The life of the FOSS (Actually, software at a general level) is difficult and competition is tough, and while some projects are going very well, others are trying to survive as best they can despite having been a benchmark for an entire era. And so while OpenOffice is about to die, your competitor LibreOffice is in very good health and a few hours ago a new version arrived with a lot of updates and improvements, which give shape to LibreOffice 5.2.1.
It is a version that brings news on all fronts, as Italo Vignoli (from The Document Foundation) suggests that it is who has given the official announcement on the project blog, coinciding with the start of the LibOCon event in Brno (Czech Republic). All this just a month after the version 5.2 arrival that, remember, had been announced with great fanfare due to its many novelties, something that is repeated now and that is nothing more than a clear indication of the very good work that its developers have been coming forward.
Thus, LibreOffice 5.2.1 arrives with all the news And as recommended by TDF, it is a version rather aimed at enthusiasts of new technologies, those who always seek to be among the first to know and try new products. For companies and users that are based on LibreOffice for production environments, it is convenient to stay in LibreOffice 5.1.5, after all, the version that has professional support and to which the tutorials and certifications are directed.
Those who wish to try both versions can do so, since LibreOffice 5.2.1 can be installed alongside the 5.1.x branch, but you cannot run both simultaneously. Finally, say that you can download LibreOffice 5.2.1 from the official website of the project, directing us to the channel 'New' of the quintessential free office suite.
Well, in Ubuntu 16.04 this version does not suit me very well, apart from adding an invisible menu bar at the top (apart from the visible one from unity) it displays bad files made with the previous version adding non-existent page breaks , crashing, not closing properly almost never and trying to recover perfectly saved files before exiting ... I had to downgrade to 5.1.5 and remove the ppa repositories while waiting for a new version to come out :-(
The other thing I don't know, but if you get a second bar, it sounds like you have it with gtk2, install the gtk3 support and that's fixed. Greetings and long life.
I don't know how the community will allow the base of the true, substantial and "novel" changes to its acclaimed LibreOffice to disappear, for we must not ignore the fact that it was thanks to the Code donated from Lotus Symphony to the Apache Foundation that IT « he was able to give the much-awaited facelift to the suite to some extent. On a technical level, it has many features that make it much more functional and reliable than LO, macro recording, for example, for a newcomer is a great plus ... the compatibility of the files between earlier and later versions is excellent, something almost impossible to achieve with LO without the documents being totally deconfigured… ..in short, there should be a community shift to improve Apache OpenOffice, a highly functional, stable and reliable piece of technology for both home and business users.
And nobody likes WPS ??? It's better than the two of them together ...
I use it, so far it has not given me problems and that it is still alpha
I like WPS and at the same time I use LO 5.2
I have Version: 5.2.0.4 installed on Ubuntu 16.04 and I have no problem.