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Because of security vulnerabilities: LibreOffice advises against OpenOffice

heise.de
9 points·by mksaunders2·ano passado·0 comments

OpenOffice still being recommended despite year-old unfixed security issues

fosstodon.org
12 points·by mksaunders2·ano passado·4 comments

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mksaunders2
·há 2 meses·discuss
Just to point out that that this article is a mixture of completely wrong, and misleading:

* There is no such thing as "LibreOffice 26.4 Beta". The next release of LibreOffice will be 26.8, and hasn't gone into beta yet. So the author is seemingly inventing this

* LibreOffice is not "introducing early AI-powered writing capabilities". There are no plans to put AI in LibreOffice. Some people are working on third-party extensions that add AI features, but those are separate. Very misleading.
mksaunders2
·há 3 meses·discuss
You can read TDF's position: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...
mksaunders2
·há 3 meses·discuss
Everyone, please also read TDF's side of the story, before speculating: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...
mksaunders2
·há 3 meses·discuss
Please do read TDF's side of the story as well: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...
mksaunders2
·há 11 meses·discuss
LibreOffice developer | Preferably full-time | Remote

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mksaunders2
·ano passado·discuss
Here's also the Apache Software Foundation's Security Team minutes with "openoffice (Health amber): Three issues in OpenOffice over 365 days old and a number of other open issues not fully triaged":

https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Security_Team.html
mksaunders2
·ano passado·discuss
The Git log is also almost entirely two people removing whitespace, changing the case of HTML tags and tweaking comments: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk