LibreOffice 7.6.1 Community available for download

Berlin, September 14, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.6.1 Community, the first minor release of the 7.6 family of the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple and Intel processors) and Linux is immediately available from www.libreoffice.org/download. LibreOffice is the only open source office suite for personal productivity which can be compared feature-by-feature with the market leader. LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, with native support for the Open Document Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats for security and robustness – to superior support for MS Office files, along with filters for a large number of legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users. Based on the advanced features of the LibreOffice Technology platform for personal productivity on desktop, mobile and cloud, the LibreOffice 7.6 family provides a large number of improvements and new features targeted at users sharing documents with MS Office or migrating from MS Office. These users should check new releases of LibreOffice on a regular basis, as the progress is so fast, that each new version improves dramatically over the previous one. LibreOffice 7.6 Community Highlights GENERAL Support for zoom gestures

LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2023

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 August by posting the full version of TDF’s Annual Report 2022. The Document Foundation is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, and our report highlights community and project activities in the previous year. Check it out! Next up was a double gift from the LibreOffice documentation team: Impress Guide 7.5 and Draw Guide 7.5. Big thanks to everyone who helped to update the guides 👍 Our native-language communities use Weblate to translate LibreOffice’s user interface. Thanks to donations, The Document Foundation has been able to fund some Weblate improvements, to help all users. The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock 30 on August 16, 1993. The Debian Community celebrates its birthday, Debian Day, on this day each year. And we celebrated 30 years with them, as they are one of the organizations supporting the LibreOffice project since day one. The biggest news in August was the release of LibreOffice 7.6, with a bunch of new features and updates. Many thanks to all community members, developers and ecosystem companies that contributed to this release!

Announcement of LibreOffice 7.6 Community

Berlin, August 21, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.6 Community, the new major release of the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, and the last based on the historical release numbering scheme (first digit for release cycle, second digit for major release), is immediately available from www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple and Intel processors), and Linux. Starting from 2024, TDF will adopt calendar based-release numbering, so the next major release will be LibreOffice 24.2 in February 2024. LibreOffice is the only open source office suite for personal productivity which can be compared feature-by-feature with the market leader. After twelve years and five release cycles – code cleaning, code refactoring, polishing the user interface, extending to new hardware and software platforms, and optimizing interoperability with OOXML to support users – it is increasingly difficult to develop entirely new features, so most of them are refinements or improvements of existing ones. Highlights of LibreOffice 7.6 Community GENERAL Support for zoom gestures when using touchpads in the main view. Support for document themes, and import and export of theme definitions for ODF and OOXML documents. Many improvements to font handling, especially for right-to-left scripts, CJK and other Asian alphabets. WRITER

LibreOffice project and community recap: July 2023

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 July by welcoming Michael Weghorn to The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice. Michael is a developer and will initially focus on accessibility improvements. Talking of the TDF team: in June, team members met in Munich to discuss ideas and proposals for the community and software. They worked on lots of topics – and now we’ve uploaded the report of the meeting. Check it out and let us know what you think! More news from the foundation: the Membership Committee (MC), which is responsible for managing membership applications and renewals, announced a new membership management system called Proteus. Meanwhile, our documentation and localisation communities did some great work: they updated the Getting Started Guide to LibreOffice 7.5, and finished a Czech translation of the LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4. Awesome! We had one release in July, LibreOffice 7.5.5. This is the fifth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 7.5 branch, and all users are recommended to get the update. And finally: our Extensions and Templates website received a bunch of improvements, thanks to TDF’s new Web

Czech translation of LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4 – and more news

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! The Czech translation of the Draw guide 7.4 is available for download from this page. Now the team continues with translation of the Impress Guide 7.5. We always looking for new translators and correctors. Join us! Migration protocol translated into Czech Thanks to Jana Švejdová for translating the LibreOffice Migration Protocol into Czech, and HeroClan for finding a volunteer. The protocol represents a reference for migrations, based on best practices from some of the most successful projects. The file is available on the Czech website.

LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2023

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 June by announcing the LibreOffice Conf Asia x UbuCon Asia 2023, in Indonesia, an event that brings together Linux and Open Source Software (OSS) activists, contributors, users, communities, and businesses in the Asia region. It will take place from 6 – 8 October 2023 – find out more here! Meanwhile, LibreOffice project volunteers received a cool tribute from the Mexican “Instituto Integración Down”. Nice 👍 Next up: we announced the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2023. Sticker packs and extra merchandise are on their way… On June 8, TDF announced LibreOffice 7.5.4 Community, the fourth minor update to the 7.5 family. How can we make LibreOffice and the Thunderbird email client work better together? That’s a question we asked, and we posted some ideas from our communities. Let’s make them happen! At the upcoming LibreOffice Conference 2023, there’ll be a workshop about getting started with development of the suite. The organisers prepared a nice poster with info (click to expand): Finally, we posted some more sections from TDF’s Annual Report 2022: marketing