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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.0.3 “fresh” and LibreOffice 4.4.6 “still”

libo-503-446-smallBerlin, November 3, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.0.3 “fresh”, the 4th release of the LibreOffice 5.0 family, and LibreOffice 4.4.6, the 7th release of the LibreOffice 4.4 family. So far, the LibreOffice 5.0 family is the most popular LibreOffice ever, based on feedback from journalists and end users.

LibreOffice 5.0.3 is more feature-rich, and as such is targeted to tech enthusiasts and power users, and LibreOffice 4.4.6 is targeted to more conservative users and enterprise deployments as it has been in widespread use for a longer time, and as such offers a better experience for document production.…

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LibreOffice 5.1 in final development stage

Over 19,000 commits from 300 developers in the last 12 months

Berlin, October 28, 2015 – LibreOffice 5.1 has officially entered the final stage of development with the release of the Alpha version, which is available to technology enthusiasts and community members for the 1st Bug Hunting Session organized from Friday, October 30, to Sunday, November 1.…

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First bug hunting session for LibreOffice 5.1

Bughuntban51Berlin, October 20, 2015 – The LibreOffice community is working on the next major release – planned for early February – with a bug hunting session focused on new features and fixes for bugs and regressions. The session will last 3 days, from October 30 to November 1, 2015, and check the first alpha of LibreOffice 5.1.…

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The Document Foundation welcomes RusBITech in the project Advisory Board

The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that RusBITech, a large Russian software development company focusing on open source software, has joined the Advisory Board.

RusBITech is a Research and Production Association (RPA) which develops and supports the Astra Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, targeted to the Russian public administration. LibreOffice is included in Astra Linux, and is one of the main applications for the users of the operating system.…

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Five years of LibreOffice

LibreOffice, the historyLibreOffice was launched as a fork of OpenOffice.org on September 28, 2010, by a tiny group of people representing the community in their capacity of community project leaders. At the time it was a brave – although necessary – decision, because it was rather clear to everyone that OpenOffice.org was not going to survive for a long time under Oracle stewardship.…

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Press Releases

Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.3

Berlin, 13 November 2025 - LibreOffice 25.8.3, the third minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity…

Open Document Format

Relaunching ODF Advocacy as ODF News

I decided to start the current campaign, with one blog post per week focusing on the different aspects of Open…