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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.0.2

Berlin, March 1st, 2018 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 6.0.2, the second minor release of the recently announced LibreOffice 6 family in just over a month, with around 50 bug and regression fixes. All LibreOffice users are invited to update either to LibreOffice 6.0.2 or to LibreOffice 5.4.5 to solve potential security-related issues.

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/…

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Friday Community #6

Bjoern Michaelsen has just announced the LibreOffice Hackfest Hamburg 2018 on April 7th and 8th, which will be the first of The New Generation. Details about the LibreOffice Hackfest Hamburg 2018 are kept on the TDF wiki page and will be continuously updated. If you are interested in joining the event please start adding your name there (especially if you are looking for TDF travel and accommodation sponsorship).…

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LibreOffice 6.0: Exploring the QA statistics

By Xisco Faulí, Quality Assurance (QA) engineer

LibreOffice 6.0 was released on January 31 and this is what happened during its development in LibreOffice’s Bugzilla, which started when the 5.4 branch was branched off from master on May 18 2017.

Note: This blog post has been created based on bugs in Bugzilla that have the whiteboard ‘target:6.0.0’, which means a commit for that bug is included in the release.…

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Making Macro Programming a Breeze: The BASIC & API Reference Cards

Update: Reference card for runtime library is now available.

One of the recurring issue when using LibreOffice as a replacement of other office applications is the migration of macros to the LibreOffice BASIC dialect and objects. While the LibreOffice BASIC programming language is almost standard, the objects inside a document have different names, methods and properties, and a rework on the macro is necessary in most cases to make it operational again, when imported from other suites.…

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Sunday Marketing #6

Last week, we have published the crash report chart just two days after the announcement of LibreOffice 6.0.1, to show the impact of the new version on the issues reported by Windows users.

Ten days after the announcement the impact is even more visible, and the chart on the left shows that the situation is now under control.…

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The Document Foundation 6th Anniversary

The Document Foundation was incorporated in Berlin on February 17, 2012. Today is the 6th anniversary, and all TDF Members around the world are celebrating another year of outstanding achievements. The last one has been the successful announcement of LibreOffice 6, which represents the combined effort of hundreds of people around the world, involved in development, localization, quality assurance, documentation and marketing.…

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Press Releases

Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.3

Berlin, 13 November 2025 - LibreOffice 25.8.3, the third minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity…

Open Document Format

Relaunching ODF Advocacy as ODF News

I decided to start the current campaign, with one blog post per week focusing on the different aspects of Open…