Release of LibreOffice 7.4.2 Community

Berlin, October 13, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.4.2 Community, the second maintenance release of LibreOffice 7.4, the volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity on the desktop, is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows (Intel and Arm processors), macOS (Apple M1 and Intel processors), and Linux. LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats for security and robustness – to superior support for MS Office files, to filters for a large number of legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users. A description of all new features of the LibreOffice 7.4.x releases is available in the Release Notes: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.4 A video summarizing the top new features in LibreOffice 7.4 Community is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC8M4UzqpqE and PeerTube: https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/myZUTCytN28kuxDa5VXNgh LibreOffice Technology Platform Products based on the LibreOffice Technology platform – the transactional engine shared by all LibreOffice based products, which provides a rock solid solution with a high level of coherence and interoperability – are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), for mobile platforms (Android and iOS), and for the cloud. For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the

LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4 is updated

The Documentation Team has released an updated edition of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4 (revision 1) with new contents on sparklines and conditional formatting. Typos and last minute mistakes and formatting were also fixed in this release. The guide is now available for download in PDF and ODF format and an online version is also available in the Bookshelf project. The LibreOffice community is grateful of the volunteer work of Skip Masonsmith, flywire and Roman Kuznetsov for their contributions. The job for the next release of the Calc Guide is ready to start. Download the latest LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4 at the documentation website or the bookshelf page. Reference: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/08/31/libreoffice-calc-guide-7-4-is-released/

LibreOffice 7.4.1 Community available for download

Berlin, September 15, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.4.1 Community, the first maintenance release of LibreOffice 7.4, the volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity on the desktop, is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows (Intel and Arm processors), macOS (Apple M1 and Intel processors), and Linux. LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats for security and robustness – to superior support for MS Office files, to filters for a large number of legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users. Most Significant New Features of LibreOffice 7.4 GENERAL • Support for WebP images and EMZ/WMZ files • Help pages for the ScriptForge scripting library • Search field for the Extension Manager • Performance and compatibility improvements WRITER • Better change tracking in the footnote area • Edited lists show original numbers in change tracking • New typographic settings for hyphenation CALC • Support for 16,384 columns in spreadsheets • Extra functions in drop-down AutoSum widget • New menu item to search for sheet names IMPRESS • New support for document themes A video summarizing the top new features of the LibreOffice 7.4

LibreOffice 7.3.6 Community has been released

Berlin, September 8, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.3.6 Community, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.3 family for Windows, macOS (for Apple and Intel silicon) and Linux, targeted at personal productivity users, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. 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. For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners, with long-term support options, professional assistance 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. They may have a different name, according to each company brand strategy, but they share the same LibreOffice unique advantages, robustness and flexibility. 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 7.3.6 change log pages are available on TDF’s wiki: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.3.6/RC1 (changed in RC1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.3.6/RC2 (changed in RC2). LibreOffice individual users are assisted by a global community of

LibreOffice 7.4 Community, a benchmark for interoperability

Development is now focused on interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats, and many new features are targeted at users migrating from MS Office Berlin, August 18, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.4 Community, the new major release of the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux. Most Significant New Features GENERAL Support for WebP images and EMZ/WMZ files Help pages for the ScriptForge scripting library Search field for the Extension Manager Performance and compatibility improvements WRITER Better change tracking in the footnote area Edited lists show original numbers in change tracking New typographic settings for hyphenation CALC Support for 16,384 columns in spreadsheets Extra functions in drop-down AutoSum widget New menu item to search for sheet names IMPRESS New support for document themes A video summarizing the top new features in LibreOffice 7.4 Community is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC8M4UzqpqE and PeerTube: https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/myZUTCytN28kuxDa5VXNgh. A description of all new features is available in the Release Notes [1] Interoperability Based on the distinctive features of the LibreOffice Technology platform for personal productivity on desktop, mobile and cloud, LibreOffice 7.4 provides a large number of improvements and new features targeted at

Community Member Monday: Juan C. Sanz

Today we’re chatting with Juan C. Sanz, who helps out in many LibreOffice projects: documentation, translations, user help and more… Tell us a bit about yourself! I live in the city of Logroño, in the autonomous community of La Rioja (famous for its wines), in the north of Spain. Although I like reading a lot, my main passion is computers in general. Almost all the time I have been working as a helicopter engineer, but due to my passion, while I was working, I studied to get a degree in Computer Science (Programming) and I was working as a programmer for a while without leaving my main job with helicopters. When did you join the LibreOffice community, and how was the experience? I like to say that I have been collaborating with LibreOffice since before LibreOffice existed and it is really true, how is that possible? Well, my history with LibreOffice started, like many of us, in OpenOffice. When I discovered the existence of OpenOffice I loved both the program and the possibility of getting it for free (then I didn’t know about FLOSS – I thought only about “gratis”). But at the same time, I realized that there was