LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 release, enabling the new version number naming convention

CTOnews.com, November 24 (Xinhua)-- the documentation Foundation released the open source office suite LibreOffice 7.6 Community Edition in August this year, which claims to be "the last major version of the solution that uses the traditional version." From 2024, LibreOffice has switched to a calendar-based version number scheme in "YYYY-MM format", such as 2024.02 for February 2024.

According to foreign media phoronix, the document Foundation has launched a new naming version of LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1. The function freeze and code branch of LibreOffice 24.2 will be carried out in early December. It is expected that the document Foundation will release the relevant candidate version between December and January this year, and release the official version of LibreOffice 24.2 in February.

The main changes in CTOnews.com finishing are as follows:

In LibreOffice Writer, the function of multi-page floating table has been improved.

In the function sidebar of the LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet, a new search field is added.

The function of small uppercase letters (Small Caps) is implemented in LibreOffice Impress.

Search function has been added to the LibreOffice option area.

Added a password strength indicator to the LibreOffice Save with password dialog box.

When users use dark themes based on desktop settings, automatically switching to dark application colors and dark icon themes now apply to Qt-based UI variants, such as KDE Plasma.

Save automatic recovery Information and always create backup copies are enabled by default to improve the stability of LibreOffice.