LibreOffice 24.2 is preparing many new features for this best free software office suite, besides also shifting to a year-month based versioning scheme. LibreOffice 24.2 has been working on improved multi-page floating tables, Small Caps for LibreOffice Impress, "save auto-recovery information" is now enabled by default, "always create backup copies" is also now enabled by default, there is now a password strength meter when saving documents with a password, and various other improvements. More details on the LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha changes can be found in this earlier article .
Ahead of the stable LibreOffice 24.2 release in early February, LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 can be tested with the newly-produced binaries via the LibreOffice QA area . So far there have been more than 4.2k commits for v24.2 and more than 787 bug fixes.