LibreOffice Conference will open on September 23 at noon CEST and will close on September 25 at 5:30PM CEST. The schedule has been finalized, and is available at the following link: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/schedule/. Of course, we may have last minute changes until September 12, when the schedule will be frozen. Sometime after that date, the schedule will also be available on Android mobiles (we will announce the availability of the app on Google Play and F-Droid in due time).…
Year: 2021
LibreOffice 7.2 Media Coverage
The announcement of LibreOffice 7.2 has got a large media coverage in many geographies. This is a list of some of the most significant articles in English.
- 9to5 Linux: LibreOffice 7.2 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
- The Register: LibreOffice 7.2 brings improved but still imperfect Microsoft Office compatibility
- OMG! Ubuntu: LibreOffice 7.2 Released with Big Performance Improvements
- ZDNet: New LibreOffice 7.2: More Office compatibility, but enterprise really should pay up
- Thurrot: LibreOffice 7.2 Arrives with Improved Microsoft Office Document Support
- BetaNews: LibreOffice 7.2 is here with a long list of changes and improvements
- Softpedia News: LibreOffice 7.2 Community Is Now Available for Download
- Neowin: LibreOffice 7.2 adds better support for Microsoft Office documents
- ITWire: LibreOffice 7.2 Community adds performance improvements to better handle and manage large files
- It’s FOSS: ‘LibreOffice 7.2 Community Version Released
- TekDeeps: Have you already tried the new LibreOffice 7.2 office suite?
LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2021
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 biggest news in August was the release of LibreOffice 7.2, which includes many new features, updates and fixes. Our Indonesian community created a video showcasing the changes (PeerTube version here).
Parabolas as custom shapes in LibreOffice
Regina Henschel writes…
Teachers of mathematics often need a parabola in their instructions or exercises. Creating a parabola by using a chart is cumbersome. Therefore I have generated some parabolas as custom shape for anyone to use. You can get them in this LibreOffice Writer document.
A simple parabola
A parabola with focus
And a parabola with tangent, where you can drag the point of contact
The parabola-shapes are contained in a document.…
The Writer Guide 7.2 just arrived
The new Guide comes one week after the release of the latest LibreOffice Community software
Jean H. Weber and Kees Kriek from the LibreOffice Documentation Team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Writer Guide 7.2, one week after the release of LibreOffice Community 7.2
LibreOffice 7.2 Community includes many changes not visible in the user interface.…
LibreOffice 7.2: A week in stats
One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 7.2, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too. So, what has happened in the week since then? Let’s check out some stats…
473,308 downloads
These are just stats for our official downloads page, of course – many Linux users will have acquired the new release via their distribution’s package repositories.…