LibreOffice 7.5 introduced a new Dark Mode, activated automatically to match your system settings. But many of you asked for a manual switch, so our Design community has implemented it for the next update – LibreOffice 7.5.1, in two weeks!
Author: Mike Saunders
LibreOffice at the Univention Summit 2023
Thorsten Behrens and Lothar Becker from the LibreOffice community attended the recent Univention Summit 2023 in Bremen, northern Germany. They had a stand with LibreOffice merchandise, talked to visitors and answered questions. Lothar summarised the event:
It was well attended. Many known contacts, as well as new visitors, came by the stand and informed themselves or asked about LibreOffice – but also its availability in app stores for all platforms. Other topics that we frequently addressed at the stand included LibreOffice Technology, i.e. subscription versions from ecosystem partners, and their integration, e.g. in document management systems, where we were also able to refer people to the Collabora stand. Overall, it was emphasised again and again that it is important to have the project present at such an event.
Thanks to Thorsten and Lothar for attending! We plan to attend many more events this year – keep an eye on this blog for updates!
Love ❤️ for the LibreOffice community
Today is I love Free Software Day, and we at The Document Foundation would like to say a huge thank you to everyone in the LibreOffice community! Whether you’re involved in development, QA, design, translations, marketing, infrastructure or any other projects – we ❤️ your support. Let’s keep doing awesome things together!
Help to translate LibreOffice into Saraiki!
LibreOffice is available in over 100 languages thanks to the great work of our localisation communities. And there’s always room for more! Recently, one LibreOffice user offered to translate into Saraiki, so let’s hear from him, to learn a bit more about the language:
Hello! I am Parvez Qadir, a native of Pakistan, and a Saraiki language translator in WordPress, Mozilla and other projects. I’m also an admin on the Saraiki Wikipedia and Saraiki Wiktionary.
Saraiki is a common language in the central region of Pakistan, and the number of speakers is 30 million. Millions of Saraiki people migrated to India in 1947, in the partition of India.
Thanks to Parvez for getting this translation project started! Everyone who knows Saraiki is welcome to join our localisation mailing list and drop us a line – we’d love to hear from you 😊
Video: New Features in LibreOffice 7.5
A quick look at some of the new features in LibreOffice 7.5, which we announced yesterday!
(Click here to see this video on PeerTube.)
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Thanks to Nugroho Dwi Hartawan, Rania Amina and Ahmad Haris for the video. Original audio track: KOBT025 – Backing Track by Korochin Music JP.
LibreOffice project and community recap: January 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 year back looking back at the previous one – 2022! Here’s a quick recap of what we did in the LibreOffice community. Well, just a few of the many things 😉 Thanks to everyone who contributed last year! (PeerTube version of this video here.)
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- In January, we had two update releases for LibreOffice: 7.4.4 and 7.4.5. All users are recommended to download the latest version to get the latest fixes and compatibility improvements.
- Meanwhile, our Czech community announced their translation of the Calc Guide 7.4. Fantastic work! 👍
- Some sad news: we heard that Carlos Parra Zaldivar, a long-time collaborator in the community, member of The Document Foundation and advocate for Free Software, passed away on November 20th. Rest in peace, Carlos.
- More docs updates! The Documentation team was happy to announce the availability of the LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4, an update of the 7.3 guide.
- Then we talked to Afshin Falatooni from the Persian-speaking LibreOffice community, about his work on the blog and in the QA project.
- Later in the month, we at The Document Foundation stated our position on the EU’s proposed Cyber Resilience Act. If the Cyber Resilience Act becomes EU law without clarification, the impact on several European-based open source projects, such as products based on LibreOffice technology, could have devastating (unintended) consequences.
- TDF has many websites and services: this blog, the LibreOffice website, our wiki, the extensions website, Weblate and many more. To improve them and keep them up-to-date, TDF now has a new Web Technology Engineer, Juan José González! We had a chat with him, to learn more…
- Aaaaand finally, the LibreOffice project and community will be at FOSDEM 2023 (Brussels, February 4 and 5). If you’ll be there, come to our booth, grab some stickers, and check out the talks in our devroom!
