Carlos Parra Zaldivar, 1961 – 2022

Sad news from the Hispanic LibreOffice community. Carlos Parra Zaldivar, a long-time collaborator in the community, member of The Document Foundation and advocate for Free Software, passed away on November 20th.

The commitment that Carlos showed to the LibreOffice project, Free Software and document freedom, from his native Cuba, transcended the borders of that island. We in the global LibreOffice community are very grateful to Carlos for all his work, and hope his loved ones can find strength in this difficult time.

Rest in peace, Carlos.

Czech translation of LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4

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

The Czech team translated the Calc Guide 7.4 – and it’s now available on the documentation page. Our team consist of three translators: Petr Kuběj, Radomír Strnad and Zdeněk Crhonek, along with localized screenshot maker Roman Toman, and Miloš Šrámek, who prepared machine translations. The team is now working on the Base Guide 7.3.

Indeed, many thanks to everyone in the Czech community for their work! Learn more about LibreOffice’s documentation project here.

LibreOffice 7.4.4 Community available for download

Donate logoBerlin, January 12, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.4.4 Community, the fourth maintenance release of LibreOffice 7.4, the volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity on the desktop, is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows (Intel and Arm processors), macOS (Apple M1 and Intel processors), and Linux.

LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats for security and robustness – to superior support for MS Office files, to filters for a large number of legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users.

LibreOffice Technology Platform

Products based on the LibreOffice Technology platform – the transactional engine shared by all LibreOffice based products, which provides a rock solid solution with a high level of coherence and interoperability – are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), for mobile platforms (Android and iOS), and for the cloud.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners – for desktop, mobile and cloud – with a large number of dedicated value-added features and other benefits such as SLA (Service Level Agreements): https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/. All code developed by ecosystem companies for enterprise customers is shared with the community and improves the LibreOffice Technology platform.

LibreOffice – thanks to its mature codebase, rich feature set, strong support for open standards, excellent compatibility and LTS options from certified partners – is the ideal solution for businesses that want to regain control of their data and free themselves from vendor lock-in.

Availability of LibreOffice 7.4.4 Community

LibreOffice 7.4.4 Community is available from: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Apple macOS 10.12. LibreOffice Technology-based products for Android and iOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/

Users still deploying the LibreOffice 7.3 family because of the additional testing and bug fixing, should switch immediately to LibreOffice 7.4.4, which has been extensively tested by millions of users worldwide, as the older version have reached the end of life and are not be maintained after November 30, 2022.

The Document Foundation does not provide technical support for users, although they can get it from volunteers on user mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website: https://ask.libreoffice.org

Donate logoLibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation with a donation at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate

Change log pages:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.4.4/RC1 (changed in RC1)
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.4.4/RC2 (changed in RC2)

Video: LibreOffice project and community in 2022 💪

Here’s a quick recap of what we did in the LibreOffice community in 2022! Well, just a few of the many things 😉 Thanks to everyone who contributed last year! (PeerTube version of this video here.)

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LibreOffice project and community recap: December 2022

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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…

  • We started by announcing the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2022. Thanks to everyone who took part – and if you requested your stickers or extra merch, it’s on its way! (The post is quite slow at this time of year, so it may take a while longer.)

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Kevin Suo

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  • Finally, we wished everyone in the community a happy new year – and want to say a huge thank you for everyone’s contributions in 2022. LibreOffice keeps going from strength to strength, thanks to your help 😊

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