Behind the scenes at TDF: Release Engineering

cloph_headLibreOffice proper

The year 2015 started off with LibreOffice 4.4.0 and 4.3.6 rc1 – only the first of a whopping 42 (of course!) tags that were created and for which a build was uploaded to our mirror network – and ends with the stable releases 4.4.7 and 5.0.4 and with the first RC for LibreOffice 5.1.0 (for those interested: that’s a total of 216GB for the binary builds).

Behind the scenes at TDF: LibreOffice QA (Halloween Bug Hunting)

robinson-in-brusselsLibreOffice QA has been busy during the last few months!

We had our first BugHunting Session for the upcoming LibreOffice 5.1 release over the Halloween weekend at the end of October. Testing our alpha1 builds, members of the QA Team helped to lead users, developers, and other community members in identifying and documenting problems in our very first binaries available for this release series.

Behind the scenes at TDF: L10N and NLP in the first half of 2015

_SDS5526Now that the summer vacation time is over for many of us, it’s time to have a look at what has been happening behind the scenes with our fantastic native-language community. And indeed – it’s a lot of exciting things!

Now that TDF has launched the Android Viewer and even if the application itself is not yet available other than in en_US language, we could at least give its description in several languages.…

LibreOffice 5.0 stands out from the office suite crowd

Windows 10 compatibility and superior interoperability features
Immediately available for Linux, MacOS X and Windows

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Berlin, August 5, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.0, the tenth major release since the launch of the project and the first of the third development cycle. LibreOffice is a full feature open source office suite which compares head to head with every product in the same category, while it stands out for superior interoperability features.…

The road to LibreOffice 5.0

LibreOffice 5.0 will be announced next Wednesday – August 5, 2015 – at noon UTC. It is our tenth major release, and the first of the third stage of LibreOffice development. To show the impressive amount of new features added to LibreOffice since version 3.3, released in January 2011, we have compiled a summary of all previous announcements.…

Behind the scenes at TDF: LibreOffice QA, so much accomplished so far this year!

Many of you are familiar with LibreOffice or one of its predecessors (StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, etc..), but you may not be aware of the immense amount of work that goes into the production of the software and the careful testing of each release. Although there are many different teams within the LibreOffice community who each perform essential roles in the collaborative development process, I don’t have enough space to cover them all today, so I’ll focus on the LibreOffice QA Team, a group of volunteers and employees of various companies around the world who work tirelessly to identify issues with LibreOffice on all platforms, including issues of interoperability, process, accessibility, and ease of use.…