Currently the development builds are towards LibreOffice 6.5 (though given the big impact we wouldn't be surprised if it morphed into LibreOffice 7.0) and one of the features that landed at the end of November is the Cairo drawing being replaced by Skia and with that Vulkan-based rendering support for this free office suite.Īs written about at the end of November, in the LibreOffice 6.5/Git code is Skia drawing code to ultimately replace the Cairo code and with the use of Google's Skia graphics engine is not only CPU-based rasterization but also Vulkan GPU acceleration for the LibreOffice office software collection. While LibreOffice 6.4 isn't even coming out until the end of January, we are already stoked about the follow-on release to this open-source office suite.
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