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Bit of a time-saver: LibreOffice emits 6.3 with new features, loading and UI boosts

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Geekz Snow
Bit of a time-saver: LibreOffice emits 6.3 with new features, loading and UI boosts

The Document Foundation has made some tweaks to improve file loading and save times in its word processor and spreadsheet programs in the latest version of LibreOffice, 6.3.

The open source office suite, which consists of word processor, spreadsheet, presentation graphics, diagramming tool and database manager and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, began in 2011 as a fork of Oracle's OpenOffice (now Apache OpenOffice).

The origins of the project go right back to the '80s, when it was a commercial Office suite called Star Office.

The previous version, 6.2, was released in February 2019.

This release fixes the security issue whereby documents could auto-run arbitrary system commands automatically on opening, thanks to a component called LibreLogo and its interaction with Python.

LibreLogo, intended for teaching programming, is still included by default on Windows, even though most users have no use for it.

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