From a brief skim, it looks like 7.6 is their LTS, and 24.2 is stable?
Why not SemVer? It would look so simple and logical. I don’t need to know the release year as an user, stability and convenience is what I looking for. I can decide, update this thing it not, just by looking at major version number, but date tells me nothing about backward compatibility
but date tells me nothing about backward compatibility
The date IS the major/minor version. Knowing when the thing was released is bonus metadata. A lot of people find it useful.
Okay, so be it. I want to emphasize that the purpose of numbering has shifted from technical to marketing. For development purposes, it was better before.
I’m still saucy (in magnitude, bechamel not mole) that the version numbering is yy.n (24.2) and not yy.nn (24.02). The actual versioning combines the “was there a version .1?” problem with a sorting issue if there’s both 24.2 and 24.10.
Why single zero though? Why not 24.002? With single 0 you will still encounter sorting issue past version 24.99 (if there was one).
Technically, this numbering scheme conforms with semantic versioning where
1.9.0 -> 1.10.0 -> 1.11.0
If that’s the case, I’m less saucy, but my understanding was that the numbers were based on the release month. (Noting for emphasis that I cannot overstate the absolutely minimal nature of my irritation and that it doesn’t detract even a whisker from my appreciation of Libreoffice! It’s almost, but not quite, tongue in cheek.)
TIL the version numbering scheme changed. LibreOffice 24 is the next major version after LibreOffice 7.
