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Berlin, July 28, 2017 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.4, the last major release of the LibreOffice 5.x family, immediately available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and for the cloud. LibreOffice 5.4 adds significant new features in every module, including the usual large number of incremental improvements to Microsoft Office file compatibility.
Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication", LibreOffice developers have focused on file simplicity as the ultimate document interoperability sophistication. This makes ODF and OOXML files written by the free office suite more robust and easier to exchange with other users than the same documents generated by other office suites.
Thanks to the efforts of developers, the XML description of a new document written by LibreOffice is 50% smaller in the case of ODF (ODT), and around 90% smaller in the case of OOXML (DOCX), in comparison with the same document generated by the leading proprietary office suite. Additional details in the file simplicity backgrounder: https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/5Oe8guDN0XSS7h8.
(Score: 2) by Taibhsear on Monday July 31 2017, @04:18PM
Did they fix the issue with librecalc not saving data validity properly in MSoffice formats and vice versa? I currently have to manually update two separate versions of a massive spreadsheet because the two programs don't like each other's version of data validity. One copy for people with MSOffice (worked on in Excel in Windows to xlsx) and one copy for people without (worked on in LibreCalc in Linux to ods).