LibreOffice monthly recap: December 2018

Here’s our regular recap of events and updates in the last month!

  • At the start of December, we wrapped up the Month of LibreOffice from November – and 345 sticker packs had been awarded, more than any other Month of LibreOffice in history! This reflects the thriving community around the software – learn more about the results here.

LibreOffice community events: Cyprus and Japan

Happy new year! But before we really get into 2019, here are a couple of short event reports from our LibreOffice communities around the world, for events in December 2018. A big thanks to the organisers for their work, and the participants – you’re all doing a great job to boost the community, improve LibreOffice, and share information!…

Season’s greetings from The Document Foundation!

(Thanks to Drew Jensen from our marketing community for the picture.)

Try the LibreOffice 2018 Christmas Quiz!

How much do you know about LibreOffice – the software, the community and its history? We’ve made a little quiz for you to try out, so check out the questions below, and you’ll find the answers at the bottom. Good luck 🙂

1 – LibreOffice is a successor to OpenOffice.org, which was based on the proprietary suite StarOffice.

Coming up on December 20: Next C++ workshop

Improve your C++ skills! Last week, we had a workshop covering an introduction to the language, and looking at functions and strings. Participants watched a couple of presentation videos, and then had the opportunity to put questions to experienced LibreOffice developers.

Well, the second workshop is coming up! On December 20 at 19:00 UTC, join us to discuss these topics: I/O streams and building LibreOffice!…

LibreOffice 6.1.4 announced

Berlin, December 18, 2018 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.1.4, the 4th minor release of the LibreOffice 6.1 family, targeted at tech savvy individuals: early adopters, technology enthusiasts and power users.

LibreOffice 6.1.4 provides over 120 bug and regression fixes over the previous version, contributed by a thriving community of developers, which are described in the change log pages: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/6.1.4/RC1