Statement about Oracle’s move to donate OpenOffice.org assets to the Apache Foundation

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 [...]

LibreOffice clarifies version numbering

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 [...]

LibreOffice 3.4 Beta 3 available

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 [...]

LibreOffice 3.3.2 is now available

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 [...]

LibreOffice Raises 10000 Euros for Foundation in One Day

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, [...]

LibreOffice VS Openoffice

When a group of German coders at OpenOffice (belonging to database major, Oracle) finally forked away on Sept28th 2010 there was much for everybody to talk about while Oracle OpenOffice maintained dignified silence. The tussle between a David and Goliath has always been fascinating to watch and the breaking away and regeneration of the minnow [...]

Announcing LibreOffice Portable, a Full-Featured Office Suite For USB, Removable and Cloud Drives

Announcing LibreOffice Portable, a Full-Featured Office Suite For USB, Removable and Cloud Drives PortableApps.com and The Document Foundation are proud to announce the immediate availability of LibreOffice Portable 3.3, a portable version of the free productivity suite for Windows. LibreOffice Portable runs right from a USB flash drive or cloud drive and allows users to [...]