Berlin, October 27, 2016 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 5.1.6, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 5.1 family launched in January 2016, targeted at individual users and enterprise deployments. Users of previous LibreOffice releases should start planning the update to the new version.
For enterprise deployments, The Document Foundation suggests the backing of professional support by certified developers, migrators and trainers (the full list is available at: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/…
On Monday we talked to Heiko Tietze who is LibreOffice’s user experience (UX) mentor, and today we’re going to look at some changes that the Design team has implemented in recent releases of the suite. You can see how new features are implemented to make them accessible without drastically changing the overall design of the software.…
Following the success of the LibreOffice Conference Telegram channel, we have asked our community – through an informal poll on the Telegram channel itself – if they wanted to keep the channel alive and change the name to LibreOffice Community. The feedback has been overwhelming, as 21 out of the 22 answers have been positive.
We have therefore changed the name of the Telegram channel to LibreOffice Community, and made the channel public to allow everyone to subscribe.…
We now come to our final Community Week for October 2016, and this time we’re talking to the Design team. Design is an essential aspect of LibreOffice development, and it’s sometimes tough to find the right balance: some users want the interface to change rapidly with each release, whereas others are more conservative and prefer an incremental approach.…
Earlier this week we talked to LibreOffice’s quality assurance (QA) engineer, Xisco Fauli, about how the QA team works, what they’re involved with at the moment, and where they need help. Let’s now look at how regular LibreOffice users can get involved: even if you can only spare a little bit of time each week, you can really make a difference to strengthen and improve the software.…
Having covered development and documentation, we’re now into our third LibreOffice Community Week: Quality Assurance (or just “QA” for short). QA is an essential element of the LibreOffice development process, and affects the suite in many ways. For the benefit of end users, QA helps to identify and fix bugs – whether they’re glitches in the behaviour of the office suite, or problems that arise when importing certain files, or just issues with the user interface.…
Berlin, October 27, 2016 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 5.1.6, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 5.1 family launched in January 2016, targeted at individual users and enterprise deployments. Users of previous LibreOffice releases should start planning the update to the new version.