Does anyone know if we can expect Libreoffice 26.2 in Tumbleweed soon? It’s been out for a couple of weeks and it does have some nice new features I can really appreciate. Libreoffice seems to move particularly slow in TW compared to most other software. Is it for some reason tricky to compile for OpenSUSE?
openSUSE only provide libreoffice still, not fresh, so you have to wait until after the release of 25.8.5.
If you definitely need 26.2 version, you can use :
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Thanks, that explains. Added the rpm version; fortunately they coexist quite nicely. Still, interesting choice given that TW typically is pretty much cutting edge but they are choosing not to be in the case of LibreOffice.
Thanks again.
LibreOffice 26.2.1.1 is available with LibreOffice:Factory repo.
If you want, you can install it on Leap 16.0.
It is nice to delay here.
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I quite agree that some caution is always advised.
Today, 27.2.26 received notification that LibreOffice update 25.8.3-2.1 to 25.8.3-2.2 is released for Tumbleweed.
Looking at the LibreOffice release plan, I see that they have already released 25.8.5.2
So not jumping at the latest, like 26.2.1 is understandable as there are new features. But why be two releases behind on the 25 plan? 25.8.5.2 has just been released. As I understand all these releases are fixes only, so why the hesitation?
@OhBoy1 Hi and welcome to the Forum 
You would really need to ask the Maintainers…
It’s there (26.2), I suspect since there are some build errors, cleaning up before it gets pushed to Tumbleweed…
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/LibreOffice:Factory/libreoffice
A little aside…
For me, the really strange element is an old stable version compared to the competition.
@merinos Hi, Competition(?), I think you mean alternative distribution…
Correct, Leap 16.0 only provides that version 25.2.5.2, development for Leap 16.0 started some time back, it will receive fixes for bugs and security fixes. Likewise version numbers don’t change much over the lifetime, so need to see the change logs, likewise security scanners that only look at versions are always an issue…
For openSUSE snaps are not really supported, go with Flatpak on Leap 16.0 if really need later features, that version is already at 26.2.1.2, which is ahead of the alternative distribution snap release shown.
Let’s say that it makes me think that LibreOffice has been somewhat forgotten.
I don’t think it’s fair to say that LibreOffice has been forgotten. More goes into maintaining a package repository than just uploading the latest version of each package and hoping for the best.
Tumbleweed repositories might be delayed because of build issues or dependency conflicts. Leap repositories will be even more delayed because of the nature of a stable release distribution.
As has been pointed out, users who absolutely must have a newer version than what is provided in the repository are free to use flatpak or appimage releases, which are both provided by the LibreOffice team.
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You can’t compare Canonical Snaps to openSUSE zypper packages. Snaps are a self-contained image (like flatpaks, but tightly controlled by Canonical) the other is a package installed directly on the system. Snaps and flatpaks are easier to maintain and distribute because they are packaged with their own libraries, rather than relying on shared libraries on the user’s system.
If you need the newest version of anything and you don’t want to wait for it, flatpaks are the answer.
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I’m not talking about technology, and even less about religion, but about making a well-stabilized version of a product available to the end user who doesn’t care about technology.
And Flathub is not my cup of tea.
If an end user doesn’t care about technology (or religion, for that matter), then they really should use the flatpak. That’s practically its raison d’être. And it’s why both Gnome and KDE Plasma offer front-ends for flathub: It’s an easy way to provide software that the user wants when the user wants it and with as little hassle for the user as possible.
If you are opposed to using flatpaks, snaps or appimages, then you will need to wait a bit longer for the latest software OR learn at least enough tech to add external repositories (and deal with any of the bugs that might come up as a result of that).
You call Ubuntu “competition” (they aren’t) and claim that they are offering newer packages, but the latest version offered in the official apt repository for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is 24.2.7, while even the more bleeding edge Ubuntu 25.10 (which notably isn’t an LTS release) is 25.8.4, which is more or less the same as Tumbleweed.
Might I ask: Why are you so firmly against installing a flatpak? It lets you do exactly what you are trying to do. Are you also against using appimages? Why?
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???
Ubuntu is also not my cup of tea.
And my screenshot was about the snap package store… Not necessarily used by an Ubuntu distribution.
Anyway, back to the point… GIMP, for example, is totally up to date:
@merinos different maintenance streams and maintainer(s) timeline.
This is a community distribution, so you get packages when the Maintainer(s) think it’s ready and submit to openSUSE Factory, then it’s reviewed/accepted as well as passing openQA if required before it arrives in a Tumbleweed snapshot.
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And a snap package is functionally the same as a flatpak. If it were a comparison between the version of a release on Flathub to the version available in the Snap Store, then I could understand the comparison. My point is that comparing a snap release to a zypper repository package is comparing apples to oranges.
Likewise, comparing LibreOffice’s package release schedule to GIMP’s is comparing apples to… I don’t know… pears? GIMP may be more up-to-date because the maintainers didn’t find any build problems with the newest version of GIMP for Leap 16.0, but just because GIMP didn’t have any problems doesn’t mean LibreOffice doesn’t. They are completely different software using different libraries. Not to mention the fact that LibreOffice is much larger in scale than GIMP.
…I think this discussion is starting to stray from the original topic.
The answer to that question is: raisins to watermelons 
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Martin Schreiner (mschreiner) committed 12 days ago (revision 1256)
It is on Factory, so it is on its way to Tumbleweed, just be a bit patient folks 
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I do remember from ~10 years ago, that even on my dual-CPU with 2 Athlon X8 compiling LibreOffice took half a day.
