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LibreOffice 7.3.1 Community available for download

Berlin, March 3, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.3.1 Community, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 7.3 family, targeted at technology enthusiasts and power users, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. This version provides a solution to several LibreOffice 7.3 bugs, including the Auto Calculate regression on Calc, the crashes running Calc when lacking AVX instructions and the crashes related to the Skia graphic engine on macOS.

The LibreOffice 7.3 family offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, starting with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats in the areas of security and robustness – to superior support for DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.

Microsoft files are still based on the proprietary format deprecated by ISO in 2008, which is artificially complex, and not on the ISO approved standard. This lack of respect for the ISO standard format may create issues to LibreOffice, and is a huge obstacle for transparent interoperability.

LibreOffice for enterprise deployments

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners, with long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features and Service Level Agreements: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

LibreOffice Community and the LibreOffice Enterprise family of products are based on the LibreOffice Technology platform, the result of years of development efforts with the objective of providing a state of the art office suite not only for the desktop but also for mobile and the cloud.

Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud. They may have a different name, according to each company brand strategy, but they share the same LibreOffice unique advantages, robustness and flexibility.

Availability of LibreOffice 7.3.1 Community

LibreOffice 7.3.1 Community represents the bleeding edge in term of features for open source office suites. For users whose main objective is personal productivity and therefore prefer a release that has undergone more testing and bug fixing over the new features, The Document Foundation provides LibreOffice 7.2.5.

LibreOffice 7.3.1 change log pages are available on TDF’s wiki: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.3.1/RC1 (changed in RC1), https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.3.1/RC2 (changed in RC2) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.3.1/RC3 (changed in RC3).

LibreOffice Technology based products for Android and iOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/, while for App Stores and ChromeOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/

LibreOffice individual users are assisted by a global community of volunteers: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos. Donations help the project to make all of these resources available.

LibreOffice users are invited to join the community at https://ask.libreoffice.org, where they can get and provide user-to-user support. People willing to contribute their time and professional skills to the project can visit the dedicated website at https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can provide financial support to The Document Foundation with a donation via PayPal, credit card or other tools at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.

LibreOffice 7.3.1 is built with document conversion libraries from the Document Liberation Project: https://www.documentliberation.org.

LibreOffice 7.3 Articles in Italian, Polish and Portuguese

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Custom Shape Tutorial

Have you ever tried to draw special and complex shapes beyond the basic offerings of LibreOffice? A custom shape of the Fibonacci spiral defined by its equation and properties with handles to reshape size? Thanks to Regina Henschel, now you have a tutorial for drawing custom shapes of your own and use them in LibreOffice.

Currently, LibreOffice provides a lot of predefined custom shapes. They are grouped to the sets ‘Basic Shapes’, ‘Block Arrows’, ‘Symbol Shapes’, ‘Stars and Banners’, ‘Callouts’, and ‘Flowchart’. And all shapes from the ‘Fontwork Gallery’ are custom shapes too. But you can do more, much more.

Custom Shapes Tutorial

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The Document Foundation suspends RusBITech from its Advisory Board

Following a short exchange of opinions with several community members, as of Saturday 26th of February 2022, TDF has suspended RusBITech’s membership in the Advisory Board.

While TDF does not get involved in politics in any way, the apparent involvement of RusBITech with the Russian Federation’s military complex creates a serious moral concern in the current situation.

We have reached out to RusBITech to explain why suspending – and possibly cancelling – their membership is a necessary step, based on the information we have been able to gather from their website and other trusted online sources. In the past, we have worked constructively with RusBITech’s representatives, and the decision is in no way related to the people themselves and our cooperation around free open source software.

The Document Foundation asks all FOSS advocates and supporters, and all LibreOffice community members, contributors and users across the world to work for peace in these challenging times, and hopes sincerely that the current crisis will soon be over. We will reassess our decision after that.

Further updates will be published when more information will be made available.

The Board of The Document Foundation

Tender to clean up and further improve ODF conformance (#202202-01)

The Document Foundation (TDF) is the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free/libre open source (FLOSS) office suite LibreOffice.

We are looking for an individual or company to clean up and further improve ODF conformance.

