Today we’re at the Linux-InfoDay 2025 in Augsburg, southern Germany! If you’re in the area, pop by for a chat and grab some LibreOffice merchandise 😊 Continue reading at the publisher's website.

In 2024, LibreOffice celebrated its fourteenth 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 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) LibreOffice 24.2 On January 31, LibreOffice 24.2 […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.

The Document Foundation is the non-profit entity that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community. In 2024 we had with elections for the foundation’s Membership Committee, along with regular Advisory Board calls, and support for other projects and activities (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Petr Valach from the Czech LibreOffice community tells us about feedback from the LibreOffice booth at this event… InstallFest is a well­‑established yet relatively small open­‑source conference held annually in the Czech Republic, traditionally at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering building at Karlovo náměstí in Prague. Personally, I prefer these more intimate spaces over the larger venues […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.

For this year’s LibreOffice Conference we had two location proposals: Luxembourg and Budapest. Members of The Document Foundation voted to choose the final location, and we can announce that Budapest is the winner. Currently, the expected date for the conference is September 1 – 5, but this is still subject to change. We will confirm […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.

On March 26, we celebrated Document Freedom Day. Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, gave an online talk about the importance of open standards and free software: 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 […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.

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 posting some extra videos from the open source tracks of the LibreOffice Conference 2024 in Luxembourg. Check them out! Then we announced that LibreOffice is taking […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.

(Translated from the Spanish original.) Juan C. Sanz writes: The Firebird database is distinguished by its unique features within the LibreOffice Base compatible database ecosystem. Why do I consider Firebird to be special? Because it is the only database engine that supports all possible forms of connection in Base and also allows the creation of […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.