The development of LibreOffice continues and although we do not usually receive large versions lately, the truth is that its development is more alive than ever. In a few days LibreOffice will release a new version that will succeed LibreOffice 5.4, but it will not be a version of the same branch but it will be a new branch.
The new version of the popular office suite will not be LibreOffice 5.5 but will be LibreOffice 6.0, being a new branch the one that will arrive to our teams during the next months.
This change in the numbering may announce the arrival of new and interesting functions to the free office suite. In this case we have the new interface and new functions that are pending and that would reach the office suite with LibreOffice 6.
LibreOffice 6 will have the new default interface
The new LibreOffice interface is now available to all users, however it is an option to choose. Thus, with LibreOffice 6 this interface can be the default interface and the classic one can be something that users can choose. The cloud version is also something that many users expect from Libreoffice, something that could come with LibreOffice 6 and that is possible since Collabora is nothing more than a version of LibreOffice with the desired cloud functions.
But all of this is just guesswork as we officially don't know anything. We only know that the LibreOffice team has renumbered the next version of the suite in its Git repository, going from 5.5 to 6 and being the successor to LibreOffice 5.4, the latest stable version of LibreOffice.
I personally use LibreOffice but like many users, I think the office suite has become somewhat obsolete, lacking functions such as cloud functions or an improved and optimized interface for the end user. Elements that already have suites such as Google's, Microsoft's or simply individual apps that help us in our activity from anywhere. We will have to wait to see what the new LibreOffice 6 is like, but everything indicates that it will be an interesting version Do not you think?