Announcement of LibreOffice 24.8.3, the office suite optimised for the privacy-conscious office suite user who wants full control over the information they share

Berlin, 14 November 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8.3, the third 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 80 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 24.8.2 [1] to improve the stability and robustness of the software, as well as interoperability with legacy and proprietary document formats.…

LibreOffice and Google Summer of Code 2024: The results

Google Summer of Code logo

This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more developers into free and open source software development. Seven projects were finished successfully, plus one project mentored under Linux Foundation. Contributors and mentors enjoyed the time, and here we present some of the achievements, which should make their way into LibreOffice 25.2 in early February 2025!…

Eight more videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2024

We’re editing and uploading more videos from our recent conference – these ones covering the Google Summer of Code, new Calc functions and optimisations, improvements to language support and more (use the icon in the top-right to choose videos from the playlist):

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Writer Guide 24.8 Released

Writer Guide 24.8

Jean H. Weber (photo) and the Documentation Team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Writer Guide 24.8, the latest update based on the recently released LibreOffice 24.8.

Writer is the word-processing application. It is compatible with a wide range of document formats including Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), and you can export your work in several formats including PDF.…

Art at the Tobacconist’s, with a Catalogue made with LibreOffice

Manuel Frassinetti is one of our heroic volunteers working on the localisation of LibreOffice, including the site and wiki, in Italian. During the day, Manuel runs a tobacco shop in Modena – the city where he was born and where he lives – where he organises exhibitions of works by local artists.

In 2023, after the conclusion of the tenth edition of Art at the Tobacconist’s, he decided to publish a catalogue of the eight exhibitions that took place in the first six months of the year, followed by a series of photos recalling the journeys he made together with his wife Patrizia, who passed away in 2022.…

LibreOffice project and community recap: October 2024

LibreOffice Conference 2024 group photo

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

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