The README file within the .dmg states that "* MacOSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or higher" is required, but the LibreOffice app needs 10.9 to launch (according to my system running OSX 10.8.5).
@cloph : I thought we still produced builds that ran on 10.8 ? Or did we recently change that ?
I have the same issue. I somehow hope the problem is *not* with the README, but with the build instead and that the build is actually still supposed to work with OSX 10.8.5.
Two separate reports - confirming
See also the release notes : https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.4 in which it states that the next release requires OSX 10.9 as a minimum. However, this doesn't seem to appear on the download page : 10.8 or newer required
Also, there is the little "LibreOffice update available" icon popping up in the menu bar, which probably should not happen, if there is no compatible update. Else everyone will go ahead, download the new version, just to find out, that it is not supported.
I looked at the release notes and for this line in the revision history, there is a note that says "add platform compatibility, mac os x 10.8 support will be removed in 5.5" (dated 2017-04-13T15:14:31). The French version of the release notes also states more explicitly that version 6.0 will require Mac OS X version 10.9, so I believe that the build system is wrong and that this bug "Component" should be reclassified (not a "Documentation" bug but a build system bug). LO version 5.4 should indeed be available for Mac OS X 10.8.
How can we make this matter advance? The previous post suggesting the bug be reclassified as "build system bug" instead of "documentation bug" didn't receive any reply. What now?
We are now at version 5.4.5.1 and the matter didn't receive ANY reply. It doesn't seem overly complex to correct the build process in order to have OS X 10.8 included in the targets. Remember that it's the last version supposed to work with 10.8, so it's particularly important that the announced requirements are followed.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.4 under Mac it states that 10.8 "is deprecated and the next release will require at least Mac OS X 10.9" That could be intepreted to mean that 5.4.5 is the next release, and therefor does not include support for 10.8.
More recent release notes say 10.9, like https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0 . Can this be closed? Do we still claim 10.8 anywhere?
I've downloaded the latest master build and the README file in the .dmg states: System Requirements ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * MacOSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or higher
I guess this should be changed accordingly here -> https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/readlicense_oo/docs/readme.xrm#37
Patch submitted to gerrit: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/55061/
Xisco Fauli committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=272577e68abe764ab05fe227e3cd7d185c59a900 tdf#111988 Bump OSX version in README It will be available in 6.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Cherry-picked to 6-1 and 6-0
Xisco Fauli committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-1": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f36ee4afb97ff61c65e197876767bfb6d80c07cc&h=libreoffice-6-1 tdf#111988 Bump OSX version in README It will be available in 6.1.0.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Xisco Fauli committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=59fd3e52a2d213f6858b83d36c99b1a970ef0835&h=libreoffice-6-0 tdf#111988 Bump OSX version in README It will be available in 6.0.5. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.