The Document Foundation Planet

Thursday
27 March, 2025

[en] Official TDF Blog: Announcement of LibreOffice 25.2.2 and LibreOffice 24.8.6

@ 13:27 UTC

Berlin, 27 March 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the availability of LibreOffice 25.2.2, the second minor release of the recently announced LibreOffice 25.2 family [1], and LibreOffice 24.8.6, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family [2], for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux. LibreOffice is the best office suite for users who want to retain control over their individual software and documents, thereby protecting their privacy and digital life from the commercial interference and the lock-in strategies of Big Tech. All LibreOffice releases can be downloaded from www.libreoffice.org/download/.

What makes LibreOffice unique is the LibreOffice Technology Platform, the only one on the market that allows the consistent development of desktop, mobile and cloud versions – including those provided by companies in the ecosystem – capable of producing identical and fully interoperable documents based on the two available ISO standards: the open ODF or Open Document Format (ODT, ODS and ODP) and the proprietary Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX). The latter hides a huge number of artificial (and unnecessary) lock-in complexities that create problems for users convinced they are using a standard format. Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for all major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners – for desktop, mobile and cloud – with a wide range of dedicated value-added features and other benefits such as SLAs and backports of security patches for several years: www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

English manuals for LibreOffice 25.2 and LibreOffice 24.8.6 can be downloaded from books.libreoffice.org/en/. End users can get first-level technical support from volunteers on the user mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website: ask.libreoffice.org.

Download LibreOffice

Both LibreOffice 25.2.2 and LibreOffice 24.8.6 are immediately available from www.libreoffice.org/download/. LibreOffice 25.2.2 is targeted at power and tech-savvy users, while LibreOffice 24.8.6 is targeted to users who don’t need the latest features and prefer a version that has undergone more testing and bug and regression fixes.

LibreOffice is the only office suite designed to meet the actual needs of the user – not just their eyes. It offers a range of interface options to suit different user habits, from traditional to modern, and makes the most of different screen sizes, optimising the space available to put the maximum number of features just a click or two away. It is also the only software for creating documents (that may contain personal or confidential information) that respects the user’s privacy, ensuring that the user can decide if and with whom to share the content they create, thanks to the standard and open format that is not used as a lock-in tool, forcing periodic software updates. All this with a feature set that is comparable to …

Sunday
23 March, 2025

[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: LibreOffice Base y Firebird, una relación especial

@ 18:06 UTC

La base de datos Firebird se distingue por sus características únicas dentro del ecosistema de bases de datos compatibles con LibreOffice Base.

¿Por qué considero que Firebird es especial? Porque es el único motor de bases de datos que admite …

Friday
21 March, 2025

[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: V Congreso Latinoamericano de LibreOffice de Montevideo

@ 12:00 UTC

por Gustavo Pacheco

El V Congreso Latinoamericano de LibreOffice se celebró en Montevideo, Uruguay, los días 5 y 6 de diciembre de 2024, en el Espacio Colabora de la Intendencia de Montevideo. Este evento reunió a miembros de la comunidad …

Thursday
13 March, 2025

[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: Las descargas de LibreOffice se disparan con el rechazo a la nube y los modelos de suscripción como principales estímulos

@ 21:15 UTC

Ha pasado poco más de un mes desde que se lanzó LibreOffice 25.2, la nueva versión de la suite ofimática de código abierto, y la recepción no podía ser mejor: más de un millón de descargas semanales está teniendo la …

Monday
10 March, 2025

[en] LibreOffice QA Blog: QA/Dev Report: February 2025

@ 12:21 UTC

General Activities

LibreOffice 25.2.0 was announced on Feb 6. Three weeks later, LibreOffice 25.2.1 was announced on Feb, 27
LibreOffice 24.8.5 was announced on Feb 20
Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the descriptions of new Calc functions shown in the UI, added a Help button to the Data Provider dialog, added help pages for new Calc functions CHOOSECOLS(), CHOOSEROWS(), VSTACK() and HSTACK(), added a help page for Calc’s Data Provider and improved help for Paste Special as well as labels and business cards
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on PDF 2.0 support and refactored graphics and animation handling code in VCL toolkit
Miklós Vajna, Rashesh Padia, Darshan Upadhyay, Gökay Şatır, Attila Szűcs, Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Szymon also improved the user experience of the Currency dropdown by removing the need to click an OK button

