
There are no feature additions, mobile versions, compatibility with Microsoft Office so on.Īs you can understand, there might be security issues still present in the current old OpenOffice version. The Apache Foundation’s OpenOffice is still in version 4.1.7 and gets very minor bug fixes that too relead to Java.

And with the latest LibreOffice 7.x series, it became a more viable free office alternative to the users across the user base. Since then, there have been 13 major releases and 87 minor releases of LibreOffice with more features, compatibility with Microsoft Office product.

The primary reason to give a clear direction and the latest alternative to the users who don’t want to keep paying Microsoft monthly for Office.

LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice around 2010 – 2011 timeframe.
