Double Gift for the Community: Impress Guide 7.5 and Draw Guide 7.5

The community documentation team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the Impress Guide 7.5 and Draw Guide 7.5. The guides are updated to the latest LibreOffice release as a community effort to keep our literature sharp and up to date.

Impress and Draw Guides

The double gift is brought to you by Peter Schofield with valuable contributions by Socks Eight, members of the documentation team.…

The Document Foundation’s Annual Report 2022

TDF Annual Report 2022

The Annual Report of The Document Foundation describes the foundation’s activities and projects, especially in regards to LibreOffice and the Document Liberation Project.

We’ve been posting sections of the 2022 report here on the blog, and now the full version is available in PDF format on TDF’s Nextcloud server in two different versions: low resolution (8.2MB) and high resolution (57.4MB).…

LibreOffice project and community recap: July 2023

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

Michael Weghorn

  • Talking of the TDF team: in June, team members met in Munich to discuss ideas and proposals for the community and software.

Czech translation of LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4 – and more news

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Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:

The Czech team has finished its translation of the LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4. As usual it was team work, namely: translations by Petr Kuběj, Zdeněk Crhonek and Radomír Strnad; localized pictures by Roman Toman; and technical support from Miloš Šrámek. Thanks to all the team for their work!

Try our updated Extensions and Templates site!

Screenshot of LibreOffice extensions and template website

LibreOffice includes a wide range of features, covering most use-cases. But it also supports extensions for more functionality, and our worldwide community has submitted hundreds of great extensions (and templates).

Recently, our new Web Developer Juan José González (aka “JJ”) improved the design of the site, to make it more usable and visually appealing, including:

  • Counters for number of downloads
  • A more prominent search bar
  • Tag filters in a menu on the left
  • Larger sort order buttons
  • Easier to read dates of last update (e.g.

LibreOffice 7.5.5 Community available for download

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Berlin, July 20, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.5.5 Community, the fifth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from our download page for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux [1].

Given the upcoming announcement of LibreOffice 7.6, all users are invited to update to this version, which has been tested and sought after enough to be ready for production environments.…