LibreOffice

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Last updated: Aug 27, 2024 by Lina Iyer
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https://www.libreoffice.org/ is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF). It was forked in 2010 from http://OpenOffice.org , an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice. The LibreOffice suite consists of programs for word processing, creating and editing spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams, and drawings, working with databases, and composing mathematical formulae.

Windows on Arm support

windows-arm64 has been supported since LibreOffice 7.1 (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.1). It’s cross compiled from windows-x64. Build instructions can be found here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows.

Initial discussions for windows-arm64 support:

CI

LibreOffice jenkins is available here: https://ci.libreoffice.org

Specific daily job is:https://ci.libreoffice.org//job/lo_daily_tb_win_arm64/

 

Release

LibreOffice 24.8 was officially released with windows-arm64 support:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/
LibreOffice 24.8, for the privacy-conscious office suite user - The Document Foundation Blog

Note: This is not a LTS release yet and only LTS releases are available on the MS Store.