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LibreOffice monthly recap: March 2019

Check out our regular summary of events and updates in the last month!

  • The next LibreOffice Conference will take place in September, in Almeria, southern Spain. Join us there and meet developers, supporters, and other fans of LibreOffice and free software! You can also give a talk or presentation – we put the call for papers online at the start of the month.

  • Meanwhile, The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, has a job offer: we’re looking for an Administrative Assistant. If you speak German and English, check out the details – but make sure to submit your application before April 5th!

  • In March we also organised two C++ workshops: the first one covered classes and arrays, while the second focused on pointers and linked lists. We’ll be running more workshops in the future, so keep following our blog to learn more!

  • On March 15, MITRE announced that The Document Foundation has been approved as CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a reference list of public cybersecurity vulnerabilities, with entries that describe those vulnerabilities and provide references for them.

  • While we’re excited about the upcoming LibreOffice Conference in Spain, we’re also looking further ahead to 2020: we put out a call for locations for that year’s conference. If you’re a passionate LibreOffice supporter and want to help organise a conference in your region, drop us a line and let us know!
  • Finally, the LibreOffice project is now active on Mastodon, an open source, self-hosted and federated social media platform. We’ll be posting regular updates there about LibreOffice and the community, and also some tips for using the software.

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

LibreOffice is now on Mastodon social media

You may have seen that we have Twitter accounts for LibreOffice and The Document Foundation – and now, we’re on Mastodon too!

But what is Mastodon, you may ask? Well, it’s an open source social media platform that’s self-hosted and federated. Instead of everything being controlled by a single company, Mastodon servers are spread across the world, and anyone can create one to boost the network. We in the LibreOffice community are using the Fosstodon instance, which – as the name suggests – is oriented around free and open source software (FOSS).

Click here to follow us!

(A big thanks to the Fosstodon community for their support.)

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.2.2

Berlin, March 21, 2019 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.2.2, the third release of the LibreOffice 6.2 family targeted at tech savvy individuals: early adopters, technology enthusiasts and power users.

LibreOffice individual users are supported by a global community of volunteers: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos. Donations help us to make all these resources available.

LibreOffice users are invited to join the community at https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/, to improve LibreOffice by contributing back in one of the following areas: development, documentation, infrastructure, localization, quality assurance, design or marketing.

LibreOffice 6.2.2 provides over 50 bug and regression fixes over the previous version, contributed by a thriving community of developers, which are described in the change log page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/6.2.2/RC1 (changed in RC1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/6.2.2/RC2 (changed in RC2).

Enterprise Deployments

LibreOffice 6.2.2 represents the bleeding edge in term of features for open source office suites, and as such is not optimized for enterprise class deployments, where features are less important than robustness. Users wanting a more mature version can download LibreOffice 6.1.5, which includes some months of back-ported fixes.

Value-added services for enterprise class deployments – related to software support, migrations and training – should be sourced from certified professionals (https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/). In addition, some of TDF Advisory Board members provide LibreOffice LTS (Long Term Supported) versions targeted to enterprise deployments (https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/advisory-board/).

Sourcing enterprise class software and/or services from the ecosystem of certified professionals are the best support options for organizations deploying LibreOffice on a large number of desktops. In fact, these activities are contributed back to the project under the form of improvements to the software and the community, and trigger a virtuous circle which is beneficial to all parties, including users.

Availability of LibreOffice 6.2.2

LibreOffice 6.2.2 is immediately available from the following link: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Apple macOS 10.9. Builds of the latest LibreOffice Online source code are available as Docker images: https://hub.docker.com/r/libreoffice/online/.

LibreOffice Online is fundamentally a server service, and should be installed and configured by adding cloud storage and an SSL certificate. It might be considered an enabling technology for the cloud services offered by ISPs or the private cloud of enterprises and large organizations.

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

LibreOffice 6.2.2 is built with document conversion libraries from the Document Liberation Project: https://www.documentliberation.org.

MITRE names The Document Foundation as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)

Berlin, March 15, 2019 – MITRE announced that The Document Foundation, the home of LibreOffice, has been approved as CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). The Document Foundation is at the center of one of the largest free open source software ecosystems, where enterprise sponsored developers and contributors work side by side with volunteers coming from every continent. The nomination is the result of significant investments in security provided by the LibreOffice Red Hat team under Caolán McNamara leadership.

What is CVE?

