LibreOffice Community Smiles #20

Hackers and community members smiling during the HackFest at the Escuela de Ingenieria Informatica in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (Spain).

LibreOffice 5.4.4 available for download

Berlin, December 20, 2017 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 5.4.4, the fourth minor release of LibreOffice 5.4 family, one month before the major announcement of LibreOffice 6.0. Although it still represents the bleeding edge in term of features, conservative users and enterprises can start the update process from their current LibreOffice 5.3 implementation.

TDF suggests to conservative users and enterprises to deploy LibreOffice with the backing of certified developers, migrators and trainers (an updated list is available at https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/

LibreOffice Community Smiles #19

Group photo of smiling hackers in Hamburg, during one of the LibreOffice HackFests organized in the city where the source code was born a long time ago.

Coming up on December 22: Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.0 RC1

2017 is coming to a close, but our community is still busy preparing for the release of LibreOffice 6.0, which is due in late January 2018. Many new features have been added to this version, and to make it as reliable as possible, we want your help!

On December 22 we will have an international Bug Hunting Session (BHS), testing the RC1 (first release candidate) of LibreOffice 6.0.…

LibreOffice Community Smiles #18

Another group of smiling hackers and community members at the HackFest in Dresden, focused on Impress

Document Liberation Project: 2017 in review


While most of the posts on this blog are about LibreOffice, another project overseen by The Document Foundation is DLP – the Document Liberation Project. Whereas LibreOffice is an end-user application, DLP is a collection of free and open source software libraries that help to convert document formats. Developers can use these libraries in their programs, in order to import and export a large variety of files – including proprietary formats.…