LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice, which had its last major release (4.1) back in 2014, as you can see in this timeline – click to enlarge. And, of course, it’s still free and open source: We release a new major version every six months – so let’s check
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LibreOffice presentations at FOSDEM 2020 – learn about the technology behind the software
FOSDEM is the biggest European get-together of free and open source software (aka FOSS). And, of course, the LibreOffice community and certified developers were there! Indeed, many developers and community members gave talks about their recent work – check out these links for the videos and slides… Main track LibreOffice
Improvements in LibreOffice’s PowerPoint presentation support
LibreOffice’s native file format is OpenDocument, a fully open and standardised format that’s great for sharing documents and long-term data storage. Of course, LibreOffice does its best to open files made by other office software as well, even if they’re stored in pseudo-“standards” with cryptic and obfuscated contents. Compatibility with
LibreOffice Macro Team: progress report
Macros help users to automate common tasks in LibreOffice, and in September, we announced a new team in our community to work on macro support. So, what has happened in the meantime? This article is a collection of the work done by the LibreOffice Macro Team in the past few
LibreOffice and Google Summer of Code 2019: The results
This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) a global programme focused on bringing more student developers into free and open source software development. We ran six projects – and all were finished successfully. Both students and mentors enjoyed the time, and
LibreOffice and macOS Catalina
Apple has released macOS 10.15 Catalina on October 7, 2019. Mac apps, installer packages and kernel extensions that are signed with a Developer ID must be notarized by Apple to run on macOS Catalina. Although we have duly followed the instructions, when users launch LibreOffice 6.3.x – which has been