Andras Timar (Collabora) fixed an issue with importing WEEKNUM() functions from XLSX files, made Excel style cell reference syntax be respected in non-English UIs and made it so in read-only documents one can’t invoke the Search and Replace dialog, reset cell attributes or fill down cells
Xisco Faulí (TDF) implemented new Calc functions CHOOSECOLS(), VSTACK() and HSTACK(), made UNIQUE() case-insensitive like its counterpart in Excel, added a couple of dozen automated tests, upgraded many dependencies and fixed a crash
Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed rendering of overlapping tracked formatting and deletions in imported DOCX files, fixed losing tracked changes when paragraph has a frame anchored to it, fixed truncation of tables in sections split across pages and improved compatibility with MS Word in the case of hidden text
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed an issue with the Alt+X Unicode conversion command when following a combining character, fixed Calc’s INFO() function giving unexpected results with some arguments, made BASIC’s Shell() function more robust and implemented a compatibility option for MS Word’s “Underline Trailing Spaces”. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed sheet identifiers going out of sync sometimes with XLSX export, fixed crashes, fixed many issues found by static analysers and did code cleanups and optimisations
Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on the WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and did code cleanups
Noel Grandin (Collabora) made it faster to load and display XLS and XLSX files with lots of conditional formatting. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations, especially in the area of graphics handling
Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed an Excel compatibility issue with frozen cell zones, fixed unwanted empty paragraphs appearing in headings in DOCX files, fixed tabstops missing from paragraph styles in DOC import and made DOCX metadata compatible with MS Word (Word deviates from the OOXML specification in this area)
Michael Weghorn (TDF) continued cleaning up and reorganising accessibility-related code, made Sidebar, Quick Find and editable comboboxes more accessible, fixed a visual glitch when resizing the window in certain cases affecting …

Thursday
06 March, 2025

[en] = allotropia: ZetaJS: Combining Writer & Calc

@ 10:30 UTC

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 templates in Writer. You can even upload custom data spreadsheets or document templates! And have you seen the nice Writer toolbar, all done with Vue.js?

We’ve also updated the existing demos, showcasing Chrome PWA support with the Ping Monitor demo – just click the little install button at the top-right of the address bar, to get the Ping Monitor “installed” on your desktop!

new demo combining Writer, Calc and the complete toolbar

Talks

Meanwhile, our team was giving some great talks about our work for ZetaOffice and LibreOffice. Why not check out the recordings during your lunch break?

ZetaJS & ZetaOffice

FOSDEM LibreOffice DevRoom talks

News clippings

Look, we made some headlines! TheRegister was following up some earlier coverage about the WebAssembly port, after Thorsten gave Liam a demo during FOSDEM. Read up the full article here.

Next up

In case you’re around, meet us in two weeks at the FOSSAsia Summit in Bangkok, where Sarper Akdemir will give an update over our work. Dates are March 13-15.

If you’re based in Europe, you might instead enjoy Thorsten’s talk at the Chemnitz Linux Days (Germany) from March 22-23.

Looking forward to meet you there!

Feedback appreciated!

Please subscribe to our Newsletter or on Mastodon and let us know how you liked ZetaJS and the demos! If you’re playing with the code leave a star at the ZetaJS repo or if you hit any issues please file a report on GitHub.

Or just leave a comment and let us know directly – thanks for reading!

Monday
03 March, 2025

[en] LibreOffice Design Blog: New Templates For You – Your Feedback Matters!

