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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  • In addition, we’ve started editing and uploading videos from the talks. Here’s the first batch – but there are many more to come, and we’ll put them on PeerTube too. (Apologies for the occasional video stutter in some places.)

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LibreOffice at Software Freedom Day celebrations in Nepal

  • We talked to Ritobroto Mukherjee about the work he’s doing to improve LibreOffice, as part of the Google Summer of Code. He also tells us about his experiences joining our community.

Ritobroto Mukherjee<

  • Then we caught up with Jonathan Clark, who recently joined the small team at The Document Foundation to work on improving LibreOffice’s language support, especially for RTL / CTL / CJK.

Jonathan Clark

  • On the release side, we had one update to LibreOffice in October – version 24.2.7, planned to be the last in the 24.2 branch. Then all users are strongly recommended to upgrade to the latest stable branch, LibreOffice 24.8.

LibreOffice 24.2 banner

Rafael Lima

  • And finally, we looked ahead to some upcoming and future events. The LibreOffice project will be at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels at the start of February, for instance. And thinking further ahead: we’re looking for people to host the LibreOffice Conference 2025!

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