LibreOffice 5.4 is due to be announced at the end of July 2017, with many new features (those already implemented are summarized on the release notes page – https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.4 – with much more to come).
In order to find, report and triage bugs, the QA team is organizing the first Bug Hunting Session on Friday, April 28, 2017.…
Christian “Cloph” Lohmaier has been LibreOffice’s release manager for quite a long time. We asked him some questions, to not only get better knowledge about his daily activities, but find out his opinions about The Document Foundation and LibreOffice.
Q1. What is the typical day of a release manager?
Release manager is not a single-day job.…
Xisco Fauli works for The Document Foundation as a quality assurance engineer, helping the QA community handle bug reports, triaging and bibisecting. We talked to him about projects he’s working on, and how everyone can get involved:
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Berlin, April 6, 2017 – The Document Foundation (TDF) releases LibreOffice 5.3.2, the 2nd minor release of the LibreOffice 5.3 family, focused on bleeding edge features, and as such targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters, and power users. LibreOffice 5.3.2 integrates over 50 patches, with a large number of fixes related to RTF and DOCX documents.…
The Document Foundation has enabled us to visit the Univention Summit in Bremen, so here is our report
Univention’s primary product is the Univention Corporate Server (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univention_Corporate_Server#App_Center). UCS combines various free software applications into a comprehensive server platform based on Debian GNU/Linux.
The goal of the summit was networking in the field of open source software and, of course, to popularize UCS.…
Open standards, especially open document formats, are essential tools for bridging digital divides and giving content creators control over their work. We would like to see governments, organisations and companies around the world switch to fully open and standardised file formats, freeing them from vendor lock-in and improving compatibility across multiple platforms and operating systems.
So, today we celebrate Document Freedom Day, an international day for spreading awareness about open standards and open document formats.…