@ 13:33 UTC

By Ndidi Folasade Ogboi

For the past two months, I’ve been working on adding more templates to LibreOffice Writer as part of my Outreachy project. My goal has been to create functional templates that users need the most.

I created these templates based on what you told us in our survey and your response was incredible!…

Thursday
27 February, 2025

[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: Lanzamiento de LibreOffice 25.2.1

@ 20:49 UTC

Berlín, 27 de febrero de 2025 – LibreOffice 25.2.1, la primera actualización de la nueva suite ofimática LibreOffice 25.2 para Windows (Intel, AMD y ARM), macOS (Apple Silicon e Intel) y Linux está disponible para su descarga desde nuestro sitio …

Wednesday
26 February, 2025

[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: Día de la Libertad Documental @ LibreOffice

@ 23:03 UTC

Dentro de un mes, el 26 de marzo, celebraremos el Día de Libertad Documental 2025. Por primera vez en mucho tiempo, el proyecto LibreOffice desempeñará un papel destacado en la organización del evento.

Durante el día, hablaremos principalmente del Formato …

[en] Marius Popa Adrian: Firebird 5.0.2 minor release is available

@ 10:57 UTC

Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 5.0.2 — the latest minor release in the Firebird 5.0 series.This minor release offers bug fixes as well as a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes.Binary kits for Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android platforms are immediately available for download.

Monday
17 February, 2025

[en] LibreOffice Dev Blog: Understanding the existing code to provide better patches

@ 10:17 UTC

LibreOffice inherits a gigantic code base from its ancestors, StarOffice and OpenOffice. Here I discuss some notes for the newcomers on how to better understand the existing LibreOffice code, and improve the patches.

Studying the Existing Code

As said, LibreOffice is a huge code base, containing ~10 million lines of mostly C++ code. There are different assumptions, conventions and coding styles across ~200 modules that LibreOffice has.

Therefore, it is important to first, study the existing code, through reading and debugging LibreOffice source code, to understand the things that it does, and the way you can implement your ideas, including bug fixes and adding new features.

And although implementing some ideas seem to be straightforward at first sight, it is meaningful to study the details.

Quality Assurance Point of View

First of all, you should understand the thing that you want to implement. No matter if it is a bug, a new feature, or just an EasyHack, you should understand what is requested, what works and what does not work. This requires careful reading of the Bugzilla pages.

User Point of View

Then, you should try to run LibreOffice to understand the exact place in the application where you want to change. LibreOffice user interface has thousands of dialog boxes, so you need to make sure that you understand the thing that you want to do.

Developer Point of View

And at last, you get into implementing something in the code. Here are some questions that you can ask yourself about the details, when reading the existing code:

Why this statement is here, in the first place? (detail-oriented view)
- You can use git blame to see the last author of a specific line
- You can use git log to study the details by knowing the commit hash
- What can this part of code actually does?
- Can I see its effect?

git log

Or, you may be interested in the code behavior in the big picture:

What does the code do as a whole? (holistic view)
There are many other statements, functions and other constructs in the code. What do they do?
What is the overall goal of the code?
Can I test that in action?

You can do some small changes, before even getting into implementing your idea:

What happens if I remove it? (small changes)
Does the removal prevent the code from working?
Is it incomplete, or does it actually do something useful, which
will be absent if I remove it?

Then, you can work on the actual implementation. Ask yourself:

How can I implement the idea in its simplest form? (straightforward change)
Does it have side effects?
How can I make sure every thing else works as before?
How can I write a test for it?

After understanding some of the basic details about the way things work, you may go into improving your implementation.

