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LibreOffice Technology being piloted at the European Data Protection Supervisor

LibreOffice Technology diagram

Data protection and privacy is very important to us – and our users – in the LibreOffice project, so we’re happy to see that the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is piloting the use of LibreOffice Technology.

The EDPS is the European Union’s (EU) independent data protection authority, which monitors and ensures the protection of personal data and privacy when EU institutions and bodies process the information of individuals. From their announcement:

In February 2023, the EDPS has started piloting the use of the Open Source Software Nextcloud and Collabora Online (based on LibreOffice technology). Together, they offer the possibility to share files, send messages, make video calls, and allows collaborative drafting, in a secured cloud environment.

This pilot project is part of a wider initiative, looking at alternatives to large-scale service providers to ensure better compliance with EU regulation 2018/1725 (covering the processing of personal data). We look forward to seeing the progress and results.

Click here for the full announcement

LibreOffice 7.5.1 Community available for download

Berlin, March 2, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.5.1 Community, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from our download page for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux [1].

Most Significant New Features of LibreOffice 7.5

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 is available in the Release Notes.

Based on the distinctive features of the LibreOffice Technology platform for personal productivity on desktop, mobile and cloud, LibreOffice 7.5 provides a large number of improvements and new features targeted at users sharing documents with MS Office or migrating from MS Office. These users should check new releases of LibreOffice on a regular basis, as the progress is so fast, that each new version improves dramatically over the previous one.

Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), for mobile platforms (Android and iOS), and for the cloud.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners – for desktop, mobile and cloud – with a large number of dedicated value-added features and other benefits such as SLA (Service Level Agreements).

Availability of LibreOffice 7.5.1 Community

LibreOffice 7.5.1 Community is available from our download page. Minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Apple macOS 10.14. LibreOffice Technology-based products for Android and iOS are listed here.

The Document Foundation does not provide technical support for users, although they can get it from volunteers on user mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation with a donation.

[1] Change Log Pages: RC1 and RC2.

LibreOffice Conference 2023 in Bucharest, Romania

LibreOffice Conference 2023 will be organized by a group of volunteers from the 1&1 software company, which is integrating LibreOffice into the Online Office product for GMX and WEB.DE portals, at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers of the University Politehnica of Bucharest from Wednesday, September 20 (community meetings), to Saturday, September 23. The conference will open on Thursday, September 21, with the opening session followed by technical tracks, and will end on Saturday, September 23, with the closing session. All conference sessions will be at the Precis Building (picture on the left), while areas for internal meetings (scheduled on September 18 and 19), informal meetings during the conference, and networking activities will also be in neighbouring buildings inside the university campus.

Established in 1967, the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers has as mission the development of a fertile environment for education, research and innovation, key factors in the expansion of the knowledge-based economy. Specifically, the mission of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers is to empower high-quality scientific research, to share knowledge through education in the domains of Computer Science and Information Technologies, and Systems Engineering, as well as to offer a stimulating, high-level professional and social environment to the students and academic staff within the faculty.

Members of the organizing team are Maria Veronica Ruxanda (Vera), Irina Bulciu, Roberto Grosu, Cătălin Popescu, Adrian Stănescu and Gabriel Masei. Gabriel is a TDF Member and is also a Deputy Member of TDF Board of Directors. For the conference, they have proposed the logo on the left, based on Romanian traditional motifs and colors (red, yellow, blue).

The organizing team, backed by Sophie Gautier and Italo Vignoli for organization and logistics, and by the entire TDF Team for the different conference activities, will announce the sponsorship packages and the call for papers during the month of March.

The Document Foundation is now on Mastodon!

You may know that the LibreOffice project has been on Mastodon for a few years – it’s a free, open-source and federated social media service (with similar features to Twitter).

Well, now we’ve created an account for The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity coordinating the LibreOffice community! And we already have a bunch of followers – so thanks to everyone who supports us there 😊

Click here to follow @tdforg, and get regular updates about our work

LibreOffice is in the Google Summer of Code 2023!

GSoC logo

Everyone loves having shiny new features in LibreOffice. But how do we get them? Many are developed by volunteers and people in the ecosystem.

But another great source of new features is the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC Contributors work with open source organisations on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors.

And we’re happy to announce that for 2023’s GSoC, LibreOffice is once again taking part!

Find out more here

Writer and Calc Guides updated to new LibreOffice 7.5 release

The Documentation Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Writer Guide and Calc Guide release 7.5, narrowing the time gap between the software release date and the Guides’ release date.

Writer Guide 7.5
Writer Guide 7.5
Calc Guide 7.5
Calc Guide 7.5

The Writer Guide 7.5 update was coordinated by Jean Weber with the support of Kees Kriek, Tsvetelina Georgieva, Antonio Fernández and Olivier Hallot. The Guide contains topics on Additional hyphenation settings (Chapter 2), Language Tool, a remote grammar checker (Chapters 2 and 20), Additional change tracking features (Chapter 3) Outline folding (Chapter 3), Page line-spacing for printed documents (Chapter 6), Gutter margins in page styles (Chapters 8 and 9), Revised and additional information about using styles (Chapter 8), Additional information about using master documents (Chapter 16), New features for bookmarks (Chapter 17) and Content controls (Chapter 18)

The Calc Guide 7.5 update was coordinated by Olivier Hallot, based on the Calc Guide 7.4. The guide contains topics on document properties (Chapter 1), AutoFilter with color filtering and more (Chapter 2), Chart data table (Chapter 3) and notes on AutoFormat of ranges and themes (Chapter 4 and 5).

The Guides are available for immediate download in PDF format as well as in source format (OpenDocument Format). Soon they will be available as printed books by LuLu inc. and in HTML format for online reading

Download the Writer and Calc guides 7.5 from the documentation websites at: documentation.libreoffice.org and the bookshelf at books.libreoffice.org.

Olivier Hallot
Olivier Hallot
Jean Weber
Jean Weber

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