03 Oct 2023
LibreOffice project and community recap: September 2023
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…
- We started the month by highlighting upcoming events: the LibreOffice Conference 2023 (which has now finished – more on that in a moment); the Latin American Conference, and LibreOffice Conf.Asia.
- Next up, we had a bunch of LibreOffice Expert magazines to give away to schools and local communities. They’ve all been claimed now, but if you still want a copy, you can get one from the publisher.
- On September 11, we announced 1.5 million downloads of the new LibreOffice 7.6 family! And we had some more stats to share too…
- Then our Documentation community announced the LibreOffice Writer Guide 7.6 – an essential accompaniment to the software. Great work, everyone 😊
- This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more student developers into free and open source software development. Five projects were finished successfully. Students and mentors enjoyed the time, and we presented some of the achievements, which should make their way into LibreOffice 24.2 in early February 2024!
- The biggest event in September was the LibreOffice Conference 2023 in Bucharest, Romania. We had an awesome time, with talks, workshops and social meetups – more to come on this blog (including presentation videos) in the coming weeks!
- Finally, we released LibreOffice 7.6.2 and 7.5.7, important updates with security fixes. All users are recommended to update.
