In 2018, 17,473 commits were made to the LibreOffice source code, from 223 authors. Here’s an overview of what they worked on… Behind the scenes of LibreOffice 6.2 Throughout the second half of 2018, the developer community worked on a new major release: LibreOffice 6.2. Details about the end-user-facing new
Year: 2019
What is the Open Document Format (ODF), and how is it developed?
Regina Henschel is a long-time member of the LibreOffice community, and has worked on ODF, the native file format of the suite. At our recent German community meetup, we talked to her about how ODF is developed, and how users can help to improve it… Tell us a bit about
Start developing LibreOffice! Download the source code, and build on Windows
Please don’t use these instructions in practice – they become obsolete over time. Instead, follow the wiki article for building on Windows. (This post was originally written in Hungarian by Adam Kovacs for his blog. Thanks Adam!) In our previous post in this series, we looked at building on Linux.
Community Member Monday: Jun Nogata
Today we’re talking to Jun Nogata from our Japanese community! To start, tell us a bit about yourself! So, I live in Himeji, Japan where UNESCO World Heritage site Himeji Castle is. I work a part-time lecturer at a local university. I am a big fan of free and open
Coming up: Second Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.3, on July 08
LibreOffice 6.3 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in early August 2019 – see the release notes describing the new features here. In order to find, report and triage bugs, the LibreOffice QA team is organizing the second Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice
The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.2.5
Berlin, July 4, 2019 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.2.5, the fifth bug and regression fixing release of the LibreOffice 6.2 family, targeted at tech-savvy individuals: early adopters, technology enthusiasts and power users. Users in production environments can start evaluating LibreOffice 6.2.5. LibreOffice’s individual users are helped by a