Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… At the start of the month, the LibreOffice Conference 2025 took place in Budapest, Hungary. We had talks, workshops, fun social events and more. Thanks to all who attended 😊 See […]| The Document Foundation Blog
From October 6 to 9, Havana, Cuba, will host the Latin American LibreOffice 2025 Conference, a meeting that will bring together contributors, developers, universities, and governments from the region to celebrate and strengthen free software. This year, the Latin American conference will be held as part of the IV International Congress on Digital Transformation (Cibersociedad […]| The Document Foundation Blog
The complexity of the OOXML format is linked to its design and was deliberately created to make the format more difficult for non-Microsoft software developers to implement. Compatibility issues are caused by a veritable “maze” of tags used even for the simplest content, which binds users to the Microsoft ecosystem in the first example of […]| The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice strives to be accessible for people with special needs or limitations, such as visual impairment or limited motor abilities. How does the software work towards this? What accessibility features are in the pipeline? And how can all users help out? We talk to Michael Weghorn about these topics – and more. (This episode is […]| The Document Foundation Blog
Like we’re seeing in Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark and many other government bodies and organisations, the Austrian military (Bundesheer) has migrated 16,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. As Heise reports, the main reasons behind the switch are to: strengthen digital sovereignty maintain independence of IT infrastructure ensure that data is processed in-house The initial plan to […]| The Document Foundation Blog
Fifteen years ago, we announced our ambitious plan to provide the world with a fully free and open office suite created by and for the community. Today, we are celebrating 15 years of LibreOffice — a milestone not only for the software itself, but also for the global movement that it represents. LibreOffice was born […]| The Document Foundation Blog
The post, published on 18 July 2025, which explained why an artificially complex XML schema, such as that used by Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office) files, is in fact a subtle tool for locking in users because it is invisible and impossible to detect without in-depth study, was picked up by various IT media outlets. […]| The Document Foundation Blog
Updates from the Nepalese LibreOffice community: Recent protests and stress in Nepal have disrupted regular activities. Almost everything was affected, including in-person events being canceled rapidly. For open source software users, Software Freedom Day 2025 was a big celebration. But many felt disillusioned about the event. Despite all this, our community members in Nepal tuned […]| The Document Foundation Blog
Today we’re talking to Devansh Varshney, who added histogram chart support to LibreOffice and is working on improvements to the Basic IDE… Tell us a bit about yourself! I am from Mathura in India, one of the historical cities where the first image of Buddha was carved during the Kushan Empire, Jain Tirthankar Neminatha’s birthplace […]| The Document Foundation Blog
En una decisión histórica, las Fuerzas Armadas de Austria han decidido abandonar Microsoft Office y migrar a LibreOffice, la suite ofimática de código abierto. La noticia fue publicada por el portal internacional ZDNet y llama la atención por tratarse …| Blog de LibreOffice Hispano
Octavio Álvarez, con su charla «LibreOffice Bibisect for Beginners», la cual fue impartida en Budapest durante la Conferencia de LibreOffice 2025, nos ayuda a entender la técnica de la bibisección para ayudar a depurar el código de LibreOffice.| Blog de LibreOffice Hispano
We’re gathered together at the LibreOffice Conference 2025 in Budapest. A big thanks to the organisers! Here’s the group photo we took this afternoon. Of course, this is just one part of the wider LibreOffice community, made of hundreds of people. Join them!| The Document Foundation Blog
2025年8月29日ベルリン – 個人の生産性向上のための、ボランティアコミュニティによって支えられる自由なオフィススイートであるLibreOfficeの25.8系最初のマイナーリリースLibreOffice 25.8.1が、Windows、MacOS、Linux向けに利用可能になりました。 https://ja.libreoffice.org/download このリリースには、LibreOffice 25.8 [1] に対して約100件のバグおよびリグレッション修正が含まれており、...| LibreOffice日本語チームBlog
