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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more! The biggest news in August was the release of LibreOffice 7.2, which includes many new features, updates and fixes. Our Indonesian community created a video showcasing the changes (PeerTube version here). We’re looking forward to the LibreOffice Conference 2021, coming up in September – and we now have a logo, thanks to Alan Ward! Also in August, The Document Foundation announced two tenders to work on LibreOffice’s source code base: implement an autoupdater, and implement support for editing and creation of a Dynamic Diagram feature. Deadlines for applications are September 20. Our series of guides to fixing interoperability bugs in LibreOffice continued this month with part 2 and part 3. Meanwhile, we issued special Open Badges to members of the Czech documentation community. Great work, everyone! In the LibreOffice project, we make use of various social media platforms to spread the word, and bring new contributors to us. We posted about the importance of LinkedIn pages for our projects, and how we’re growing them. French social-impact company Hypra, focused on accessibility in free and open source

Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month… We started June by announcing the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2021! In the end, 406 contributors won sticker packs – making it the most successful ever. And we had some extra merchandise to give away too! On June 10, LibreOffice 7.1.4 Community was made available for download, with 80 bugfixes and compatibility improvements. Thanks as always to our volunteers and certified developers for their work on it! In technology news, The Document Foundation announced and updated three tenders during the month: implement automated ODF filter regression testing, implement master document fixes and implement Curl based HTTP/WebDAV UCP. If you have some C++ coding knowledge and experience with LibreOffice’s codebase, take a look. In June we also posted some sections from our Annual Report 2020: Documentation Team Activities, Website, blogs and social media and Attracting new contributors to LibreOffice. Hossein Nourikhah joined the TDF team as Developer Community Architect. He’ll help to onboard new developers in the project, give them code pointers, and assist them as they add new features. Welcome, Hossein! Meanwhile, ODF 1.3 was announced as an OASIS standard. ODF (OpenDocument Format) is

Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month… Right on the first day of May, we started a new Month of LibreOffice, showing our thanks to everyone involved in the LibreOffice project and community. Everyone who contributes during the month can get a sticker pack – and a chance to win extra merch. We’ll announce the full winners here in the next few days! Throughout the month, we posted various sections from our Annual Report 2020: LibreOffice Conference, Design Community work, and Native Language Projects. In addition, we published the final PDF version, so check it out to read all the sections in one nice bundle! Did you know that you can work with 3D objects in LibreOffice? Long-time community member Regina Henschel wrote a tutorial showing how to make a 3D globe, using a map and a sphere. Rather neat… In May, TDF announced two bugfix updates for LibreOffice: 7.0.6 and 7.1.3. This marks the last release of the 7.0 branch – from here on, we will be maintaining the LibreOffice 7.1 series. Meanwhile, the PowerPoint compatibility team reported on its recent work, showing how PPTX presentations are imported more accurately into recent versions

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 the month by chatting with Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, a long-time member of the LibreOffice community. He told us how he joined the project, what he’s working on, and where he thinks we should go in the future… Our yearly conference took place this month (more on that later), but before it started, we added merchandise to our online shop. It’s still there, so don’t miss the chance to get a cool 2020 hoodie, T-shirt, bag or baseball cap! There were two bugfix updates to LibreOffice in October: 7.0.2 on the 8th, and 7.0.3 on the 29th. With these releases, LibreOffice 7.0 is becoming a mature branch of the suite, and 6.4 will no longer receive updates after the end of November. Meanwhile, the Indonesian LibreOffice community announced the results of their Impress template contest. Check out the results – they created many professional and attractive templates for presentations. Great work, everyone! On the 19th, we caught up with Marcin Popko, who joined the project recently to help out with social media in Poland. Thanks