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1. LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 21:11:29 JST LibreOffice

   • LibreOffice
   • The Document Foundation

   LibreOffice 24.2 Community, the new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite, with the new calendar-based numbering scheme (YY.M), many new useful features, and a focus on security and accessibility, is available at https://www.libreoffice.org/download @libreoffice @tdforg

   • Nordnick :verified: (nick@norden.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 00:09:08 JST Nordnick :verified:

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     • erAck
     • The Document Foundation
     • Damtux (Mastodon)

     @damtux
     @erAck

     Thanks for the #URL.

     I'm aware of the change from major.minor to year.month, but this means, #LibreOffice will not provide a real version number in the future, as a release date doesn't tell anything about major.minor or what to expect from a release.

     And it looks like they discussed between 24.02 and 24.2...

     But is 24.2 a version like 7.7 or a next generation like 8.0?
     And what about 24.8?

     @libreoffice @tdforg

   • Damtux (Mastodon) (damtux@mastodon.uno)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 00:09:10 JST Damtux (Mastodon)

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     • The Document Foundation
     • Nordnick :verified:

     @nick @libreoffice @tdforg
     This is the real version number :)

     As written here https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-May/090403.html
     they decided to jump straight to 24.2 (from 7.6) updating the numbering scheme.

   • Nordnick :verified: (nick@norden.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 00:09:11 JST Nordnick :verified:

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     • The Document Foundation

     @libreoffice @tdforg

     Do we have some way to get a real version number somewhere?

   • Damtux (Mastodon) (damtux@mastodon.uno)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 00:09:35 JST Damtux (Mastodon)

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     • erAck
     • The Document Foundation
     • Nordnick :verified:
     • Italo Vignoli

     @nick @erAck @libreoffice @tdforg
     Now I got it, thanks for the explanation! :)

     We should ask to someone from Libreoffice Marketing like @italovignoli

     (My opinion) I think they abandoned the idea of "generations" as now there's a continuous stream of features and bug fixes above mature and stable codebase.

     It's not like Nextcloud where they continue to mantain a double numbering scheme as they're still introducing new and (sometimes) breaking changes where you can distinguish the generations