One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 7.0, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too. So, what has happened in the week since the announcement? Let’s check out some stats…
422,938 downloads
These are just stats for our official downloads page, of course – some Linux users will have acquired the new release via their distribution’s package repositories.
113,235 hits for the press release
Our press release was viewed by people from around the world, and linked to by many websites. We also sent the PR to our announce mailing list, and it was translated into many languages thanks to our awesome localisation community.
54,079 Tweet impressions
The announcement Tweet was viewed almost 55,000 times, and had 763 likes and 508 retweets. We’re also on Mastodon, a FOSS-friendly federated microblogging service: our Mastodon toot had 79 likes and 97 shares. Meanwhile, the Facebook post reached 21,786 people, with 817 reactions and 181 shares.
48,874 video views
Our LibreOffice 7.0 New Features video has been popular, with 130 comments and 1,353 likes. (We also uploaded the video to PeerTube, an open source, decentralized and federated video platform.)
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1509 upvotes on Reddit
As always, we posted the announcement on the /r/linux subreddit, where it had 1509 upvotes and 250 comments. We also have our own dedicated /r/libreoffice subreddit – check it out!
A huge thanks to our worldwide community of volunteers, and certified developers, for all their work on this release! LibreOffice keeps moving forward, and this release really cements its position as the future of OpenOffice:
And how many crash reports? It has crashed on me at least once so far.
Not that I don’t appreciate all the hard work – many thanks for that! – but I have been finding all versions (5.?, 6.?, and 7.0) crash on me quite regularly.
Martin
Hi Martin, it certainly shouldn’t be crashing regularly. What setup are you using? What operating system? Do you have any extensions installed which could be causing a problem? Have you tried resetting your user profile? See here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile#Resolving_corruption
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Congrats!!
Sharing that awesome numbers in my little blog for spanish speakers users!!
https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/2020/08/12/libreoffice-7-0-las-estadisticas/
Keep on rockin’
When inside writer or another libre office app, going into font or page settings to make alterations takes ages.
This is on a clean install of libre office on ryzen 2700, vega 56 and nvme ssd drive.
Hi, if you think you’ve discovered a bug in LibreOffice, our QA community would appreciate a quick bug report at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org – please provide lots of details (LibreOffice version, operating system, exact steps to reproduce, and screenshot if relevant). Then our QA community can investigate further – thanks!
We have been using Libre office for years. We have a PC club in Springs South Africa for
pensioners. We have had no problems with Libre office it’s as good as MS office and better
I have been trying to upgrade from version 6 to version 7 via apt update. Running update daily but still I am on version 6. Is version 7 not yet available via ppa? I use Ubuntu 20.04.1.
You’ll need to ask the PPA maintainers about that!
Nice timeline. But it is missing the IMB Sym[hony contribution (the sidebar and stuff) to OO4 and LO4
Grapth from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StarOffice_major_derivatives.svg