LibreOffice 5.4 Office Suite Is Now Available as Flatpak and Snap Packages

LibreOffice 5.4 was released less than two weeks ago as the latest and greatest version of the open-source and cross-platform office suite for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems, but also the last point release for the LibreOffice 5 series as The Document Foundation will no focus their efforts on LibreOffice 6, which should bring massive improvements. Back to LibreOffice 5.4, the major release added a brand new file simplicity concept that makes the XML description of a new a document outputted by LibreOffice being with 50% smaller for ODF/ODT files and around 90% smaller for OOXML/DOCX files, as well as an extra layer of improvements to the Writer, Calc, and Impress components, which we’ve detailed in our in-depth report.