LibreOffice 5.4 released with new features for Writer, Calc and Impress

How long did it take them to release that security fix a year or so ago? Didn't it take them three months or so of hard work before they could even get OOo to compile so they could test it?

Sorry for the snark, but when OOo and LO split, about the only visible work at OOo was (a) the work converting (or rather auditing) the change from LGPL3 to Apache - thanks very much for that by the way - and (b) the very audible and highly noticeable sniping at LO by someone who really should have known better.

What's the saying - "technical debt will *always* come back to bite you in the bum"? And when it takes six months to fix a "you're pwned" security problem, that really is a bite in the bum!!!

Cheers,
Wol

The theory that if you don't take any patches nothing will break is defied by modern "always on" network-connected software.

To make the network safe for anybody at all, it must be dynamic, things that were unheard of become commonplace, and then mandatory, and eventually obsolete, the universe's general rule that change is obligatory because of Time's Arrow can be stalled on a small scale at great cost, but is unavoidable on the larger scale. If you don't take any patches somewhere between "unheard of" and "mandatory" your stuff breaks, if you don't take them between "mandatory" and "obsolete" your stuff either breaks or gets trapped in some weird time hole where it behaves strangely and nobody you can talk to understands why.