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LibreOffice Conference 2021

LibreOffice Conference will open on September 23 at noon CEST and will close on September 25 at 5:30PM CEST. The schedule has been finalized, and is available at the following link: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/schedule/. Of course, we may have last minute changes until September 12, when the schedule will be frozen. Sometime after that date, the schedule will also be available on Android mobiles (we will announce the availability of the app on Google Play and F-Droid in due time).

People who will attend the LibreOffice Conference via Jitsi are kindly requested to register by filling in the form on the following webpage: https://conference.libreoffice.org/2021/registration-form/. The registration will allow us to manage conference sessions in the best way, to provide a smoother experience than in 2020 (when we had a couple of unwelcome “guests” trying to spoil the event). LibreOffice advocates and conference attendees can support the event by purchasing LibreOffice Conference swag from Freewear, from the following page: https://www.freewear.org/LibreOfficeConference/.

In addition to the blog, we will publish all announcements on the two Telegram groups: LibreOffice Virtual Conference Announcements (https://t.me/LibOcon) and LibreOffice Virtual Conference (https://t.me/liboconvirtual), and on the LibreOffice Conference website: https://conference.libreoffice.org/.

 

LibreOffice 7.2 Media Coverage

The announcement of LibreOffice 7.2 has got a large media coverage in many geographies. This is a list of some of the most significant articles in English.

 

LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2021

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’re looking forward to the LibreOffice Conference 2021, coming up in September – and we now have a logo, thanks to Alan Ward!

  • Our series of guides to fixing interoperability bugs in LibreOffice continued this month with part 2 and part 3.

  • In the LibreOffice project, we make use of various social media platforms to spread the word, and bring new contributors to us. We posted about the importance of LinkedIn pages for our projects, and how we’re growing them.

  • French social-impact company Hypra, focused on accessibility in free and open source software, joined TDF’s Advisory Board this month. We look forward to sharing insights and experiences, strengthening all our work together.

  • Finally, some documentation updates! The Brazilian Portuguese Writer 7.1 guide was released on August 23, while the English Writer Guide 7.2 was also made available around the same time. Many thanks to all contributors in the docs project for their updates and translations!

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Parabolas as custom shapes in LibreOffice

Regina Henschel writes…

Teachers of mathematics often need a parabola in their instructions or exercises. Creating a parabola by using a chart is cumbersome. Therefore I have generated some parabolas as custom shape for anyone to use. You can get them in this LibreOffice Writer document.

A simple parabola

A parabola with focus

And a parabola with tangent, where you can drag the point of contact

The parabola-shapes are contained in a document. You can copy and paste a shape from there to your document or you can drag the shapes into your Gallery. The document contains in addition some explanations how the shapes were generated. You can download the document from the wiki.

I hope you find the shapes useful!

The Writer Guide 7.2 just arrived

The new Guide comes one week after the release of the latest LibreOffice Community software

Jean H. Weber and Kees Kriek from the LibreOffice Documentation Team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Writer Guide 7.2, one week after the release of LibreOffice Community 7.2

LibreOffice 7.2 Community includes many changes not visible in the user interface. These changes include improved interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats and performance improvements in handling large files, opening certain .docx and .xlsx files, managing font caching, and opening presentations and drawings that contain large images.

The Writer Guide 7.2 has been updated from Writer Guide 7.1. It covers changes that are visible in the user interface, including:

  • Added a note about icon sets and Gallery sets in this Preface.
  • Added details about the Insert > Formatting Mark submenu (Chapter 2).
  • Updated list terminology and changed screenshots in Chapters 4, 8, 9, 11, and anywhere else lists are mentioned.
  • Added new gutter margins and choices for page background fills (Chapters 5, 6, and 9).
  • Updated details about some options on tabs of the PDF Options dialog (Chapter 7).
  • Added new, advanced features of the Style Inspector (Chapter 9)
  • Updated details about Templates dialog (Chapter 10).
  • Added “no registered database” error message in Mail Merge Wizard (Chapter 14).
  • Added information on classifying document contents (Chapter 17).
  • Added Basic Fonts options and custom dictionaries (Chapter 20).
  • New Chapter 21 on user interface variants.
  • Minor rewording, updates to terminology, and replacement figures in many chapters.

LibreOffice Community 7.2 release notes are here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2.

A big thank you to Jean and Kees for their wonderful work.

Jean Weber
Kees Kriek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The LibreOffice Documentation Team is devoted to produce the best documentation for LibreOffice and is open to everyone interested in contributing to our collective effort.

LibreOffice 7.2: A week in stats

One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 7.2, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too. So, what has happened in the week since then? Let’s check out some stats…

473,308 downloads

These are just stats for our official downloads page, of course – many Linux users will have acquired the new release via their distribution’s package repositories.

44,814 Tweet impressions

The announcement Tweet was viewed almost 45,000 times, and had 418 likes and 187 retweets. We’re also on Mastodon, a FOSS-friendly federated microblogging service: our Mastodon toot had 48 likes and 45 shares. Meanwhile, the Facebook post reached 7,604 people, with 297 reactions and 32 shares.

15,156 video views

Our LibreOffice 7.2 New Features video has been popular, with 57 comments and 522 likes. (We also uploaded the video to PeerTube, an open source, decentralized and federated video platform.)

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1077 upvotes on Reddit

As always, we posted the announcement on the /r/linux subreddit, where it had 1077 upvotes and 161 comments. We also have our own dedicated /r/libreoffice subreddit – check it out!

A huge thanks to our worldwide community of volunteers, and certified developers, for all their work on this release!

Press Releases

Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.4

Berlin, 18 December 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.4, the fourth minor update to the free office suite developed by volunteers for…

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Why open standards are extremely beneficial to end users

Whenever I talk to other technology users — including CTOs, CSOs and ICT managers, who in theory should have a…