LibreOffice monthly recap: December 2018

Here’s our regular recap of events and updates in the last month!

  • At the start of December, we wrapped up the Month of LibreOffice from November – and 345 sticker packs had been awarded, more than any other Month of LibreOffice in history! This reflects the thriving community around the software – learn more about the results here.

  • At our recent conference in Tirana, Albania, we sat down with Muhammet Kara from the Turkish LibreOffice community to talk about FOSS migrations in his home country and why he joined the membership committee. We finished editing the video in early December, so here it is!

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  • Meanwhile, the Taiwanese community held a Bug Hunting Session and Franklin Weng reported back about it. A big thanks to everyone who took part, and helped to make the next release of LibreOffice super reliable!

  • Want to make document compatibility in LibreOffice even better? Well, much of the compatibility – especially with legacy and proprietary file formats, is provided by the Document Liberation Project. So TDF’s marketing team made a quick video explaining how everyone can help:

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  • But we’re still maintaining the LibreOffice 6.1 branch, and released LibreOffice 6.1.4 on December 18 – it provides over 120 bug and regression fixes over the previous version.
  • Finally, we wrapped up the year with the LibreOffice 2018 Christmas Quiz! See how much you know about the software, its history, and the community behind it…

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