linux)

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#1

I have a question. I’ve installed LibreOffice at the same time I’ve installed this linux distro on my laptop and always did the updates/upgrades via the command line. And I just checked my Libre Office version (Help-About LibreOffice) and it shows Version: 7.3.7.2 LibreOffice Community. And when I go to libreoffice.org it shows 24.8.4 as the latest stable release!

How’s that possible?

My system
Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Codename: jammy
Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-51-generic
Architecture: x86-64

My Libre Office
Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 30(Build:2)
CPU threads: 1; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 1:7.3.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.8
Calc: threaded

#2

Were you ever curious about how your chosen Linux distro manages its application repository? They have their own maintainers, who decide how to update applications; and the process is usually limited to shipping the app versions current at the moment of the OS version release, plus some limited bugfixes / security fixes. This is not about LibreOffice, this is, in your specific case, about Ubuntu.

#7

Not sure this is the case. I doubt that anyone at Ubuntu would keep LibreOffice backdate for over a year ago.

#8

It’s the other way round. No one at Ubuntu would upgrade LibreOffice against their policy. But - you may see that the same packaging team at Ubuntu keeps their PPA.

#3

Following version 7.6, LibreOffice changed to a calendar-based release numbering scheme, so 24.2 (February 2024) followed 7.6.

#6

Ok, good to know. But how come my version is at 7.3.7.2 when I do all the updates/upgrades regularly? And I’ve seen LibreOffice being upgraded a few days ago.

#4

maybe package management - No libreoffice calc on a new install of Ubuntu Mate 22.04 - Ask Ubuntu

Turn jammy-updates back on. Then libreoffice-calc will install properly.

#5

As said, I did all the updates and upgrades. And this is not about Calc, but the whole Libre Office suite.

#9

why not upgrading the whole ubuntu…… ?
for example https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-upgrade-from-ubuntu-22-04-lts-to-ubuntu-24-04-lts/

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