The Document Foundation today released LibreOffice 7.4.5, a patch update to the stable LibreOffice 7.4 open-source office suite series, to address critical issues affecting many users across all supported platforms.
LibreOffice 7.4.5 comes two weeks after the release of LibreOffice 7.4.4 and fixes a crash that occurs when clicking the header or footer button after scrolling in the LibreOffice Writer component. The issue was discovered in LibreOffice version 7.4.4 and affected a large number of users.
The Foundation recommends that all users of the LibreOffice 7.4 Office Suite family update their installations to LibreOffice version 7.4.5 as soon as possible. Users can do so by downloading binaries for RPM- or DEB-based distributions from the official website or via the distribution’s stable software repository.
This update was initially planned for early March 2023, as the Foundation is currently focused on finalizing the next major release of the open source office suite LibreOffice 7.5, which is expected to bring numerous new features and improvements next week on February 2.
As a result, the LibreOffice 7.4 series will receive additional minor releases until LibreOffice 7.4.7. The March update has now been assigned to LibreOffice 7.4.6, which is expected to be released in the first week of March with more bug fixes.
The LibreOffice 7.4 Office Suite series will be supported until June 12, 2023, as LibreOffice 7.5 will be considered a feature release for enthusiasts and cutting-edge users.
This is the “community” version of LibreOffice, supported by volunteers and other members of the open source community. For enterprise deployments and paid technical support, users will need to use the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications.
