One of the goals of The Document Foundation and the community it represents is to improve LibreOffice to make it even more competitive with other office suites. One of the tools to achieve this goal are tenders for the development of specific features, such as the implementation of OpenDocument Format version 1.3, the standard format used by LibreOffice and other applications.…
Category: Announcements
Announcement of LibreOffice 7.4.7 Community
Berlin, May 11, 2023 – The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 7.4.7 Community, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 7.4 line, which is approaching the end of life [1]. The new release is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/ for Windows (Intel and Arm processors), macOS (Apple and Intel processors), and Linux.
LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats for security and robustness – to superior support for MS Office files, to filters for a large number of legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users.…
The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 7.5.3 Community
Berlin, May 4, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.5.3 Community, the third minor release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux [1].
A description of new features of LibreOffice 7.5 is available in the Release Notes [2].…
LibreOffice 7.5.2 Community available for download
Berlin, March 30, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.5.2 Community, the second minor release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from from our download page for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux.
Most Significant New Features of the LibreOffice 7.5 Family
GENERAL
- Major improvements to dark mode support
- New application and MIME-type icons, more colorful and vibrant
- The Start Centre can filter documents by type
- An improved version of the Single Toolbar UI has been implemented
- PDF Export improved with several fixes, and new options and features
- Support for font embedding on macOS
- Improvements to the Font Features dialog with several new options
- Addition of a zoom slider at the bottom right of the macro editor
WRITER
- Bookmarks have been significantly improved, and are also much more visible
- Objects can be marked as decorative, for better accessibility
- New types added to content controls, which also improve the quality of PDF forms
- A new automatic accessibility checker option has been added to the Tools menu
- Initial machine translation is available, based on DeepL translate APIs
- Several spell checking improvements
CALC
- Data tables are now supported in charts
- The Function Wizard now lets you search by descriptions
- “Spell out” number formats have been added
- Conditional formatting conditions are now case insensitive
- Correct behavior when entering numbers with a single prefix quote (‘)
IMPRESS & DRAW
- New set of default table styles, and creation of table styles
- Table styles can be customized, saved as master elements and exported
- Objects can be drag-and-dropped in the navigator
- It is now possible to crop inserted videos in the slide and still play them
- The presenter console can also run as a normal window instead of fullscreen
A description of all new features in the LibreOffice 7.5 family is available in the Release Notes.…
Release of LibreOffice 7.4.6 Community
Berlin, March 9, 2023 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 7.4.6 Community, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.4 family. The new release is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/ for Windows (Intel and Arm processors), macOS (Apple and Intel processors), and Linux.
LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats for security and robustness – to superior support for MS Office files, to filters for a large number of legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users.…
Be a host for the LibreOffice Conference 2024!
Love LibreOffice and free software? Want to grow the FOSS community in your region? Help to organise the LibreOffice Conference 2024! Our “Call for Location” is now open – read on to learn more…
Background
Once a year, the LibreOffice Community gathers for a global community event: the LibreOffice Conference, or LibOCon. After a series of successful events – Paris, Berlin, Milan, Bern, Aarhus, Brno, Rome, Tirana, Almeria, two events online and Milan again, the 2023 venue will be in Bucharest, Romania.…