Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

I'm puzzled by this. We stopped using the "redhat" packages getting on for a decade ago. They're usually a few years behind upstream: any value added by the packaging doesn't compensate for the missing features, and the fact that the RH packages are unsupported as far as upstream is concerned (e.g. security fixes).

I would be surprised if any serious LO users weren't using the upstream RPMs (or other package formats) - either community edition, or, if really serious, the business supported ones).

RHEL 9, Centos 9, Alma 9 has LO 7.1 This was released in Feb 21. 7.5 and 7.4 are the currently supported versions. 7.4 is the bugfix only "stable" version - released in June 22. 7.6 is due for release in August, at which point 7.4 will be unsupported, while RHEL will still be on 7.1

Dropping out of date packages seems sensible to me.

(The only niggle I have with the LO packages is that they aren't signed, but they've been reliable and integrated enough into the "redhat" environment that I'd completely forgotten that RH have their own packaged versions until this announcement).