LibreOffice 5.0 Announced

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The next major release of LibreOffice is coming out on August 5th, in just two days. LibreOffice 5.0 will be the newest release of the now mature open source office productivity suite. The rumor is that LO5 is a pretty big release with a lot of updates.

Some of the known pre-release date highlights include:

Better emoji handling
In document image cropping and editing
Many document compatibility updates
New spreadsheet functions

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nadnerB

Well, that's an improvement in the looks department from the last time that I looked into LO/OO.

scottalanmiller

I've always found LO to be quite attractive.

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LibreOffice 5 Under the Hood: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-08-05-under-the-hood-5-0.html

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ZDNet calls LibreOffice 5 the best office suite.