The Annual Report of The Document Foundation for the year 2021 is now available in PDF format from TDF Nextcloud in two different versions: low resolution (12.2MB) and high resolution (31.6MB). The annual report is based on the German version presented to the authorities in April.
Author: Italo Vignoli
LibreOffice 7.3.5 Community available for download
Berlin, July 21, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.3.5 Community, the fifth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.3 family, targeted at personal productivity users, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download. Users of previous versions of LibreOffice should update immediately, as this is now the release suggested for deployment in production environments.
The LibreOffice 7.3 family offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, starting with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats in the areas of security and robustness – to superior support for DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.
Microsoft files are still based on the proprietary format deprecated by ISO in 2008, which is artificially complex, and not on the ISO approved standard. This lack of respect for the ISO standard format may create issues to LibreOffice, and is a huge obstacle for transparent interoperability.
LibreOffice for enterprise deployments
For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners, with long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features and Service Level Agreements: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business
LibreOffice Community and the LibreOffice Enterprise family of products are based on the LibreOffice Technology platform, the result of years of development efforts with the objective of providing a state of the art office suite not only for the desktop but also for mobile and the cloud.
Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud. They may have a different name, according to each company brand strategy, but they share the same LibreOffice unique advantages, robustness and flexibility.
Availability of LibreOffice 7.3.5 Community
LibreOffice 7.3.5 Community is the best office suite for personal productivity, and is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows, macOS (for Apple and Intel processors) and Linux.
LibreOffice 7.3.5 change log pages are available on TDF’s wiki: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.3.5/RC1 (changed in RC1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.3.5/RC2 (changed in RC2). Over 80 bugs and regressions have been solved.
LibreOffice Technology based products for Android and iOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios, while for App Stores and ChromeOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores
LibreOffice individual users are assisted by a global community of volunteers: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos. Donations help the project to make all of these resources available.
LibreOffice users are invited to join the community at https://ask.libreoffice.org, where they can get and provide user-to-user support. People willing to contribute their time and professional skills to the project can visit the dedicated website at https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org.
LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can provide financial support to The Document Foundation with a donation via PayPal, credit card or other tools at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.
LibreOffice 7.3.5 is built with document conversion libraries from the Document Liberation Project: https://www.documentliberation.org.
LibreOffice 7.3.4 Community has been released
Berlin, June 9, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.3.4 Community, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.3 family, targeted at technology enthusiasts and power users, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/.
The LibreOffice 7.3 family offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, starting with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats in the areas of security and robustness – to superior support for DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.
Microsoft files are still based on the proprietary format deprecated by ISO in 2008, which is artificially complex, and not on the ISO approved standard. This lack of respect for the ISO standard format may create issues to LibreOffice, and is a huge obstacle for transparent interoperability.
LibreOffice for enterprise deployments
For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners, with long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features and Service Level Agreements: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.
LibreOffice Community and the LibreOffice Enterprise family of products are based on the LibreOffice Technology platform, the result of years of development efforts with the objective of providing a state of the art office suite not only for the desktop but also for mobile and the cloud.
Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud. They may have a different name, according to each company brand strategy, but they share the same LibreOffice unique advantages, robustness and flexibility.
Availability of LibreOffice 7.3.4 Community
LibreOffice 7.3.4 Community is the best office suite for personal productivity. With the LibreOffice 7.2 family approaching the end of life, all users are invited to upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
LibreOffice 7.3.4 change log pages are available on TDF’s wiki: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.3.4/RC1 (changed in RC1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.3.4/RC2 (changed in RC2). Over 80 bugs and regressions have been solved.
LibreOffice Technology based products for Android and iOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/, while for App Stores and ChromeOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/
LibreOffice individual users are assisted by a global community of volunteers: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos. Donations help the project to make all of these resources available.
LibreOffice users are invited to join the community at https://ask.libreoffice.org, where they can get and provide user-to-user support. People willing to contribute their time and professional skills to the project can visit the dedicated website at https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org
LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can provide financial support to The Document Foundation with a donation via PayPal, credit card or other tools at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate
LibreOffice 7.3.4 is built with document conversion libraries from the Document Liberation Project: https://www.documentliberation.org
Index of Training Videos about LibreOffice
In order to make it easier for users to find training videos about LibreOffice, we have created a comprehensive index updated to the end of April 2022 using the open source Zotero bibliography and reference management software.
The index is published on this blog in the Media Hub section (clicking on the Media Hub menu, you will open a drop down menu with Press Releases and Index of Videos).
At the moment, indexed videos are only in English (although there are also videos in other languages, which have still to be indexed), and have been grouped by topic: LibreOffice, LibreOffice Writer, LibreOffice Calc, LibreOffice Impress, LibreOffice Draw, LibreOffice Base, LibreOffice Math, LibreOffice Interviews and LibreOffice Talks.
The next task is to create an index of documents relevant for The Document Foundation and LibreOffice, covering topics such as open source software, open standards, change management, sustainability, interoperability, digital citizenship, migrations, openness, digital sovereignty and document formats, to mention only the most important. The objective is to provide educational materials to all LibreOffice stakeholders, as a background for training and presentations, or as a simple but comprehensive source of information.
May 2022, Month of LibreOffice Awards
In May 2022, LibreOffice has received two Awards: SourceForge’s Open Source Project of the Month, and Software Informer’s Editor’s Pick.
This is a partial screenshot of the current SourceForge home page: https://sourceforge.net/ and this is SourceForge’s LibreOffice download page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libreoffice/
This is Software Informer’s home page: https://software.informer.com/ and this is Software Informer’s LibreOffice download page: https://libreoffice.informer.com/
Sponsorship Package for LibreOffice Conference 2022
The Sponsorship Package for the LibreOffice Conference 2022 in Milan is now available:
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