LibreOffice 7.5 Alpha1 is available for testing
LibreOffice 7.5 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2023 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.5 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 7.5 started in mid June, 2022. Since then, 4875 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 759 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.
LibreOffice 7.5 Alpha1 can be downloaded from here for Linux, MacOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version.
In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ).
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Hi,
Normal versioning of LO so far goes like this:
… v4.4 -> v5.0
… v5.4 -> v6.0
… v6.4 -> v7.0
… v7.4 -> expected v8.0 not v7.5
Up to now, there were five editions for each “main number” like v6.0, v6.1, v6.2, v6.3, v6.4.
Why is there v7.5?
Yes, you are correct, that was the case in the past, mainly because the marketing team had a reason to do so ( code clean up, UI refactoring, ODF 1.3… ). However, this time they didn’t find any major reason to change the version from 7.4 to 8.0 and it was decided to stay with 7.5 instead
This versioning scheme makes no sense, as I have repeatedly expressed in the past. Marketing won’t listen to me, of course, but we’d be better off using years and months as version numbers, as Collabora now does, given we release a new series each semester.
In fact, change of numbering is blocked by developers… You have missed another change of stay silent.