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Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month… We started off by releasing LibreOffice 7.1.2, an update with over 60 bug fixes and improvements to document compatibility. Meanwhile, the Council of the German city of Dortmund announced that it’s moving to free and open source software, where possible. This is great news: in the future, the city administration will have to justify why open source software cannot be used for every proprietary software application. There were several documentation updates in April, thanks to our busy community: the Brazilian Community launched the LibreOffice 7.0 Getting Started Guide in Portuguese, while the Writer Guide 7.1 also arrived. Great work, everyone! Gökçe Kuler from the Turkish LibreOffice community is helping to fix bugs in the software. She told us about her experiences joining the project, and her tips for others who want to get involved. In the middle of the month, we announced the dates for the (online) LibreOffice Conference 2021. It will be a fully virtual event for the second consecutive year, from September 23 (Thursday) to September 25 (Saturday). We also announced the Call for Papers – join in and submit a talk! Next up: the

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 May by announcing the Month of LibreOffice – showing our appreciation for contributions from our worldwide community. Everyone who contributed to LibreOffice throughout May can claim a cool sticker pack, and also has a chance to win extra merchandise. We’ll announce the winners here on the blog in the coming days – stay tuned! Meanwhile, our documentation community announced the LibreOffice Base Guide 6.2. This covers the database component of LibreOffice – a big thanks to Pulkit Krishna, Dan Lewis, Jean Hollis Weber, Alain Romedenne, Jean-Pierre Ledure and Randolph Gamo for their work on it. Next up: the Google Summer of Code, a global programme focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. LibreOffice took part last year, which led to some great new features including a QR code generator and NotebookBar improvements. LibreOffice is taking part again in 2020, with six projects – click the link to check them out… Throughout the month, we put online sections from our Annual Report 2019. The first was LibreOffice in 2019, followed by

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more! On August 8, we announced LibreOffice 6.3, a new major release with better performance, a large number of new and improved features, and enhanced interoperability with proprietary document formats. 10 days later, we followed this up with a look at some statistics – there had been 430,000 downloads of the new version, and 54,000 views of the press release. Check out some of the new features in this short video: Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video. By accepting, you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Meanwhile, we posted reports from the the LibreOffice Asia Conference, which took place earlier in the year. Part 1 looks at how the free and open source software (FOSS) ecosystem is growing in Asia, while part 2 examines how software affects the autonomy of countries. Oh and speaking of conferences, don’t forget that the LibreOffice Conference 2019 is taking

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more! ODF (the Open Document Format) is the native file format of LibreOffice, and is a fully open and standardised format, ideal for long-term document storage. At the start of the month, we announced COSM – the Community of ODF Specification Maintainers, to hold funds and to retain editors to work at the ODF Technical Committee. The goal is to accelerate development of the standard, and build up experienced editors. Find out more here. We put the next part of our Annual Report 2018 online! Our native language communities around the world help to improve LibreOffice and share knowledge – and their passion and dedication is wonderful. LibreOffice wouldn’t be what it is today without their great work! On July 4th, we announced LibreOffice 6.2.5. This includes 118 bugfixes, thanks to our worldwide community and ecosystem of certified developers. Meanwhile, work continues on LibreOffice 6.3 (due to be released in early August), and our QA community organised a Bug Hunting Session. Give us a hand in future sessions to ensure that LibreOffice stays rock-solid! We talked to

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project last month – click the links to learn more! We started by announcing the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2019! 355 sticker packs were awarded – the most ever – along with 12 exclusive glass mugs. Don’t forget to check the wiki page to see if your name (or username) is included, and claim your stickers! Want to start hacking on the LibreOffice source code? We translated a guide by a Hungarian community member, that explains registering with Git and Gerrit, and local settings. Just follow the steps, and you’re ready to go! Later in the month, we followed this up with a guide to downloading the source code and building it on Linux. In our next C++ workshop, we looked at MSTs and Graph Implementations. Stay tuned to this blog for more workshops! In LibreOffice 6.3, which is due to be released in August, The Document Foundation won’t be building 32-bit binary packages for GNU/Linux. But! That doesn’t mean that 32-bit compatibility is being removed. We prepared a statement to clarify the position, so if you use LibreOffice on a 32-bit Linux system, make sure

May was an especially busy month in the project, with new releases of LibreOffice, events, workshops, interviews and more. Check it out… We started with a new Month of LibreOffice. These are twice-yearly campaigns where we encourage people to join our community and help to improve the software. Everyone who contributes can claim a cool sticker pack at the end – and this year, we have some exclusive glass mugs for a randomly selected bunch of winners too! Learn all about it here. We’re all looking forward to the upcoming LibreOffice Conference in September, in Spain – but we’re also looking further ahead, to 2020! If you’d like to organise our conference that year, bringing together LibreOffice developers, supporters and users, see our call for locations. Applications are open until the end of June. You’ve probably heard of the Google Summer of Code, right? Well now there’s the Google Season of Docs – and LibreOffice is taking part! The goal is to give technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in contributing to open source projects, and to give open source projects an opportunity to engage the technical writing community. In May, we had two new releases of LibreOffice, thanks