Starting today: The Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! ๐ŸŽ‰

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Here’s your chance to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way: get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve the software – and you can help them.…

LibreOffice 24.2.7 is now available โ€“ the last release in the 24.2 branch

Berlin, 31 October 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.7, the seventh and final planned minor update to the LibreOffice 24.2 branch, is available on our download page for Windows, macOS and Linux.

The release includes over 50 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 24.2.6 [1] to improve the stability and robustness of the software, as well as interoperability with legacy and proprietary document formats.…

Interview with Newly Certified LibreOffice Developer Rafael Lima

The LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) has appointed Prof. Rafael Henrique Palma Lima, from Federal Technological University of Paranรก (UTFPr) as the newest certified LibreOffice developer.

Prof. Lima has been contributing new code to LibreOffice since 2020, and the committee has attested to the quality and value of his contributions to LibreOffice for this certification. We interviewed Prof. Lima, who tells us about the process and what areas of the code he works on.
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Host the LibreOffice Conference 2025 in your location!

LibreOffice Conference 2024 group photo
LibreOffice Conference 2024 (Luxembourg) group photo

Once a year, the LibreOffice community gathers for a global community event: the LibreOffice Conference. After a series of successful events โ€“ Paris, Berlin, Milan, Bern, Aarhus, Brno, Rome, Tirana, Almeria, two events online, Milan again, and Bucharest – it was held in Luxembourg in 2024. And we had a great time!…

Interview: Jonathan Clark, team member, developer focusing on RTL / CTL / CJK

Hello Jonathan, you have been hired by The Document Foundation in the role of developer focusing on the issues of languages written from right to left, or RTL (Right to Left).

Not only RTL topics โ€“ also CTL (Complex Text Layout), and CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean). I wanted to point this out, first for the interest of those communities, and second because I feel strongly about the scope The Document Foundation has chosen for this role.…

Video recap: LibreOffice Conference 2024

Here’s a quick recap of the recent LibreOffice Conference 2024! ๐Ÿ˜Š (This video is also available on PeerTube.)

We now have the raw video from the rooms too, so will start editing and uploading talks…

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