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 Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.4.5

Berlin, July 30, 2015 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 4.4.5, the fifth minor release of the LibreOffice 4.4 family, with over 80 fixes over the previous version. LibreOffice 4.4.5 is replacing LibreOffice 4.3.7 as the “still” version for more conservative users and enterprise deployments.

The Document Foundation suggests to deploy LibreOffice in enterprises and large organizations with the backing of professional support by certified people (a list is available at: http://www.documentfoundation.org/certification/

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.…

Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 published as International Standard 26300:2015 by ISO/IEC

odf12Berlin, July 17, 2015 – The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) Version 1.2, the native file format of LibreOffice and many other applications, has been published as International Standard 26300:2015 by ISO/IEC. ODF defines a technical schema for office documents including text documents, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents like drawings or presentations.

“ODF 1.2 is the native file format of LibreOffice.…

TDF Freelance Job Opening (#201507-01) – Development Mentoring Lead

The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks a

Development Mentoring Lead

to start work as soon as possible. The role, which is scheduled for 20 hours a week, includes amongst other items:

  • Helping new contributors to get started with LibreOffice code including:
    • building LibreOffice
    • getting started with patch submittal on gerrit
    • patrol bugzilla, github and mailing lists for patches uploaded there and help author to upload to gerrit proper
    • clarifying beginner tasks (Easy Hacks) and connecting beginners with domain experts
    • manage, update and watch the list of beginner tasks
    • select attractive beginner tasks and promote, share and advertise those
    • together with other TDF staff, manage quick access to TDF cloud resources for developers (see: Anytime Builder VMs for Developers and Using a VM)
    • Talking to people
      • make the first time contributors feel they are awesome
      • get them to IRC ASAP
      • watch them, ping them, ask them what’s the next thing they want to
      • work on, help them to choose if they are unsure
  • ensure changes are not lingering too long (2 weeks) on gerrit unreviewed by reviewing them or finding someone to review them
  • organizing, announcing and leading regular events for onboarding beginners (virtual Hackfests)
  • updating, steamlining and maintaining developer documentation
  • broadening developer resources with podcasts or screencasts for newcomers
  • reporting and blogging about interesting developments on LibreOffice code to attract new contributors
  • regularly check back with the existing volunteer developer base:
    • to identify and clear out stumbling blocks
    • to learn about reasons why volunteers move on
  • encourage contributors with basic experience to move on from EasyHacks to more challenging and interesting tasks
  • coordinate with QA, design and other groups in the LibreOffice community
  • put outstanding volunteer contributions into the limelight
  • take part in weekly Engineering Steering Committee meetings
  • reach out to other OSS communities (desktop environments, programming languages and frameworks, databases, IDEs etc.)