The second release candidate of #LibreOffice 24.2 is now available! This will be our next major update, with a new "year.month" version scheme – so it'll arrive in February 2024. And it has a bunch of new features too, which you can help to test: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #opensource
LibreOffice 24.2 – with a new year.month versioning scheme – will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.
The Document Foundation – the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice – recently teamed up with the California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) to encourage students to learn about LibreOffice quality assurance (QA) and help out.
We start this year with @libreoffice Month. We cannot wait to see you next Wednesday at 6pm in our hackerspace for translating the Document Foundation's wiki in Albanian 💚 📎 📄
TXDon (aka Don Matschull) is a regular on our Ask LibreOffice website, helping users with their questions. He also maintains a YouTube channel with video tutorials about the suite, and has created courses on Udemy.
Spreadsheet column and row highlighting coming in #LibreOffice 24.2, our next major release! (With new "year.month" version scheme.) Enable it in Tools > Options > LibreOffice Calc > View. Thanks to Sahil Gautam from our community for implementing this feature 😊 #foss #opensource
Recently, The Document Foundation – the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, teamed up with the California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) to encourage students to learn about LibreOffice quality assurance (QA) and help out.
It's tantalisingly close! 😍 #LibreOffice 24.2 (with new "year.month" version scheme) is our next major update – due in February. And now the first release candidate is available for testing: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource
LibreOffice 24.2 – with a new year.month versioning scheme – will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.
LibreOffice can open files in a wide range of formats – but its native one is the Open Document Format (ODF). And now there's an update to the ODF Toolkit, a set of Java modules for programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of ODF files: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #libreoffice #standards #foss #OpenSource
ODF is the Open Document Format, the native format used by LibreOffice (and supported by many other apps too). It has various sub-formats such as .odt for text files, .ods for spreadsheets, and .odp for presentations.
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started December by announcing the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2023.
Our next major release will be #LibreOffice 24.2 (with new "year.month" version scheme), in February. And it has usability improvements, thanks to our community! For instance, a new search field in the Functions sidebar deck in Calc, from Rafael Lima: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Re…
Suraj Bhattarai, our Liaison for the LibreOffice Nepali Community, sent us this report: In October 2023, the LibreOffice Nepali Community organized an online localization event.
See this map? It shows just some of the #LibreOffice community members around the world, who do great work to make the suite better and better. Like Dominique Prieur, for instance: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Today we’re talking to Dominique Prieur, who recently became a member of The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice… Hi! Tell us a bit about yourself… I’m French (and my English is too poor and too bad).
Our next big update is #LibreOffice 24.2 in February (with new "year.month" version scheme). And here's one of the new features: extra description text in the Special Characters dropdown menu, added by Jim Raykowski: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Re… #foss #OpenSource
Coming up in February: #LibreOffice 24.2, our next big update, with many new features! (And a new "year.month" version scheme, to make it clear when it was released.) The first Beta version is now available for testing: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource
LibreOffice 24.2 – with a new year.month versioning scheme – will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.2 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 24.
Suraj Bhattarai is our Liaison in the Nepali community. And together with other local open source communities, he recently concluded the "#LibreOffice Localisation Sprint 2023". Awesome work! More to come on our blog soon... #foss #opensource
Coming up in #LibreOffice 24.2, our next major release (with new "year.month" version scheme): big improvements to the Navigator, thanks to Jim Raykowski! Hidden headings are now greyed out, and nested sections can now be collapsed, just like headings: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Re… #foss #OpenSource
Stay fresh: #LibreOffice 7.6.4 and 7.5.9 are now available for download. All users of the 7.6 and 7.5 branches are recommended to update: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Berlin, December 7, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.6.4 Community and LibreOffice 7.5.9 Community are immediately available from www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows (Intel/AMD/ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux [1].
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.8 was released on November 2 LibreOffice 7.6.3 was released on November 23 Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated menu item paths in Help pages and updated and restructured dozens of help pages Rafael Lima updated ScriptForge…
The Documentation Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Calc Guide release 7.6. The Calc Guide 7.6 update was coordinated by Steve Fanning, with assistance of Olivier Hallot and B.
Who makes #LibreOffice? Hundreds of people around the world – volunteers, developers in the ecosystem, and more. Robert Cabane here is part of our Quality Assurance (QA) project – and you can join it too: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Today we’re talking to Robert Cabane, who helps out in LibreOffice’s Quality Assurance (QA) community: Tell us a bit about yourself! I’m now retired (aged 71), living in Bordeaux, France.
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Our next big release will be #LibreOffice 24.2, in February 2024! (We're moving to a "year.month" version scheme, to make it more clear when the software was released.) And the first Alpha development build is now available for testing: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #opensource
LibreOffice 24.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 24.2 started in mid June, 2023.
We recently attended the ICTer International Conference in Sri Lanka, to present #LibreOffice during a keynote speech, and to manage a two day workshop about LibreOffice and the Migration Protocol: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We kicked off November with the Month of LibreOffice, November 2023, a campaign we run every six months.
Funny... for me you start now with arbitrary numbers... 😉
What about using something like "Edition 2023, Version 7.6"?
And btw. i assume, it is possible to develop add-ons for #LibreOffice... how do they check a matching version? As something like "works with 7.x" (checking on major version 7 in the source code) would be no longer possible, right?
And are you sure, that end users will recognize 24.2 as February 2024? 😉
#LibreOffice 24.2 will be our next major update, coming in February! 🎉 (New versioning scheme, to show the year and month when it's released.) A big new feature is styles for comments, added by Maxim Monastirsky: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Re… #foss #OpenSource
