The second major update to the LibreOffice 6 series, LibreOffice 6.2, is tentatively scheduled for release in early February and will likely be the first version of this acclaimed office suite to drop support for 32-bit architectures.
While The Document Foundation assures users of its suite that 32-bit versions of past editions will always be available on the official website, the company states that there will be no more future builds for this architecture.
We have yet to see if LibreOffice 6.2 will be the first version of this suite without 32-bit compilations because TDF hasn't made it official yet. Current builds are still offered in 32-bit.
In addition to 32-bit builds, the company also decided to leave behind the KDE 4 and GTK + 2 VCL backend, which will be removed from LibreOffice 6.2.
The first bug hunt took place on October 22
LibreOffice 6.2 will introduce many changes and enhancements throughout the suite, including better export and import of PPT and PPTX documents, better rendering of animations, basic support for KDE Plasma 5 accessibility, as well as several changes for Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw.
Meanwhile, the LibreOffice team joined forces to conduct the first bug hunt on October 22nd using the first alpha version of LibreOffice 6.2. If you're interested in learning more about this event, you can consult the wiki where all the information is available.
There is no date yet for the second bug hunt , but it will most likely be next month along with the release of a second alpha version.