Projects selected for LibreOffice in the Google Summer of Code 2024

The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2024.

  • Adam Seskunas – More and better tests: the project aims to add automated tests for fixes related to document export as well as converting tests written in Java to C++.
  • Ahmed Hamed – Improvement to the Functions Deck in LibreOffice Calc: the functions deck in the Sidebar will get a better search, an editor area with syntax highlighting and debugging capabilities among other enhancements.

Announcement of LibreOffice 24.2.3 Community

Berlin, 2 May 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.3 Community, the third minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available at https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows, macOS and Linux.

The release includes around 80 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 24.2.2 [1] to improve the stability and robustness of the software.…

Do something awesome – Join the Month of LibreOffice, May 2024!

Month of LibreOffice banner

Want to learn new skills, for a potential future career change? Or just expand your knowledge and have fun on the way? Get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve the software – and you can help them. There are many ways to get involved, as you’ll see in a second.…

LibreOffice project and community recap: April 2024

InstallFest 2024 Prague

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

Calc Guide and Writer Guides available for browsing

LibreOffice Guides in HTML

The Documentation team just published the Calc Guide and Writer Guide as on-line pages in the Bookshelf at https://books.libreoffice.org

Presented as web pages, the guides contents can now be accessed with your favorite browser and use the browser resources to navigate, bookmark and reference pages.

Together with the PDF versions, the guides web pages can be downloaded and installed in local networks using a simple web server.…

Community Member Monday: Kira Tubo

Kira Tubo

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I live in San Jose, California, USA. I’ve lived around the Bay Area my whole life, after my parents moved away from the Philippines when I was about a year old.

I have had experience as a CRM (customer relations management) administrator, which partially functioned sort of like an internal tech support position, and I’ve also done crowdsourced testing and a11y (accessibility) testing as a side hustle.…