So we’re half-way through the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025. And already, 216 contributors have won cool LibreOffice sticker packs! Details on how to claim them will be provided at the end of the month, but if you don’t see your name (or username) o…
Co-founder Italo Vignoli shares insights on the tech, the community, and what’s next for LibreOffice. LibreOffice is a powerful open source office suite that supports all platforms: Windows, Mac, and... Read More
Shiny new features and improvements are coming to #LibreOffice! They're being developed by independent developers, who get some support as part of the Google Summer of Code: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2025. Adam Seskunas – Implement Report Builder in C++: replacing the current Java-based Report Builder with a new solution will improve maintainability and remove one of the last r…
Quality Assurance (QA) is a cornerstone of the LibreOffice project, thanks to the activity of a large number of volunteers and the feedback of many users who help in reporting bugs and regressions (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Rep…
Looking for something to do this weekend? Join the Month of #LibreOffice! Learn new things and expand your skillset – and get cool merch as a bonus: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Want to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way? Then get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate t…
General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) fixed displaying help for a particular module from the command line, updated help after changes to object boundaries options, improved help on BASIC format codes and added type information to BASIC help pages, …
Today we're releasing #LibreOffice 24.8.7, the last update to the older branch. After this, all users are recommended to upgrade to LibreOffice 25.2, the newer stable branch: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Berlin, 8 May 2025 – LibreOffice 24.8.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at …
"Milestone for digital sovereignty": 20 years of the Open Document Format (ODF)
The Document Foundation celebrates the 20th anniversary of adoption of ODF as an OASIS standard. This promotes global digital independence and interoperability.
Because of security vulnerabilities: LibreOffice advises against OpenOffice
The developers of LibreOffice advise against its competitor OpenOffice. The Apache software contains security vulnerabilities and is not being further developed
Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.
Join us in Budapest and tell us what you’re doing with LibreOffice! The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, presentations and workshops for this year’s LibreOffice conference in Budapest at ELTE’s Faculty of Info…
top tip: put link to #libreOffice before link to #openOffice so your toot shows the relevant project's logo - scrolling through I just saw OO's logo+website and thought: Ah no thanks.
Get more out of #LibreOffice by downloading the free guidebooks created by our awesome documentation community! Here's a recap of what they did in 2024, from our Annual Report: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
In 2024, the documentation community continued to update LibreOffice guidebooks, and the Help application (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.
Want to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way? Then get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate t…
Latest maintenance release brings improved stability and fixes to the powerful free office suite Berlin, 30 April 2025 – The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 25.2.
In April, we in the #LibreOffice community attended events in-person (giving away cool merchandise!). We also gave talks online, and announced the location of 2025's conference: 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 started the month by posting a video from Document Freedom Day celebrations with the Nepalese LibreOffice commu…
Coming up in May... But what's it about? Stay tuned to find out more. And you can get cool #LibreOffice merchandise including stickers, mugs and hoodies 😉 #foss #opensource
General Activities LibreOffice 25.2.2 and LibreOffice 24.8.6 were announced on March 27 Stanislav Horáček updated and improved UI and help texts Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) documented a new field that displays the page count for a range until the next…
(Translated from the Spanish original.) Juan C. Sanz writes: The Firebird database is distinguished by its unique features within the LibreOffice Base compatible database ecosystem.
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 the month by posting some extra videos from the open source tracks of the LibreOffice Conference 2024 i…
Berlin, 27 March 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the availability of LibreOffice 25.2.2, the second minor release of the recently announced LibreOffice 25.2 family [1], and LibreOffice 24.8.6, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 24.
LibreOffice 25.2 is our new major stable release, with many new features. This video which shows a few of them (also available on PeerTube) is in English but has subtitle translations in 17 languages, thanks to our awesome localisation communities! (…
Sometimes the smallest changes make a big difference. In future #LibreOffice versions, you can choose a currency from the drop-down with a direct click – no need to also click "OK". Learn more what our QA and Dev communities are doing: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource
It seems clear to me that the embarrassment lands squarely on the tech media, who should be far better at communicating "#OpenOffice is not what you're looking for, use #LibreOffice @libreoffice instead". That's firmly within the tech media's job.
The job of @TheASF lies primarily in maintaining software. Let them maintain whatever software, for as long as people want it maintained.
The LibreOffice Conference 2024, held in Luxembourg, welcomed also many speakers that are involved in creating, supporting and promoting Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in several countries.
This happened to me with MS Office Online. I began using it with my Hotmail account when if first came out. I had quite a few documents on it, then, one day, I received a message that I needed to pay for one of their plans to access my documents. That was the final time I ever used MS Office.
On the bright side, I already had #LibreOffice, so the switch was easy.
A talk from the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 in Luxembourg, with Patrick Weber. More details: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffic...
Berlin, 20 February 2025 – LibreOffice 24.8.5, the fifth minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available on our d…
