10 Feb 2022

LibreOffice 7.3: A week in stats

Posted in Uncategorised By Mike Saunders On February 10, 2022

One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 7.3, 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 then? Let’s check out some stats…

675,567 downloads

These are just stats for our official downloads page, of course – many Linux users will have acquired the new release via their distribution’s package repositories.

30,273 Tweet impressions

The announcement Tweet was viewed over 30,000 times, and had 535 likes and 183 retweets. We’re also on Mastodon, a FOSS-friendly federated microblogging service: our Mastodon toot had 80 likes and 42 shares. Meanwhile, the Facebook post reached 17,162 people, with 530 reactions and 116 shares.

41,532 video views

Our LibreOffice 7.3 New Features video has been popular, with 75 comments and 841 likes. (We also uploaded the video to PeerTube, an open source, decentralized and federated video platform.)

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1091 upvotes on Reddit

As always, we posted the announcement on the /r/linux subreddit, where it had 1091 upvotes and 99 comments. We also have our own dedicated /r/libreoffice subreddit – check it out!

Huge thanks to our worldwide community of volunteers, and certified developers, for all their work on this release!

Comments

  1. By Marc

    Wow. Those are exciting stats! Big up! Congratulations on that successful release…

    • By Mike Saunders

      Thanks Marc! 🙂

  2. By Jakkrit

    Please check the download link on this page
    https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

    When I click Download button it redirect to this url
    https://mirror.cyberbits.asia/tdf/libreoffice/stable/7.3.0/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_7.3.0_Win_x64.msi

    This site can’t be reached
    mirror.cyberbits.asia’s server IP address could not be found.

    So, I’ve tried to visit this url
    https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/7.3.0/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_7.3.0_Win_x64.msi.mirrorlist

    I can download from another link

    • By Mike Saunders

      Thanks Jakkrit – we’ll investigate!

  3. By Carlos Parra Zaldivar

    Congratulation, from Cuba https://libreoffice.cubava.cu

  4. By Greg

    Hi and thanks for this new release!
    I am working on a docx document from a colleague and the version 7.3 keeps crashing when I use the scrawl option of my pad to go through the document. It recovers fine after but literally happened more then 10 times in the last 30 minutes. I am on a Macbook Pro (OS 12.1). Have you had some feedback of such an issue?

    • By Mike Saunders

      Hi Greg! Can you try disabling Skia under LibreOffice > Preferences > View in the menu, please? Then restart and see if that stops the crashing.