The new version of LibreOffice 6.3.5 only fixes about 80 errors

The Document Foundation unveiled Few days ago the release of the new maintenance version from the LibreOffice 6.3.x branch, being this the fifth version maintenance released for this branch.

This new version of LibreOffice 6.3.5 comes two months after the LibreOffice 6.3.4 update and comes with a cumulative of fixes They are here to improve the overall stability, security, and compatibility of the open source, cross-platform office suite.

What's new in LibreOffice 6.3.5?

With the release of this new corrective version, Of all the changes included, these are related to bug fixes, of which a total of 84 bug fixes are included

Version 6.3.5 fixes a handful of crash causes and other issues in areas such as the user interface, the printing function, Microsoft Office format support, graphical display, and text editing.

Of the corrected errors that stand out we can find:

• Resizing a chart legend causes the chart body to reposition on top
• Solution in the PPTX format, no table style applied appeared, an incorrect alignment of the text in the images also appeared
• Solution in the .docx format: with the graphic is distorted and the legend overlaps with the graphic, as well as the lack of space increased in the Word 2013 style for the paragraph with anchored objects.
• Editing password protected non-ODF files creates multiple empty files in the backup directory.
• Fix where chart data ranges in Writer cannot be edited
• A document with indented bulleted paragraphs saved to DOCX in Writer 6.2.1 looks wrong, but is fine when saved to DOCX from Writer 6.2.0
• Fixed issues with rotated text not displaying correctly in a table
• Compressing PNG files with alpha channel results in a black background
• Solution to the problem that occurred when ordering multiple selected rows leads to CALC crashing

In addition, It is also mentioned that LibreOffice 6.3 will receive a last update at the end of April and that LibreOffice 6.3 will be supported until May of this year. As for the new branch of LibreOffice 6.4, this should wait until they have been released two or three more maintenance updates.

How to install Libre Office 6.3.5 on Ubuntu and derivatives?

This office automation package is included in most Linux distributions as well as Ubuntu and many of its derivatives. So for those who do not want to install, they can simply wait for the package to be updated within the repositories of its distribution.

For those who are interested in being able to obtain from this moment andthis new update, we can do the following.

First We must first uninstall the previous version if we have it, This is in order to avoid later problems, for this we must open a terminal and execute the following:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

To download the new LibreOffice 6.3.5 package, we are going to execute the following command:

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.3.5/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.3.5_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

Done the download now we can extract the content of the downloaded file with:

tar xvfz LibreOffice_6.3.5_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

We enter the created directory:

cd LibreOffice_6.3.5_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/

And finally we install the packages that are inside this directory with the following command:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Now We proceed to download the Spanish translation package with:

cd ..
cd ..
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.3.5/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.3.5_Linux_x86-64_deb_langpack_es.tar.gz

And we proceed to unzip and install the resulting packages:

tar xvfz LibreOffice_6.3.5_Linux_x86-64_deb_langpack_es.tar.gz
cd LibreOffice_6.3.5_Linux_x86-64_deb_langpack_es/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Finally, In case of having a problem with the dependencies, we can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get -f install

How to install LibreOffice using SNAP?

We also have the option to install from snap, the only drawback of installing by this method is that the current version has not been updated in Snap, so you will have to wait a few days for this to be resolved.

The command to install is:

sudo snap install libreoffice --channel=stable