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# LibreOffice 24.8 Release Adds a New Privacy Feature
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/libreoffice-24-8-release/
- Published: 2024-08-23T10:14:30.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-23T10:14:30.000Z
- Description: LibreOffice 24.8 is getting better with meaningful improvements.
- Author: Sourav Rudra
- Tags: Open Source, News, #Import 2025-11-08 21:15

Many of you may be familiar with [LibreOffice](https://www.libreoffice.org/?ref=itsfoss.com), the open-source office suite which is a safe haven for those moving away from the hold of Microsoft Office, a proprietary piece of software.

No doubt, a large chunk of the global population knows and uses MS Office. But, open options such as LibreOffice, ONLYOFFICE, OpenOffice, etc. make it easier for people to access a fully fledged office suite with all the essential features.

After switching to a new version naming scheme earlier this year, LibreOffice now has a new release with important upgrades, including a privacy-focused one. 

So, let's check it out. 😃

## 🆕 LibreOffice 24.8: What's New?

The new features in this release were made possible due to **the work of 171 contributors**, with 57% of code commits coming from 49 developers who work for companies on The Document Foundation [advisory board](https://www.documentfoundation.org/advisory-board/?ref=itsfoss.com).

We start with the **new privacy-focused feature** that allows personal information like author names, timestamps, printer names, editing duration, and configuration to be removed whenever a draft is saved.

![a screenshot of the new remove personal information on saving option in libreoffice 24.8](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/08/LibreOffice_24.8_a.png)

But, it is **disabled by default**. You can enable it by going into *Tools* \> *Options* \> *LibreOffice* \> *Security* \> *Security Options* \> *Remove personal information on saving*. This should be a great feature for situations where you don't want such details out in public.

On the **editor side of things**, Writer now has a new “Find” deck in the sidebar that allows for easy viewing of quick searches. It can be brought up by using the default *Alt* + *9* keyboard shortcut.

![a screenshot of the new find deck in sidebar of writer on libroffice 24.8](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/08/LibreOffice_24.8_b.png)

There's also improved support for multi-page floating tables, better rendering of text in CJK writing systems with font fallback, and a fix for an issue with shape positioning in DOCX imports for RTL paragraphs.

After that, there are the **improvements to Calc**, which include things like the newly added support for importing/exporting OOXML pivot table format definitions, better localization of the status bar, and the ability to delete comments using right-click menu.

![a screenshot of libreoffice 24.8 improved conditional formatting for calc](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/08/LibreOffice_24.8_c.png)

Moreover, you get **new functions** like LET, XLOOKUP, and XMATCH, with better threaded calculation performance, and more flexible choices for comparison operators, as shown above.

**Impress also received many upgrades**, with some interesting ones including a new “Notes Pane” for notes, which, when enabled, will show a collapsible pane just under the slide. It can be enabled from the “*View*” menu.

![a screenshot of libreoffice 24.8 new notes pane in impress](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/08/LibreOffice_24.8_d.png)

And, lastly, the included bundled templates from the Indonesian community now feature localized placeholders instead of the generic lorem ipsum text, and opening custom shape-heavy PPTX files is now faster.

### 🛠️ Other Changes and Improvements

Then there are the rest of the changes, with some notable ones including:

- New chart types, “*Pie-of-Pie*” and “*Bar-of-Pie*”.
- An official package for ARM-based Windows PCs.
- Support for adding tiling patterns in imported PDF files on Draw.
- Introduction of a high performing password-based ODF encryption.
- Chinese and Japanese word selection in Math now being based on [ICU](https://icu.unicode.org/home?ref=itsfoss.com) rules.

For more details, you can give the official [release notes](https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.8?ref=itsfoss.com) a read.

**Suggested Read** 📖

[15 LibreOffice Tips to Get More Out of itLibreOffice is an excellent office suite. These LibreOffice tips will enable you to use it more effectively.![](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/android-chrome-192x192.png)It's FOSSAbhishek Prakash![](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/wordpress/2017/12/LibreOffice-logo.jpeg)](https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-tips/)

### ⚙️ How to Install/Upgrade?

The most straightforward way for getting this release on Linux is to install it from the [Flathub store](https://flathub.org/apps/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice?ref=news.itsfoss.com). For other packages, the [official website](https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/?ref=itsfoss.com) is the place to go.

[LibreOffice 24.8](https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/?ref=itsfoss.com)

**For existing users**, if you are running the Flatpak, then you can update it from your app store or by running the following command:

```
flatpak update org.libreoffice.LibreOffice
```

If you went for the *tar.gz* package, then you should refer to the upgrade instructions mentioned in my [coverage](https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-24-2-is-here/) of the earlier LibreOffice 24.2 release.

*💬 Do you like using LibreOffice? Use some other open-source office suite? Let me know below!*