Red Hat manager Matthias Clasen has posted an article on the “LibreOffice Packages” mailing list about plans to reduce support for LibreOffice.
The article as follows:
The Red Hat Display Systems team (the team behind the Red Hat desktop environment) has been responsible for maintaining the LibreOffice installer in Fedora for the past several years as it has advanced the LibreOffice process in Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions.
We are currently reprioritizing the engineering of RHEL for Workstation to focus on Wayland, building HDR support, and the features that Workstation users need.
This work will improve the workstation experience for both Fedora and RHEL users, and we hope that the entire Linux community will embrace it positively.
On balance, we have decided to reduce our work on desktop applications and not integrate LibreOffice in future versions of RHEL, which means less maintenance of LibreOffice in future versions of Fedora.
We will continue to maintain LibreOffice in currently supported RHEL (RHEL 7, 8, and 9) and continue to fix CVE security vulnerabilities and provide related content throughout its lifecycle.
The engineers working on this will provide some fixes upstream to ensure that LibreOffice works in Flatpak format.
Any member of the community is free to take over the maintenance of either RPM (Red Hat Package Managers) in Fedora or Fedora LibreOffice Flatpak.
