The first user research survey for LibreOffice has just been closed. About 5400 participants exceeded our hopes and expectations by far. A big THANK YOU to everyone who participated! This success shows us that the LibreOffice users are more than interested in giving feedback. They want to take part in the further improvement of LibreOffice. [...]

Florian Effenberger recently posted statistics of the number of developers contributing to the LibreOffice project. Several months ago, Cedric Bosdonnat offered data on the number of contribution and contributors from the various sources. While Effenberger’s post provides much less detail, it still provides a glimpse into the composition of the growing community. According to commit [...]

The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced the release of version 3.4.2 of the open source LibreOffice office suite. According to TDF Steering Committee member Italo Vignoli, the third release in the 3.4.x branch of LibreOffice is now ready for both individuals and enterprises; version 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 were aimed at power users and early adopters, [...]

With this blog post, we’d like to share the status on our efforts to establish The Document Foundation as legal entity inside Germany. Thanks to the invaluable work of our lawyer, we now finally have a close-to-final draft of the legally binding statutes. The creation of these took a lot of time, because many of [...]

The Internet, July 1, 2011 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 3.4.1, the second version of the newer 3.4 family, targeting both private individuals and enterprises. LibreOffice 3.4.1 fixes several bugs that affected the previous version, and can be safely deployed for production needs by most users. LibreOffice 3.4.1 can be downloaded [...]

The Document Foundation announces the availability of LibreOffice 3.3.3, a new release of the most stable version of the free office suite for personal productivity, targeting corporate users. LibreOffice 3.3.3 is already available for download at the following address: http://www.libreoffice.org/download. According to Thorsten Behrens, a developer and member of the TDF Steering Committee, “LibreOffice 3.3.3 [...]

LibreOffice 3.4, the second major release form The document Foundation, has been released today with many new features and fixes. Most notable of which are improved integration with GTK+ themes and improved text rendering. New Features and Fixes in this Release Redesigned Move/Copy Sheet dialog Improved HTML export with an image thumbnail gallery of the [...]

The Document Foundation constitutes a global team of hundreds of developers working together to improve the LibreOffice product for the benefit of all users. We are governed by an open, and meritocratic community headed by a diverse interim Steering Committee, and a vendor neutral Engineering Steering Committee overseeing development. Today we welcome Oracle’s donation of [...]

The LibreOffice developers at the Document Foundation have, for the last time, published an announcement on their main mailing list of a new beta version of LibreOffice. In future, beta releases and release candidates will only be announced on developer mailing lists and the announcements mailing list will only carry news of final and stable [...]

Dear Community, The Document Foundation is happy to announce the third beta release of LibreOffice 3.4. The upcoming 3.4 will be the second major release of the LibreOffice project, and comes with many exciting new features. Please be aware that LibreOffice 3.4 Beta3 is not yet ready for production use, you should continue to use [...]

The Document Foundation maintains its release schedule thanks to a growing and vibrant community of developers The Internet, March 22, 2011 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.3.2, the second micro release of the free office suite for personal productivity, which further improves the stability of the software and sets the platform for the next [...]

The Document Foundation announced their intention of becoming a legal non-profit foundation to allow it to accept donations and financial assistance as well as pay employees and rent without having to suffer the tax liabilities levied upon businesses. Since startup capital is required, they began asking for donations to reach their goal. And so far, [...]