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mountaintrek

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libreoffice-still 25.2.7-2 eol

What are the plans for libreoffice-fresh and libreoffice-still?

The Arch Extra repo shows Libreoffice-still  version 25.2.7-2. It looks like this version is hitting its' EOL on November 30, 2025.

The Libreoffice download page shows:

Our previous release branch, which will be maintained until November 2025.

The Libreoffice blog shows:

The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.7, the final maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. Users of LibreOffice 25.2.x should update to LibreOffice 25.8.x, as LibreOffice 25.2.x is approaching the end of its support period.

The Libreoffice Release Plan wiki shows:

no more bugfix releases will be created from the 25.2 code branch by TDF
End of Life     Nov 30, 2025

seth

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Re: libreoffice-still 25.2.7-2 eol

Try to correlate https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … mmits/main with https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan
What makes you believe that pattern would no continue?

Idk what *will* happen but unless the orange man starts WW3 to distract from the Epstein files I suppose what's most likely to happen is that at some point (perhaps around christmas?) 26.2 will become libreoffice-fresh and 25.8 libreoffice-still because that follows what has happened over the past couple of years.

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tekstryder

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Re: libreoffice-still 25.2.7-2 eol

(perhaps around christmas?) 26.2 will become libreoffice-fresh and 25.8 libreoffice-still because that follows what has happened over the past couple of years.

This is curious given 26.2.0 (2026.February) won't be tagged for release until the first week of Feb next year.

Arch could opt to package the pre-release version, but that didn't happen for 25.8. It was packaged after upstream tag in August.

I would think LO should modify their support schedule to accommodate their new 6mo release cadence and naming convention. E.g. support every major release series for exactly one year.

Essentially, Arch fresh/still simply follows however upstream differentiates the two (stable/previous). Let's see what they do.

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Re: libreoffice-still 25.2.7-2 eol

Seth, let's leave geopolitics at the door.   Not something I want brought to mind when I visit the Arch Forums.  I'm pretty sure the four horses of the apocalypse are still in their paddocks.

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seth

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Re: libreoffice-still 25.2.7-2 eol

@tekstryder
According to https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/26.2 rc1 would ideally show up Week 51 , Dec 15, 2025 - Dec 21, 2025 but you're right - arch has always skipped the RCs and stalled the gap.
Not a problem as EOL doesn't mean it's gonna break apart the next day. But also not sure why, given that the still would serve as a fallback and someone has to test those RCs…

I'm pretty sure the four horses of the apocalypse are still in their paddocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time

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mountaintrek

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Re: libreoffice-still 25.2.7-2 eol

It will be interesting to see how it is handled for sure. I looked on git, lists, todo's and the wiki to see if there was any discussion or doc. I've been thinking of going to fresh. Looking at those libreoffice release dates, they are really moving.

Thank you for the discussion.

Update
LO versioning was a little fuzzy when it went from 7.6 to 24.2 last year The last bullet item on the ReleasePlan page is interesting. LO considers any version stable after x.x.3.  I did uninstall still and installed fresh because still had new features that were partially there, but fully functional in fresh, both in writer and calc.

As a result, users get a new major release every six months with a wide range of features, fixes and enhancements. They will also receive many bug-fixing micro releases. The first X.Y.0 release is intended for early adopters. More conservative users are advised to wait for a later X.Y.3/X.Y.4 bugfix release.

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