Berlin, 29 August 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.1, the first minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available at https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows, MacOS and Linux. The release includes close to 100 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 25.8 [1] to improve the stability and robustness of the […]| The Document Foundation Blog
Gerade in diesen Zeiten, wo es wichtig ist, seine digitale Souveränität zu verteidigen, macht für diejenigen, die nicht auf ein Office-Paket verzichten können (weil – aus welchen Gründen auch immer – zu Beispiel LaTEX keine Alternative ist), ein Umstieg auf LibreOffice Sinn. Denn hinter LibreOffice steht keine US-amerikanische Firma, sondern die Document Foundation, eine gemeinnützige Stiftung nach deutschem Recht. Vor wenigen Tagen wurde von LibreOffice in neues Update freigegeben....| Der Schockwellenreiter
Berlín, 29 de agosto de 2025. LibreOffice 25.8.1, la primera corrección del paquete ofimático gratuito y apoyado por voluntarios para la productividad personal en entornos de oficina, ya está disponible en https://es.libreoffice.org para Windows, MacOS y Linux. La versión incluye alrededor de 100 correcciones de errores y regresiones con respecto a LibreOffice 25.8 [1] para […]| Blog de LibreOffice Hispano
Eduardo, hijo de Juan Carlos, no ha hecho saber que el pasado 22 de agosto su padre falleció como consecuencia de la enfermedad con la que llevaba varios años luchando. Juan Carlos había estado colaborando voluntariamente con la comunidad desde la época de OpenOffice.org. Lo recordamos con la frase que lo motivó a sumar su […]| Blog de LibreOffice Hispano
Visión general En un momento en el que las tensiones geopolíticas, las leyes de localización de datos y los riesgos de cumplimiento normativo están transformando el panorama de las tecnologías de la información, LibreOffice 25.8 (lanzado la semana …| Blog de LibreOffice Hispano
LibreOffice no incluye inteligencia artificial (IA) de serie. Sin embargo, muchos usuarios desean contar con esas funciones, por lo que animamos a los desarrolladores a que las ofrezcan como extensiones opcionales. Y eso es lo que ha hecho Igor Támara, …| Blog de LibreOffice Hispano
En el mundo digital, los formatos de documentos son esenciales. Los formatos privativos, como DOCX de Microsoft Word o XLSX de Excel, dominan el lugar de trabajo, pero al mismo tiempo obligan a los usuarios a utilizar un proveedor específico …| Blog de LibreOffice Hispano
LibreOffice 24.8 ha llegado al final de su vida útil, por lo que todos los usuarios deben actualizar su suite ofimática gratuita a la última versión. Berlín, 17 de julio de 2025 – The Document Foundation anuncia el lanzamiento de …| Blog de LibreOffice Hispano
The Document Foundation ha anunciado la llegada de LibreOffice 25.8, la nueva versión de la suite ofimática de código abierto más utilizada del mundo. Este lanzamiento refuerza el compromiso del proyecto con la soberanía digital, la privacidad de los usuarios y la interoperabilidad con Microsoft Office, al mismo tiempo que ofrece un notable salto en […]| Redes Sociales
最高のオープンソースオフィススイートは、プライバシーとデジタル主権を重視しながら進化を続けています。 2025年8月20日 ベルリン ― The Document Foundation は、LibreOffice 25.8のリリースを発表しました。市場をリードする自由なオープンソースのオフィススイートの最新版は、デジタル主権とプライバシー保護に焦点を当て続けています。これにより、個人、組織、政府...| LibreOffice日本語チームBlog
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8. This latest version of the market-leading free open source office suite maintains its focus on digital sovereignty and privacy protection. It offers individuals, […]| The Document Foundation Blog
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 July with some very positive news: a Danish Ministry is switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice. The goal is to “create more competition and innovation – and reduce Denmark’s […]| The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice 24.8は、サポート終了となったため、すべてのユーザーは最新リリースに更新する必要があります。 2025年7月17日 ベルリン ― The Document Foundation は、LibreOffice 25.2ファミリーの5回目のメンテナンスリリースである LibreOffice 25.2.5 のリリースを発表しました。対象プラットフォームは、Windows版（Intel、AMD、ARM）、macOS版（Apple Silicon、Intel）、Linux版です。以下からダウ...| LibreOffice日本語チームBlog
LibreOffice 24.8がサポート終了に近づいているため、フリーオフィススイートを最新リリースにアップデートすることをユーザーの皆様に推奨します。 2025年6月6日 ベルリン ― The Document Foundationは、LibreOffice 25.2ファミリーの4回目のメンテナンスリリースであるLibreOffice 25.2.4のリリースを発表しました。対象プラットフォームは、Windows版（Intel、AMD、ARM）、macOS版（Apple Silico...| LibreOffice日本語チームBlog
2025年5月8日 ベルリン ― 自由なオフィススイートのボランティアサポート版「LibreOffice 24.8」の7番目で最後のマイナーリリースであるLibreOffice 24.8.7がリリースされ、Windows版（Intel、AMDおよびARMプロセッサ）、macOS版（AppleおよびIntelプロセッサ）、Linux版がダウンロード可能になりました。 https://ja.libreoffice.org/download/ LibreOfficeは、ユーザーのプライバシーを尊重する唯一の...| LibreOffice日本語チームBlog
