The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock 30 years ago, on August 16, 1993. The Debian Community celebrates its birthday, Debian Day, on this day each year. And we celebrate with them, as they are one of the organizations supporting the LibreOffice project since day one.
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Weblate (translation tool) improvements funded by TDF
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
LibreOffice project and community recap: July 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 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!
Czech translation of LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4 – and more news
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
The Czech team has finished its translation of the LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4. As usual it was team work, namely: translations by Petr Kuběj, Zdeněk Crhonek and Radomír Strnad; localized pictures by Roman Toman; and technical support from Miloš Šrámek. Thanks to all the team for their work! The Czech translation of the Draw guide 7.4 is available for download from this page.
Now the team continues with translation of the Impress Guide 7.5. We always looking for new translators and correctors. Join us!
Migration protocol translated into Czech
Thanks to Jana Švejdová for translating the LibreOffice Migration Protocol into Czech, and HeroClan for finding a volunteer. The protocol represents a reference for migrations, based on best practices from some of the most successful projects. The file is available on the Czech website.
Try our updated Extensions and Templates site!
LibreOffice includes a wide range of features, covering most use-cases. But it also supports extensions for more functionality, and our worldwide community has submitted hundreds of great extensions (and templates).
Recently, our new Web Developer Juan José González (aka “JJ”) improved the design of the site, to make it more usable and visually appealing, including:
- Counters for number of downloads
- A more prominent search bar
- Tag filters in a menu on the left
- Larger sort order buttons
- Easier to read dates of last update (e.g. “2 months ago”)
Explore the new site here! If you notice anything that could still be improved, please report it on our tracker.
And a huge thanks to all extension and template maintainers – you’ve done the biggest work on the website.
Create and submit an extension
Interested in making an extension and sharing it with the world? It’s a great way to learn about LibreOffice development. Here are some guides to get started:
LibreOffice 7.5.5 Community available for download
Berlin, July 20, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.5.5 Community, the fifth 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].
Given the upcoming announcement of LibreOffice 7.6, all users are invited to update to this version, which has been tested and sought after enough to be ready for production environments.
Several other products based on the same LibreOffice Technology of LibreOffice 7.5.5 are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Chrome OS and Linux), for mobile platforms (Android and iOS), and for the cloud. In some cases the name is not LibreOffice, although the underlying technology is the same.
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 7.5.5 Community
LibreOffice 7.5.5 Community is available from this 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 be helped by volunteers on user mailing lists and on the Ask LibreOffice website.
LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation with a donation on this page.