The Document Foundation has just released LibreOffice 7.6 Community, a new version of the productivity and collaboration suite. Free and open sourceit has a lot of features for the vast majority of users and is one of the great alternatives to Microsoft Office.

Created to keep the OpenOffice project alive after it was taken over by Oracle following the purchase of Sun Microsystems, it is available in more than 120 languages, is compatible with a wide range of hardware architectures, and has versions for the major platforms: Windows, Linux and macOS.

As important as the above and considering the huge presence of Office, is compatible with file formats used by Microsoft and in fact, interoperability has improved noticeably since the release of major version 7.0. It has built-in tools for creating complex documents, books and websites, and hundreds of available templates and extensions to extend its functionality.

What’s new in LibreOffice 7.6

Don’t expect a revolution, but an improvement here and there to already excellent software. The same foundation responsible for its development comments on the situation: “After twelve years and five release cycles (cleaning code, refactoring code, polishing the user interface, expanding to new hardware and software platforms, and optimizing interoperability with OOXML to help users), it’s getting harder and harder to develop completely new features, so most of them are improvements or improvements to existing ones.”.

However, document themes are now compatible with all applications and there are more fixes for opening Microsoft Office documents. There are also special enhancements for the applications that make up the suite, the word processor Writer; Calc spreadsheets and Impress presentations. There are also minor news in other applications Draw (diagrams), Base (database) and Math (advanced formulas).

To be able to download LibreOffice 7.6 from the official site as the “Community” version, which is intended for personal use. The Document Foundation also offers enterprise version Available for businesses and other groups that need custom features and dedicated support. Try it! Open source, completely free and feature rich for the vast majority of users.