The default file format of LibreOffice is ODF, the Open Document Format. We have successfully tendered two projects on the current version 1.3 recently:

The scope of this tender is to further improve the ODF conformance in LibreOffice. Note however that the majority of the items mentioned below are unrelated to ODF version 1.3, and have existed before support of this version was introduced in LibreOffice.

Deliverables

  1. Get ODFAutoTests (https://gitlab.com/odfplugfest/odfautotests) to run again. Note: This item does not ask to setup a publicly available website.
  2. Address one or more of the following high priority issues:
    1. “svg gradient” – Bugs 48392, 76682. Bug 48392 is prerequisite for Bug 76682.
    2. “list indent” – Bugs 78510, 92762, 114287, 83532, 82179, 145318
    3. “Math inline in text box” – Bug 129061. From user point of view it has highest priority.
    4. “numbered paragraph” – Bug 62032, 108868. The internal work is done. But a UI is missing. The expected UI needs to be specified.
    5. “ODF conformance part 1” – These are those errors, which are in most cases not visible for users, and therefore likely never included in a customer contract. Bug 53992, 101758, 103602.

    Please propose a subset and prioritization of these bugs, that do not exceed the person days factored in for this tender, see below.

  3. Address one or more of the following lower priority issues:
    1. “ODF conformance part 2” Bug 106934, Bug 91472, 97706, 107253, 108536, 113404, 113554, 116321, 131148
    2. “Trailing space in cell text not encoded as <text:s/>” – Bug 113726
    3. “FILEOPEN PPTX: equation not displayed because Impress doesn’t support inline formulas”, in particular the as-char embedded object – Bug 129061
    4. “ODF database mime-type confusion” – Bug 45854
    5. “table: evaluates <text:variable-set> in body of float and void cells, but not of string cells” – Bug 68024
    6. “Implement ODF attribute fo:hyphenate to exclude a portion of text from hyphenation” – Bug 106733
    7. “FILESAVE: Form: incorrect ‘time’ type” – Bug 131127
    8. “FILESAVE: Date form: unexpected attribute ‘form:input-required’ – Bug 131148, cf. also https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-4121

    Please propose a subset and prioritization of these bugs, that do not exceed the person days factored in for this tender, see below.

The work has to be developed on LibreOffice master, so that it will be released in the next major version.

A key item of the deliverables for this tender is extensive documentation, about the approach chosen to implement the above items. We expect bidders to provide documentation on both the code and the non-code parts of this tender, e.g. methodology, structure and technical aspects. The Document Foundation will publish this under a free and open source license and make it available to the general public.

Required skills

  • Extensive knowledge of C++
  • Experience working on the LibreOffice source code

Other skills

  • English (conversationally fluent in order to coordinate and plan with members of TDF)

We use free, libre and open source (FLOSS) software for development wherever possible, and the resulting work must be licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2.0.

TDF welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Bidders will get a preference for including a partner or independent developer who has not been involved in a successful tender before.

As always, TDF will give some preference to individuals who have previously shown a commitment to TDF, including but not limited to certified developers and/or members of TDF. Not being a member, or never having contributed before, does not exclude any applicants from consideration.

The task offered is a project-based one-off, with no immediate plans to a mid- or long-term contractual relationship. It is offered on a freelance, project basis. Individuals and companies applying can be located anywhere in the world.

When budgeting, we anticipated that this project (all items combined) to take in the region of 40 days of work. Should bidders’ assessment result in a significantly different number, please reach out to us before sending your bid, so we can clarify upfront.

TDF is looking forward to receiving your applications for one or more of the aforementioned tasks, your financial expectations and the earliest date of your availability, via e-mail to a committee at tender20220201@documentfoundation.org no later than March 31, 2022.

Applicants who have not received feedback by April 29, 2022 should consider that their application, after careful review, was not accepted.

All bidders are invited to ask their questions on this tender until March 24, 2022. Questions and answers will be made public in a collected and anonymized form.

LibreOffice 7.3 Articles in Czech, French and German

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Press Releases

Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.4

Berlin, 18 December 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.4, the fourth minor update to the free office suite developed by volunteers for…

Open Document Format

The importance of ODF during the festive season

To be honest, I didn't think I would publish my usual post about ODF over the festive period, as most…