LibreOffice project and community recap: September 2023

LibreOffice Conference 2023 group photo

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • We started the month by highlighting upcoming events: the LibreOffice Conference 2023 (which has now finished – more on that in a moment); the Latin American Conference, and LibreOffice Conf.Asia.

Conference logos

  • Next up, we had a bunch of LibreOffice Expert magazines to give away to schools and local communities.

Important release of LibreOffice 7.6.2 Community and LibreOffice 7.5.7 Community with key security fix

A drawing of a generic "bug" with four colours on its back: red, green, blue, yellow.Berlin, 26 September 2023 – The Document Foundation is releasing LibreOffice 7.6.2 Community and LibreOffice 7.5.7 Community ahead of schedule to address a security issue known as CVE 2023-4863, which originates in a widely used code library known as libwebp, created by Google more than a decade ago to render the then-new WebP graphics format [1].…

LibreOffice Conference 2023: Group photos

LibreOffice Conference 2023 group photo

LibreOffice Conference 2023 group photo

The LibreOffice Conference 2023 begins!

Conference organisers

Yes, it has started! Check out the conference website for live streams and more information – and a big thanks to the organisers, sponsors and supporters.

Here’s to a great event 😊

LibreOffice Conference 2023 in Bucharest

LibreOffice Conference 2023 will be hosted by the Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București, Facultatea de Automatică și Calculatoare (National University of Science and Technology, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science) at the PRECIS building from Wednesday 20 September to Saturday 23 Septembe. On Wednesday, the community will gather for the usual community meeting to discuss localisation and marketing activities at the local level.

LibreOffice and Google Summer of Code 2023: The results

Google Summer of Code logo

This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more developers into free and open source software development. Five projects were finished successfully. Contributors and mentors enjoyed the time, and here we present some of the achievements, which should make their way into LibreOffice 24.2 in early February 2024!…