Author: Mike Saunders

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 August by posting the full version of TDF’s Annual Report 2022. The Document Foundation is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, and our report highlights community and project activities in the previous year. Check it out!

• Next up was a double gift from the LibreOffice documentation team: Impress Guide 7.5 and Draw Guide 7.5. Big thanks to everyone who helped to update the guides 👍

• Our native-language communities use Weblate to translate LibreOffice’s user interface. Thanks to donations, The Document Foundation has been able to fund some Weblate improvements, to help all users.

• The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock 30 on August 16, 1993. The Debian Community celebrates its birthday, Debian Day, on this day each year. And we celebrated 30 years with them, as they are one of the organizations supporting the LibreOffice project since day one.

• The biggest news in August was the release of LibreOffice 7.6, with a bunch of new features and updates. Many thanks to all community members, developers and ecosystem companies that contributed to this release! 😊

• And we wrapped up the month by announcing the Fourth Edition of the LibreOffice Latin America Conference. It will be held at the Faculty of Engineering of the UNAM, Mexico City, on November 9th (Thursday) and 10th (Friday). Join us there!

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Weblate is a free and open source software (FOSS) translation tool, with version control features. It’s used by many projects around the world, including LibreOffice, Fedora and openSUSE, to assist their communities with translating user interfaces, documentation, and other aspects of software.

Because we in the LibreOffice project use Weblate, we wanted to contribute back and help to fund fixes and improvements. This is all possible thanks to generous donations from you!

The full list of changes is at the bottom of this blogpost, but as a summary: TDF funded improvements to the administration interface, making it easier to work with permissions, and filter by language when generating reports. A night theme was added (shown below), along with other cosmetic improvements, and it’s now possible for translators to explain why they reject a suggestion.

All of these are available in Weblate 4.18 (the latest release) and future versions. And more are coming in Weblate 5.0, such as nested projects or project grouping and per-language translation workflow settings.

Thanks again to our donors for making this possible, and Sophie Gautier and Jan ‘Kendy’ Holešovský for ther help! And we can say to other FOSS projects looking for translating tools, we recommend Weblate 👍

Full list of improvements and fixes

• #7205 – unchanged translation flag notwithstanding glossary term marked as untranslatable, fixed in 4.17
• #5854 – Autofix Bangla/Bengali sentence ender to ।, fixed in 4.17
• #5842 – Shortcut for suggest, fixed in 4.15
• #4368 – Improved presentation of differences in machine translations, fixed in 4.18
• #4160 – Allow to filter on language in reports, fixed in 4.17
• #3242 – Ability to download all translation memory from a given project in a per-language basis, fixed in 4.17
• #2241 – Search who translates the same language, fixed in 4.18
• #2127 – Create Group Administration Permissions, fixed in 4.15
• #1994 – Check if two different strings share same translation, fixed in 4.18
• #1661 – Suggestion rejection reason: possibility of explaining why you reject a suggestion, fixed in 4.18
• #2969 – Add night theme, fixed in 4.18
• #5519 – Glossary import and export with explanations, fixed in 4.18

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 July by welcoming Michael Weghorn to The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice. Michael is a developer and will initially focus on accessibility improvements.

• Talking of the TDF team: in June, team members met in Munich to discuss ideas and proposals for the community and software. They worked on lots of topics – and now we’ve uploaded the report of the meeting. Check it out and let us know what you think!

• More news from the foundation: the Membership Committee (MC), which is responsible for managing membership applications and renewals, announced a new membership management system called Proteus.

• Meanwhile, our documentation and localisation communities did some great work: they updated the Getting Started Guide to LibreOffice 7.5, and finished a Czech translation of the LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4. Awesome!

• We had one release in July, LibreOffice 7.5.5. This is the fifth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 7.5 branch, and all users are recommended to get the update.

• And finally: our Extensions and Templates website received a bunch of improvements, thanks to TDF’s new Web Developer, Juan José González (aka “JJ”).

Keep in touch – follow us on Mastodon, Twitter and Facebook. Like what we do? Support our community with a donation – or join us and help to make LibreOffice even better!