2024 – The Documentation Team Made LibreOffice Shine

2024 was a prolific year for the LibreOffice documentation.

With many guides updated and the application Help tracking closely the latest LibreOffice release, the team made all efforts to keep the pace of the development, bringing the new features to the public in the set of books, Help online and more.

To all the nice team, our Big Thank you!

LibreOffice 24.8.4, optimised for the privacy-conscious user, is available for download

Berlin, 19 December 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8.4, the fourth 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 www.libreoffice.org/download.

The release includes over 55 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 24.8.3 [1] to improve the stability and robustness of the software, as well as interoperability with legacy and proprietary document formats.…

24 more videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2024!

We’ve finished editing and uploading another batch of videos from our recent conference in Luxembourg. Now the playlist has a total of 51 videos and is almost entirely complete! (There are a couple more that we’re chasing up.)

So, enjoy watching and learning about the technology and community behind the suite. Use the icon in the top-right to choose videos from the playlist:

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Season’s Greetings! Three new LibreOffice Guides released

Our team member Peter Schofield just updated the Impress, Draw and Math guides to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 release.

Three Guides released

 

The Impress, Draw and Math guides are the authoritative guides for the end user. They cover presentation, drawings and equation documents. These guides are part of the LibreOffice community offering for the public in general that needs to close the knowledge gap in using LibreOffice.…

LibreOffice at LinuxDays 2024 in Prague

LibreOffice booth at LinuxDays 2024 in Prague

Our Czech community provides insights from the LinuxDays 2024 conference, which took place over the weekend of 12 – 13 October in Prague:

At the LibreOffice booth, there was a very large group of people (with a few exceptions) of satisfied LibreOffice users, of which young people (primary and secondary school students) were represented in surprisingly large numbers.…

LibreOffice project and community recap: November 2024

LibreOffice project and community recap banner

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • The main theme of November was the Month of LibreOffice, saying thanks for community contributions all across the LibreOffice project – coding, documentation, QA, design and more. At the end of the month we announced the results with 301 contributors eligible to receive sticker packs!