The Office@FreeBSD team is proud to announce long awaited, new major release of
LibreOffice suite - 7.0.0!
New major branch comes with tons of new changes: switch render from opengl to skia,
many templates redesigned from 4:3 to 16:9 format, added support for "ODF 1.3" and
"ODF 1.3 Extended" documents format, support native 2013/2016/2019 mode instead of
2007 compatibility mode for DOCX, added a new icon theme, named Sukapura.
Full release notes available on the official page
(https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.0)
Of course, conservative users can keep 6.4.x stable version by switch to use
all-in-one editors/libreoffice6 port and even with i18n langpack (off by default).
It will be kept updated at least till 7.1.0 version will be released.
Some notes about changes in port options:
- GTK2 option is obsolete by upstream
- GTK3 option is not more set by default because of unstable yet and have visual glitches
- QT5 option is set by default to provide comfy visual style for every user
- Change VCL autotetect logic (used if enable, skipto next in row if disabled:
-- For KDE/LXQT: kf5, qt5, gtk3_kde5, gtk3, gen
-- For GNOME, Unity, XFCE, MATE: gtk3, qt5, gen
-- All other DE should follow gnome list
One small note — since upcoming Qt5-5.15 will drop binary support for FreeBSD 11.x due to
outdated OpenSSL-1.0 in base, here is no reason to enable QT5 option on FreeBSD <12 by default
Thanks for all testers and supporters!
Dima, with office hat
Relnotes: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.4
Unfortunately, LibreOffice project completely dropped support for pre-C++11
compilers and libraries since 4.4. Therefore, we cannot easily build it on
FeeBSD 9.x any more unless the system was rebuilt with WITH_CLANG_IS_CC and
WITH_LIBCPLUSPLUS. If user is unable to upgrade the system for some reason,
the old port, i.e., 4.3.7, is still available from devel/libreoffice4 (with
no language packs).
- Speed staging phase by really installing to the stagedir directly
- Rework to use predefined targets for build and install
- Strip binaries
- Remove now unnecessary dependencies on autotools
- Add patches to fix crashes with icu 53.1
