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!…
25 Dec 2018
Season’s greetings from The Document Foundation!
(Thanks to Drew Jensen from our marketing community for the picture.)
…24 Dec 2018
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.…
18 Dec 2018
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!…
18 Dec 2018
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…
17 Dec 2018
Coming up on December 21: Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.2 RC 1
After the first and second Bug Hunting Sessions of LibreOffice 6.2, which were held on October 22th 2018 and November 19th 2018 respectively, we’re glad to announce the third and final Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.2 on December 21st. You can see the release notes describing the new features here.
In order to find, report and triage bugs, the tests during the Third Bug Hunting Session will be performed on the first Release Candidate (RC1) version of LibreOffice 6.2, which will be available on the pre-releases server on the day of the event.…