LibreOffice 6.4 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in early February 2020 – see the release notes describing the new features here. Of course, we’re still early in the development cycle, so many more features are still to come!
In order to find, report and triage bugs, the LibreOffice QA team is organizing the first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.4 on Monday October 21, 2019. Tests will be performed on the first Alpha version, which will be available on the pre-releases server a few days before the event. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), macOS and Windows, and can be installed and run in parallel along with the production version.
Mentors will be available from 07:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC for questions or help in the IRC channel #libreoffice-qa and the Telegram QA Channel. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also on other days, as the builds of this particular Alpha release (LibreOffice 6.4.0 Alpha 1) will be available until mid November. Check the Release Plan.
All details of the first Bug Hunting Session are available on the wiki. We look forward to seeing you soon – thanks so much for your help! Together we’ll make LibreOffice 6.4 a super solid release.
Who makes the big technical decisions in the LibreOffice project? In this video from our recent LibreOffice Conference in Spain, the Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) introduces itself and provides an update on the latest updates:
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Here’s the final set of presentations from the “Sala de Grados (Aulario IV)” room at the LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain. We have many more videos from other rooms to come, of course! (Note: for better audio, use headphones.)
First up is “Neural Machine Translation for LibreOffice” with Thomas Viehmann:
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Next, “Weblate public test feedback round” with Christian Lohmaier:
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“Experiment for large-scale operation of LibreOffice Online, 2019 Edition” with Masaki Murakami:
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“LibreOffice Online new features” with Cor Nouws:
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“Online integration success stories” with Jan Holesovsky:
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And “10/20 Anniversary Planning” with Italo Vignoli:
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Yes, we’ve uploaded some more presentations from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain. Many of these cover interoperability between LibreOffice and other office software. To start, here’s “Sharing is caring” with Marina Latini:
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“TDF community and membership: how to get in” with Gabriele Ponzo:
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“LibreOffice community and the SDG” with Leo Moons:
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“Interoperability as core feature” with Gábor Kelemen:
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“Interoperable office collaboration” with Svante Schubert:
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“Interoperability improvements in the last year” with Mike Kaganski:
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“Watermarking: a secure way to share documents” with Mert Tümer:
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And “Interoperability of Charts between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office” with Balázs Varga:
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LibreOffice has extensive documentation, thanks to our worldwide community of volunteers. Recently, Lera Goncharuk, Alex Denkin and Roman Kuznetsov worked on a Russian translation of the getting started guide – click the image below to read it. If you want to help with a translation in your own language, see this page to get started – and thanks for your help!