自由で高機能なオフィススイートに安定性の向上と修正を加えた最新のメンテナンスリリース 2025年4月30日 ベルリン – The Document Foundationは、LibreOffice 25.2ファミリーの3番目のメンテナンスリリースであるLibreOffice 25.2.3のリリースを発表しました。対象プラットフォームはWindows（Intel、AMD、ARM）、macOS（Apple SiliconおよびIntel）、Linuxです。現在、https://ja.libreoffice.org/download/ ...| LibreOffice日本語チームBlog
2025年3月27日 ベルリン ― Document Foundationは、「LibreOffice 25.2」ファミリーの2番目のマイナーリリースであるLibreOffice25.2.2と、「LibreOffice 24.8」ファミリーの6番目のマイナーリリースであるLibreOffice 24.8.6をリリースしました。Windows版（Intel、AMDおよびARMプロセッサ）、macOS版（AppleおよびIntelプロセッサ）、Linux版がダウンロード可能になりました。 https://ja.libreoffice.org/download ...| LibreOffice日本語チームBlog
YouTubeとPeerTubeで新機能を紹介する動画が公開されています 2025年2月27日 ベルリン ― 自由なオフィススイートのボランティアサポート版LibreOffice 25.2の最初のマイナーリリース「LibreOffice 25.2.1」のWindows版（Intel、AMDおよびARMプロセッサ）、macOS版（Apple SiliconおよびIntelプロセッサ）、Linux版がダウンロード可能になりました。 https://ja.libreoffice.org/download LibreOfficeは、個々の...| LibreOffice日本語チームBlog
2024年12月19日 ベルリン ― 自由なオフィススイートのボランティアサポート版「LibreOffice 24.8」の4番目のマイナーリリースであるLibreOffice 24.8.4がリリースされ、Windows版（Intel、AMDおよびARMプロセッサ）、macOS版（AppleおよびIntelプロセッサ）、Linux版がダウンロード可能になりました。 https://ja.libreoffice.org/download このリリースには、LibreOffice 24.8.3に対して55以上のバグとリ...| LibreOffice日本語チームBlog
Photo from the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 This is a translation of the Japanese post: The LibreOffice Asia Conference Committee is pleased to invite proposals for talks at the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan, on December 13 (Saturday) and 14 (Sunday), at IIJ Head Office (Iidabashi Grand Bloom). This […]| The Document Foundation Blog
Yesterday I merged a fix for Writer’s tdf#165094. Not that it was something exceptional; something that often happens when we change the huge code: a regression. Something that we try to do for them: a fix. Why mention it here? It happens to show something, that people underestimate. The complexity of what they call “proper… Continue reading How could QA catch this in advance?→| Mike Kaganski's blog
This year’s GSoC is coming; and this year, I suggest that we handle one big problem plaguing LibreOffice: deadlocks. Users know that sometimes, program hangs. Often that is because of deadlocks. It is well known that one of industry’s most widely used ways to handle this problem is Ostrich algorithm [1]. This proposal is to… Continue reading New LibreOffice GSOC project: resolve deadlocks using robust and efficient implementation of Ostrich algorithm→| Mike Kaganski's blog
Thanks to SUSE, our valued partner who supported this development, we at Collabora Productivity have implemented support for multi-column layout in LibreOffice’s text boxes. Up to now, it was only possible to use columns in Writer’s page styles, sections and frames. One could not make text boxes, including those used in Impress, with text distributed… Continue reading Multiple columns in LibreOffice text boxes→| Mike Kaganski's blog
After implementing glow effect recently, we at Collabora Productivity also implemented soft edge effect for objects in Draw and Impress. And again, that was done thanks to SUSE who made it possible. The relevant bug report‘s duplicate contains a sample that I use here for illustration. First, take a look at how it was before:… Continue reading Soft edge effect on objects in LibreOffice→| Mike Kaganski's blog
Thanks to SUSE who made this possible, now we have glow effect on objects in upcoming LibreOffice 7.0. Collabora Productivity engineers Tamás Bunth and myself together have implemented it for shapes and pictures. Below are some screenshots of a PPTX slide with glow samples collected from the relevant bug report: What puzzles me is why… Continue reading Glow effect on objects in LibreOffice→| Mike Kaganski's blog
Since forever, Basic in OpenOffice.org had a bug: it didn’t properly check closing parentheses in expressions like (example taken from this AskLibO question). Note the mismatch between opening and closing parentheses: four opening, and only three closing. The author missed one to close UCase function after Left( sString, 1 ), and any compiler would naturally… Continue reading When Legacy Justifies Errors→| Mike Kaganski's blog
Recently we at Collabora Productivity have made some substantial improvements to XLSX interoperability related to pivot tables, fixing many issues existed in Calc. Personally I have committed these patches: 4a524379548c916d304a71980f6911231768018 – fixes a case when pivot tables exported by LibreOffice were considered broken and discarded by Excel 577b95f4d0cc1cf8836ff35fc30189c64fefb508 – workarounds a standard non-compliance of Excel… Continue reading XLSX interoperability: pivot tabl...| Mike Kaganski's blog
