[tdf-announce] LibreOffice 7.2.1 Community available for download

Berlin, September 16, 2021 – LibreOffice 7.2.1 Community, the first 
minor release of the LibreOffice 7.2 family targeted at technology 
enthusiasts and power users, is available for download from 
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. This version  includes 77 bug 
fixes and improvements to document compatibility.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the 
LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners, 
with long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features 
and Service Level Agreements: 
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

LibreOffice Community and the LibreOffice Enterprise family of products 
are based on the LibreOffice Technology platform, the result of years of 
development efforts with the objective of providing a state of the art 
office suite not only for the desktop but also for mobile and the cloud.

Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for major desktop 
operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), mobile 
platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud. They may have a different 
name, according to each company brand strategy, but they share the same 
LibreOffice unique advantages, robustness and flexibility.

Most significant new features of LibreOffice 7.2

LibreOffice 7.2 Community provides a large number of interoperability 
improvements with Microsoft’s proprietary DOCX/XLSX/PPTX file formats: 
Writer tables (better import/export and management of table functions, 
and better support for change tracking in floating tables); management 
of cached field results in Writer; support of spacing below the header's 
last paragraph in DOC/DOCX files; and additional SmartArt improvements 
when importing PPTX files.

In addition, LibreOffice 7.2 Community offers numerous performance 
improvements in handling large files, opening certain DOCX and XLSX 
files, managing font caching, and opening presentations and drawings 
that contain large images. There are also drawing speed improvements 
when using the Skia back-end that was introduced with LibreOffice 7.1.

LibreOffice 7.2 Community is also available natively for Apple Silicon, 
a series of processors designed by Apple and based on the ARM 
architecture. Because of the early stage of development on this specific 
platform, binaries are provided but should not be used for critical 
purposes. Software is available from the following page: 
https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/7.2.1/mac/aarch64/. 


Availability of LibreOffice 7.2.1 Community

LibreOffice 7.2.1 Community represents the bleeding edge in term of 
features for open source office suites. For users whose main objective 
is personal productivity and therefore prefer a release that has 
undergone more testing and bug fixing over the new features, The 
Document Foundation provides LibreOffice 7.1.6.

LibreOffice 7.2.1 change log pages are available on TDF's wiki: 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.2.1/RC1 (changed in RC1) 
and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.2.1/RC2 (changed in RC2).

LibreOffice Technology based products for Android and iOS are listed 
here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/, while for 
App Stores and ChromeOS are listed here: 
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/ 


LibreOffice individual users are assisted by a global community of 
volunteers: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/. On 
the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and 
HowTos. Donations help us to make all of these resources available.

LibreOffice users are invited to join the community at 
https://ask.libreoffice.org, where they can get and provide user-to-user 
support. People willing to contribute their time and professional skills 
to the project can visit the dedicated website at 
https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can 
provide financial support to The Document Foundation with a donation via 
PayPal, credit card or other tools at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.

LibreOffice 7.2 is built with document conversion libraries from the 
Document Liberation Project: https://www.documentliberation.org.

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