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In 2020, LibreOffice celebrated its tenth birthday. Two new major versions of the suite introduced a variety of new features, while minor releases helped to improve stability as well (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version will be posted here on the blog soon.) The Document Foundation announced two major releases of LibreOffice in 2020: version 6.4 on January 29, and version 7.0 on August 5. In addition, 13 minor releases were made available over the year: RELEASE DATE LibreOffice 6.3.5 February 20 LibreOffice 6.4.1 February 27 LibreOffice 6.4.2 March 19 LibreOffice 6.4.3 April 16 LibreOffice 6.3.6 April 30 LibreOffice 6.4.4 May 21 LibreOffice 6.4.5 July 2 LibreOffice 6.4.6 August 13 LibreOffice 7.0.1 September 3 LibreOffice 7.0.2 October 8 LibreOffice 6.4.7 October 22 LibreOffice 7.0.3 October 29 LibreOffice 7.0.4 December 17 Throughout the year, we held three Bug Hunting Sessions in preparation for new major releases. These typically took place on a single day between set times, so that experienced developers and QA engineers could help new volunteers to file and triage bugs via the IRC channels and mailing lists. The Bug Hunting Sessions for LibreOffice 7.0 were held on May 11

In 2020 we had with elections for the foundation’s Membership Committee, along with regular Advisory Board calls, and support for other projects and activities (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version will be posted here on the blog soon.) Election of new Membership Committee (MC) Members – more formally known as the “Board of Trustees” – are a crucial part of The Document Foundation. They are people from across the globe who contribute time, effort and skills, whether on a voluntary or paid basis. Members can vote for the Board of Directors (aka BoD) and the Membership Committee (MC), and also nominate themselves for a position in the BoD and the MC. The mission of the MC is to administer membership applications and renewals following the criteria defined in the Foundation’s Statutes. In July, we announced the process of elections for the next MC, which is in place from 19 September 2020 until 18 September 2022. Initially, we started by opening up nominations; TDF members could nominate themselves for a position in the MC, or nominate others. On 1 September, Franklin Weng announced the final list of 13 candidates, along with the

2020 was a year to remember, because of LibreOffice’s 10th anniversary and the COVID-19 pandemic, which impacted our lives, hindered travel and canceled community meetings (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version is here.) On March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, few could foresee the long road ahead or the different ways in which people would suffer: the deaths and agony of millions, the damaged economies, the disrupted lives and near-universal loneliness and isolation. At the end of 2020, over 100 million people were confirmed to have been infected and, according to Johns Hopkins, more than two million people had died. Some were still dreaming of a return to normal, thanks to vaccines that seemed to materialize as if by magic. Let’s look back at where we were when we first understood how drastically our lives would change. We were planning LibreOffice events in Asia and Latin America, as in 2019, and a LibreOffice Conference in Germany, in the lovely medieval city of Nuremberg. We were also planning to attend conferences in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, to celebrate LibreOffice’s 10th anniversary. We were planning