14 DAY TRIAL // The Document Foundation announced on Wednesday the release and immediate availability for download of the fourth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 5.4 office suite series.
LibreOffice 5.4.4 comes five weeks after the release of version 5.4.3 to brings a total of 83 improvements and bug fixes for various of the included components, such as Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math, and Base. The complete changelogs are available here and here for those curious to know what exactly was changed, and The Document Foundation now recommends LibreOffice 5.3 users to upgrade.
"The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 5.4.4, the fourth minor release of LibreOffice 5.4 family, one month before the major announcement of LibreOffice 6.0," writes Italo Vignoli. "Although it still represents the bleeding edge in term of features, conservative users and enterprises can start the update process from their current LibreOffice 5.3 implementation."
LibreOffice 5.4 to reach end of life on June 11, 2018
The release cycle of the LibreOffice 5.4 stable series will continue with two more such maintenance updates until it reaches end of life on June 11, 2018. The next update, LibreOffice 5.4.5, is expected to arrive in the week of February 19, 2018, two weeks after the release of the major LibreOffice 6.0 series at the end of January, and the last update, LibreOffice 5.4.6, should be out in the week of April 30, 2018.
Until then, we recommend both LibreOffice 5.3 and LibreOffice 5.4 users to update to today's LibreOffice 5.4.4 release as soon as possible. You can download LibreOffice 5.4.4 binary and source packages for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now through our software portal. Linux users should also be able to update via the software repositories of their favorite distros in the next few days.