14 DAY TRIAL // Italo Vignoli from The Document Foundation (TDF) is informing Softpedia today, March 9, 2017, about the general and immediate availability of the sixth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 5.2 open-source and cross-platform office suite.
It's been one and a half months since LibreOffice 5.2.5 was announced, but the hard working LibreOffice developers never stop improving the application, even if they released the major LibreOffice 5.3 office suite on the first day of February 2017. And LibreOffice 5.2.6 is here as proof for their continuous support.
LibreOffice 5.2.6 received two RC (Release Candidate) builds during this time, which brought a total of 64 improvements across all components, including Writer, Calc, Math, Impress, Draw, Base, and Charts. You can study the RC1 and RC2 changelogs if you're curious to know what exactly was changed. Users can also download the new Getting Started with LibreOffice 5.2 guide.
"TDF suggests to deploy LibreOffice in large organizations, public administrations and enterprises with the backing of professional support by certified people (a list is available at: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/)," reads today's announcement.
LibreOffice 5.2.7 to hit the streets in May 2017
According to the official release plan, the LibreOffice 5.2 series should get one more such minor point release that fixes bugs and polishes features, versioned 5.2.7, which is expected to hit the streets in the first week of May 2017. LibreOffice 5.2.7 is also marking the end of life of the series, which has been set for June 4, 2017.
Therefore, if you're still using the LibreOffice 5.2 office suite on your personal computer, we strongly recommend that you update as soon as possible to today's LibreOffice 5.2.6 release, which you can download for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from our website, and consider an upgrade to LibreOffice 5.3 until June.