LibreOffice 24.8 has now reached the end of life, so all users have to update their free office suite to the latest release Berlin, 17 July 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.5, the fifth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple Silicon […]| The Document Foundation Blog
This deal unites the largest team of corporate Office engineers to deliver on Collabora Productivity’s mission to restore Digital Sovereignty to its users, while making Open Source Office Rock. It …| allotropia software blog
We’ve added a great new Vue.js-3 ZetaJS demo (source)! It showcases word processing and spreadsheets inside a single web app. Calc is being used as a data source for an HTML app, filling letter tem…| allotropia software blog
This post is about recent improvements for ZetaJS, the JavaScript wrapper library for ZetaOffice’s WebAssembly version of LibreOffice: There is something of a mismatch between the UNO type system and the JavaScript types used by zetajs. For example, JavaScript only has a single number type for both integer and floating point values, while UNO hasContinue reading "Precision-engineering for JavaScript"| allotropia software blog
Hamburg and Bolzano, November 8th, 2024 – During the two-day annual South Tyrol Free Software Conference, allotropia software GmbH today announces beta versions of its new product line “ZetaOffice”. ZetaOffice is a new set of applications, libraries and services, all powered by the LibreOffice Technology stack. Featured among its products is ZetaJS, an innovative browser-basedContinue reading "Announcing ZetaOffice, a new LibreOffice Technology product for web, mobile & desktop"| allotropia software blog
LOWA is LibreOffice built with Emscripten as a Wasm executable that runs in the browser. Controlling that LibreOffice through UNO with JavaScript looks like a natural fit. Enter Embind, a mechanism to generate the binding glue between JavaScript and Wasm/C++. As we will see, the Embind vs. UNO match is not perfect, but it kind-ofContinue reading "LibreOffice, JavaScript’ed"| allotropia software blog
Numbering and bullet list are a core feature of every word processing application, and naturally LibreOffice Writer has gazillion options in that area. Of course, Writer can also handle multilevel lists: Now, how are these lists stored in ODF? Each level defines a num-prefix (what will be written before numbering), a num-suffix (same as prefix,Continue reading "Improving LibreOffice’s list numbering feature"| allotropia software blog
Thanks to a tender by The Document Foundation, we have been able to implement a new and much improved curl-based HTTP/WebDAV UCP for LibreOffice 7.3. This is the technology that sits under almost every public network file access LibreOffice can do, like loading and saving from a NextCloud instance, or working on a file sittingContinue reading "Improving LibreOffice’s network file access"| allotropia software blog
Munich, October 28th, 2021 – with allotropia software providing the engineering, CIB software, the innovation leader for digitization, process automation and document management with AI, today updates its LibreOffice powered by CIB product range to version 6.4 LTS. This update contains a complete desktop productivity solution for companies and organizations of all sizes to deployContinue reading "LibreOffice powered by CIB releases new, updated LTS version"| allotropia software blog
Earlier this year, allotropia software GmbH was awarded a tender to fix a number of problems around the master document feature (Tender to implement master document fixes (#202106-02)) by The Document Foundation (TDF). We have finished implementing the necessary changes, and all fixes will be available for testing in LibreOffice 7.2.2. Using master documents isContinue reading "LibreOffice Master Document Fixes"| allotropia software blog
The new major release provides a wealth of new features, plus a large number of interoperability improvements Berlin, 22 August 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8, the new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux is available from our download page. This is the […]| The Document Foundation Blog
La serie #ELRPUB si conclude con una simpatica intervista con Francesco Leonetti, esperto di editoria digitale scolastica. Gli argomenti trattati in questa serie, vertono in questa intervista per …| electronicliteraturereview