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a reference list of public cybersecurity vulnerabilities, with entries that describe those vulnerabilities and provide references for them. These references are often used as the vulnerability names, especially in security updates. To date, LibreOffice has a track record of rapid response to all reported threats.

What is a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)?

A CNA is an organization that can assign and announce CVE entries within a particular scope. Some CNAs are organizations providing CVEs for their products such as The Document Foundation.

How will The Document Foundation assign CVEs?

The Document Foundation Security Team provides a forum for all of the vendors and individuals who contribute to LibreOffice development to co-ordinate the work of protecting our users from threats related to the application.

As a CNA, The Document Foundation Security Team now has the ability to assign CVE IDs to vulnerabilities affecting our products, the ability to control the disclosure of vulnerability information without pre-publishing, and notification of vulnerabilities in our products by researchers who request a CVE ID from us.

Next C++ workshop: Classes and Arrays, 14 March at 19:00 UTC

Yes, it’s that time again! You can improve your C++ skills with the help of LibreOffice developers: we’re running regular workshops which focus on a specific topic, and are accompanied by a real-time IRC meeting. For the next one, the topics are Classes and Arrays. Start by watching this presentation:

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And check out these sections from C++ Annotations: Classes and Arrays.

Then join us for a discussion via our #libreoffice-dev IRC channel on Freenode. You can ask experienced LibreOffice developers questions, and learn more about the language. See you then!

Community Member Monday: Dieudonne Dukuzumuremy and Tomas Kapiye

LibreOffice is an international project, available in many languages thanks to our enthusiastic worldwide community! Today we speak to two contributors from Africa who are currently living in Japan, starting with Dieudonne Dukuzumuremy:

Firstly, tell us a bit about yourself (where you live, your experience, and what you love – apart from LibreOffice of course!)

I live in Japan (Kobe City). In fact, I have graduated in Japan as a Master’s holder in Information Systems. Currently, I’m doing a post-graduation internship. When I’m not working on LibreOffice, I work as software developer.

Besides that, I will stay in Japan until December – then after I will go back to my home country Rwanda, where I work as a lecture in at the Integrated Polytechnics University. There I provide the fundamentals of programming such as PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL, SQL Server, VB.net, WordPress etc..

I’m interested in learning new global technologies and bringing more ICT innovations to developing countries, sharing knowledge as well as being result-oriented.

My hobbies are playing football and futsal, along with meeting and making friends.

What do you do in the LibreOffice project?

In LibreOffice I do bug triaging and translations. Currently I’m working on bug reports, reproducing bugs, and translating LibreOffice into the Kinyarwanda language – which is one of the languages of Rwanda.

How did you get involved? Was it a good experience?

I joined a post-graduation internship in a company which has a department of open source software department, and they are focusing on LibreOffice. So LibreOffice is my main task during my internship.

A good experience is that I understand how LibreOffice works as open source, in terms of the different categories of contributors. It was my first time participating, and providing a contribution. It is also interesting to translate LibreOffice into my own language.

What does LibreOffice need most right now?

LibreOffice needs more active collaborative teamwork, to keep improving its features, in order to make it more reliable for users. LibreOffice also needs to improve more in marketing, so that people around the world understand it. Most developing countries spend a lot of money to buy licensed office softwares – but LibreOffice makes it cheaper and gives more to local people who support it.

Tomas Kapiye

Where do you live, and what do you get up to in your spare time?

I also live in Kobe, Japan. In my spare time I like surfing the net, in search for new news on technology, international relations, business and finance, and social well-being. Sometimes I study computer networking (I am originally a Computer Engineer (CCNP)), or I study Python since I have a personal interest in it.

When I have more time, I meet friends for a chess game, go swimming or exercise in the park. Oh and I like catching fish, making friends from all over the world, and spending some time in the kitchen 🙂

What do you do in the LibreOffice project?

I am doing translations mostly, but periodically also do bug triaging.

How did you get involved?

I got involved by joining an internship programme at a company called iCraft in Kobe, Japan. It was a good experience – I wouldn’t have imagined all of the efforts that are happening behind-the-scenes in applications such as LibreOffice, especially to deliver good service to end users.

Lastly, what does LibreOffice need most right now?

User-friendly materials about the processes to follow when someone wants to get involved. LibreOffice also needs to expand its efforts into Africa, especially considering that many things are moving there and all forms of development are taking place there.

A big thanks to Dieudonne and Tomas for their time and contributions! If you’re reading this and are based on the African continent, you can help us to localise the software and spread the word about it!

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