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Second bug hunting session for LibreOffice 5.1

noun_83830_ccBerlin, November 17, 2015 – Quality Assurance activity on LibreOffice 5.1 – planned for release in early February – is making progress with the second bug hunting session focused on new features and fixes for bugs and regressions. The session will last 3 days, from December 4 to December 6, 2015, and will be focused on the beta of LibreOffice 5.1.

On those dates, mentors will be available from 08AM UTC to 10PM UTC to help less experienced volunteers to triage bugs, on the QA IRC channel and via email on the QA mailing list.

Those who cannot join during the bug hunting session are always welcome to help chasing bugs and regressions when they have time. The bug hunting activity will continue with Release Candidates in December and January.

Builds of LibreOffice 5.1 pre-releases are already available from this link: http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/. Additional information are available here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugHunting_Session_5.1.0_Beta.

FOSDEM Devroom Call for Papers

downloadFOSDEM 16 will be held at the ULB Campus Solbosch on Saturday, January 30, and Sunday, January 31, 2016.

Open document editors are coming again to FOSDEM with a shared devroom which gives every project in this area a chance to present ODF related  developments and innovations. The devroom is jointly organized by Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice.

We invite submission of talks for the Open Document Editors devroom, to be held on Saturday, January 30, from 10:30AM to 6;30PM.

Length of talks should be limited to 20 minutes, as we would like to have questions after each presentation, and to fit as many presenters as possible in the schedule. Exceptions must be explicitly requested and justified.

Technical talks (code, extensions, localization, QA, tools and adoption related cases) about open document editors or the ODF document format are welcome.

Submissions must be done by the speakers using the Pentabarf system: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16/

While filing your proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a short abstract (one or two paragraphs), some information about yourself (name, bio and photo, but please do remember that your profile might be already stored at Pentabarf) and specify what topic (Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice, other ODF editors, ODF in general…) your talk is about.

You do not need to create a new account if you already have one. If the password has been lost, you can easily recover it.

Presenting at FOSDEM implies giving permission to be recorded. The recordings will be published under the CC-BY license.

The deadline is Monday, December 7, 2015. Accepted speakers will be notified by December 15, 2015.

You can send any questions to the devroom mailing list: open-document-devroom@lists.fosdem.org.

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.

All LibreOffice users should update their software at least to LibreOffice 4.4.6, for security reasons.

The Document Foundation strongly suggests to deploy LibreOffice in enterprises and large organizations with the backing of professional support by a certified individual (http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/).

Both software packages include many fixes introduced since the previous version, which are listed on change logs for people interested in technical details:

For 5.0.3: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/5.0.3/RC1 (fixed in RC1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/5.0.3/RC2 (fixed in RC2).

For 4.4.6: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.4.6/RC1 (fixed in RC1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.4.6/RC3 (fixed in RC3).

Download LibreOffice

LibreOffice 5.0.3 and LibreOffice 4.4.6 are available for download from the following webpages: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ and http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-still/.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation with a donation at http://donate.libreoffice.org.

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.

LibreOffice 5.1 starts twice as fast than the previous version, and adds to the usual incremental interoperability improvements with MS Office file formats (including MS Office 2016) some nice features, such as the Chart Sidebar to change settings in a more intuitive way, an easier workflow with Google Drive, OneDrive and SharePoint, and a Style Menu in Writer which will help user to access this fundamental LibreOffice feature.

The first release candidate of LibreOffice 5.1 will be available in mid December, and will be the first version to offer a good overview of all the features for product reviews and deployment evaluations (not to be used for the production of real documents).

In January 2016, a second and a third release candidate will come before the final availability of the application in early February, just after FOSDEM 2016 (where LibreOffice developers will provide all the technical details about the new and improved software features).

During the last 12 months, around 300 developers have hacked the LibreOffice source code, providing over 19,000 commits (corresponding to a weekly average of 375 commits).

Download LibreOffice

LibreOffice 5.0.2, the current “fresh” version, is available for download from this link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/. LibreOffice 4.4.5, the current “still” version, is available for download from the following link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-still/.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation with a donation at http://donate.libreoffice.org.

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.

On those dates, mentors will be available from 08AM UTC to 10PM UTC to help less experienced volunteers to triage bugs, on the QA IRC channel and via email on the QA mailing list.

Those who cannot join during the bug hunting session are always welcome to help chasing bugs and regressions when they have time. There will be a second bug hunting session in December, to test LibreOffice 5.1 Release Candidate 1.

Builds of LibreOffice 5.1 Alpha 1 are already available from this link: http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/. Additional information are available here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugHunting_Session_5.1.0.0.

LibreOffice Conference 2016 in Brno (Czech Republic)

Brno-ViewfromSpilberkBerlin, October 12, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces that the next LibreOffice Conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Information Technology @ Brno University of Technology (http://www.fit.vutbr.cz ) and jointly organized with OpenAlt (https://openalt.org) and Red Hat Czech (http://cz.redhat.com), from September 7 to September 9, 2016. The community will gather from September 6 for a number of internal meetings.

The Brno University of Technology is one of the largest and most influential IT universities in the Czech Republic. OpenAlt is a Czech not for profit organization which promotes the free software ethos and culture in the country. Red Hat Czech is a software development lab with over 700 employees (the largest development facility within the company).

Brno is the capital of Moravia and the second largest city in the Czech Republic, with a population of about 400.000.

The local team is staffed by Jiří Eischmann, Jaroslav Řezník and Jan Štafa from Red Hat and OpenAlt; Ladislav Nešněra, Jan Pacner and Jiří Beránek from Open Alt; and Miloš Šrámek from the LibreOffice community.

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