LibreOffice 5.2.1 is released and Availalbe Now, how To Update and install on Ubuntu 16.10 'yakkety yak', Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18 'sarah' and other Ubuntu derivative systems
LibreOffice is an open source productivity suite that provides all the necessary office components for small-business, educational and non-profit organizations. It is a fork of the well-known OpenOffice.org application.
A drop-in replacement for OpenOffice.org
LibreOffice’s story starts not so long ago, as a continuation of the work already implemented in the OpenOffice.org software. The initial release of LibreOffice was made available back in 2011. Since then, the project got a lot of attention from the open source community, many developers joined the team, and in only a couple of years it became the number one office suite for almost, if not all Linux distributions.
LibreOffice 5.2.1 Changelog
add missing Loader$1.class
byref args incorrectly passed in basic->c++
conditional formatting super slow on exit
XML number format: do not enquote space followed by minus, follow-up
revert “Fail loading a new document with read only property …”
crash pressing tab in r-o document with hyperlink
restart on initialisation-time OpenCL crash
handle empty elements in matrix concatenation
conditional formatting super slow on exit
use most recent poppler release
report XDG_{DOCUMENTS,TEMPLATES}_DIR only when it exists
Writer crashes when trying to delete cell from a table
[fix available] Usability – libreoffice does not search XDG defined “Templates” directory
message box fonts corrupted in libreoffice
Impress: Instead of showing “Slide Master” view, “Normal” view is shown
wrong password passed to xpdfimport
disallow Fill and Random when entire sheet is selected
Undo crashes spreadsheet after trigger macro
GSoC firebird metadata functions
fix crash in diamond shape transition
printing controls uses wrong font and font sizes
paragraph styles drop-down list
and a host of others
Install / Update LibreOffice 5.2.1 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint
To Install / Update LibreOffice 5.2.1 onUbuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 18 'Sarah', Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 4.0 loki, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.