Hi, I am happily running Rocky Linux Workstation 8.5 as my day to day personal desktop.

I use LibreOffice (LO) daily and noticed it is version 6.4.7.2.

Knowing that LO is now in version 7, I had assumed that 6.4.7.2 is some long term support version. But is seems not to be.

From:

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It says:

Older versions of LibreOffice (no longer updated!) are available in the archive

and version 6.4.7.2 is in that archive and so I presume no longer updated. I had read that it stopped being supported at the end of 2020.

Which means my LO 6.4.7.2 is not longer maintained or updated and might have security issues.

And this made me wonder why RHEL 8.5 would use and outdated LO 6.4.7.2.

(I am assuming that RL 8.5 uses LO 6.4.7.2 because RHEL 8.5 uses it )

I had presumed that in RHEL 8, supported till 2029, that packages like LO would be updated as needed and older out of date versions would not be used.

But that seems not to be the case…

Why would RHEL use an out of date / unmaintained version of LibreOffice, that could have security issues?

Should I uninstall LO 6.4.7.2 and install LO 7.x?, as eg described here:

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If RHEL is using out of date LO then maybe it is using a lot of other out of date packages - is this a significant security risk?

Thanks ahead of time.