LibreOffice 24.8 is officially available for installation and includes a new privacy feature that will appeal to many Linux users.

This new feature is centered around privacy and makes it easy for users to remove personal information from documents. Said information includes author names, timestamps, editing duration, printer name and configuration, document template details, author and date of comments, and tracked changes. Given how security and privacy have become a critical aspect of computing in the modern era, this is an especially important feature. LibreOffice is now the only office suite on the market that respects the privacy of the user, while also retaining a feature set that is comparable to the competition. To use this new feature, you only have to enable Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Security > Options > Remove personal information on saving. Once you've done that, no personal information will be exported.

Other new features/improvements include better handling of character formatting, cross-references for drag-and-drop items, better hyphenation, new functions for Calc (FILTER, LET, RANDARRAY, SEQUENCE, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, XLOOKUP and XMATCH), the ability to scroll between slides in Impress, new chart types (such as Pie-of-Pie and Bar-of-Bar), accessibility improvements, and a new mode for password-based ODF encryption.

You can read more about the latest release from the official LibreOffice notes and then download the installer from the LibreOffice download page.
 
 
 
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