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In 2021, LibreOffice celebrated its eleventh 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 2021 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) The Document Foundation announced two major releases of LibreOffice in 2021: version 7.1 on February 3, and version 7.2 on August 19. In addition 13 minor releases were also made available: LibreOffice 7.1.1 – March 4 LibreOffice 7.0.5 – March 12 LibreOffice 7.1.2 – April 1 LibreOffice 7.1.3 – May 6 LibreOffice 7.0.6 – May 13 LibreOffice 7.1.4 – June 10 LibreOffice 7.1.5 – July 22 LibreOffice 7.1.6 – September 9 LibreOffice 7.2.1 – September 16 LibreOffice 7.1.7 – November 4 LibreOffice 7.2.3 – November 25 LibreOffice 7.2.4 and 7.1.8 – December 6 In July, our Quality Assurance community organised a Bug Hunting Session in preparation for the release of LibreOffice 7.2. This was based on the first Release Candidate (RC), and we encouraged technically-minded users to try out the RC and help to identify and fix bugs before the final release. Communication took part on our QA IRC channel, which is

Bringing new community members on board and helping them get started is an essential part of our work. Here’s what we did in 2020 (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version is here.) Onboarding tools and sites Joining a large and established project like LibreOffice can be daunting for many. The software has a large codebase, and its sub-projects use a wide array of tools. In recent years, we’ve made efforts to simplify the onboarding process by linking more services together with SSO (single sign-on), thereby reducing some of the complexity. In addition, we’ve created Easy Hacks and similar “bite size” projects in other areas, so that newcomers can get involved quickly and achieve something – without months of work. Currently, we have two websites that function as starting points for new contributors: What Can I Do For LibreOffice and Get Involved. The former was set up by LibreOffice’s Albanian community, and lets users click through topics of interest, until they find something they want to do. The latter is a regular page, with a list of sub-projects inside LibreOffice, and quick steps to make initial contact. Throughout 2020, we posted regular

We use our website, blogs and social media channels to raise awareness about our work, share information and encourage new contributors to join the LibreOffice community (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version is here.) Social media In January 2020, our Twitter account had 29,340 followers; by the end of the year, we had grown this to 36,996. Our most popular tweets were for major releases, but we also tweeted customised images for “Community Member Monday” interviews with short quotes, encouraging more users to get involved with LibreOffice projects. In addition, we focused not only on our own tweets, but also retweeting announcements from the LibreOffice ecosystem and community members. We liked and retweeted messages of support from end users – many of whom were surprised and thankful that a large project would show them support. To keep the content flowing, we used automatic tweeting tools to post daily LibreOffice tips, using the same content from the “Tip of the day” box in the app itself. On other social media platforms, we focused on growing our account on Mastodon, a Twitter-like open source, federated and self-hosted microblogging service. In 2019 we set