How can I make it better? (sophisticated change)
Can I make the code more robust where it is brittle?
Can I complete the …

Tuesday
11 February, 2025

[en] LibreOffice QA Blog: QA/Dev Report: January 2025

@ 16:18 UTC

General Activities

Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for new Calc functions TOROW(), TOCOL(), WRAPROWS(), WRAPCOLS(), EXPAND(), TAKE() and DROP(), added dark mode support to the help interface, improved help for PDF/UA, did cleanups in the Xapian-based search in online help, added help for tables styles in Writer and improved help related to printing
Dione Maddern added a help page for Cell Appearance Sidebar deck
Stanislav Horáček did some cleanups in help
Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) added a detailed list of allowed PDF password characters into help and improved the developer tools for finding unneeded includes and UI strings that might need to be translatable
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on PDF 2.0 support and document themes and fixed an Excel compatibility issue with empty values of defined names
Miklós Vajna, Andras Timar, Henry Castro, Gökay Şatır, Attila Szűcs, Szymon Kłos and Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
Xisco Faulí (TDF) implemented new Calc functions, TOCOL, TOROW, WRAPCOLS, WRAPROWS, TAKE, DROP, EXPAND and CHOOSEROWS, added support for setuptools and pip in Python scripting, upgraded many dependencies, added some unit tests and did many code stability improvements
Michael Stahl (allotropia) continued improving the correctness of HTML import regarding formatting and fixed issues with table splitting in Writer’s layout
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed an issue with opening newly-created database forms, fixed Basic isNumeric() function giving incorrect results, fixed an installation issue affecting Active Directory setups on Windows, fixed issues with allowed characters in file name when exporting as PDF, fixed wrong number of results being reported when going over 1000 while executing Find All in Calc, fixed inability to pass a Date object to an UNO API method, fixed an issue with handling of Variant types in Basic, made handling of conditional formatting with colour conditions more robust when moving columns, made intercepting .uno:Open command work again, fixed a crash related to regular expressions in Basic and made SQL queries handle negative values
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed crashes, fixed many issues found by static analysers and did code cleanups and optimisations
Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on the WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and did code cleanups
Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the speed of inserting rotated images to Writer. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed DOCX import issues with frames before tables getting anchored to a table cell instead of an empty paragraph and missing header properties in page styles
Michael Weghorn (TDF) continued cleaning up and reorganising accessibility-related code, did refactoring in Linux printer code and fixed some crashes. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
Balázs Varga (allotropia) fixed import of cropped vector graphic objects in PPTX files, improved warnings related to allowed characters in the PDF password input dialog, made it possible to show or hide the text in some password dialogs (more to be included), fixed broken cropped SVG …

Thursday
06 February, 2025

[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: LibreOffice 25.2, la única suite ofimática que satisface las necesidades actuales de los usuarios

@ 13:31 UTC

La nueva versión principal ofrece un gran número de mejoras en la interfaz de usuario y la accesibilidad, además de las habituales funciones de interoperabilidad

Berlín, 6 de febrero de 2025 – LibreOffice 25.2, la nueva versión principal de la …

[sl] Slovenski LibreOffice: LibreOffice 25.2, pisarniški paket ki naslavlja današnje potrebe uporabnikov

@ 13:09 UTC

Nova osrednja izdaja ponuja veliko število izboljšav vmesnika in dostopnosti, pa tudi običajnih funkcionalnosti medopravilnosti.

Berlin, 6. februar 2025 – LibreOffice 25.2, nova osrednja izdaja najboljšega odprtokodnega pisarniškega paketa za Windows (Intel, AMD in ARM), macOS (Apple in Intel) in Linux, ki jo podpirajo prostovoljci, je na voljo na naslovu https://sl.libreoffice.org/prenos LibreOffice je najboljši pisarniški paket za tiste uporabnike, ki želijo ohraniti nadzor nad svojimi lastnimi programskimi orodji in dokumenti, da zaščitijo svojo zasebnost in digitalno življenje pred komercialnim vmešavanjem in strategijami povzročanja odvisnosti velikih tehnoloških podjetij.

LibreOffice je edini pisarniški paket, zasnovan na potrebah uporabnika, ne le na pojavni všečnosti. Ponuja številne možnosti vmesnika, ki ustrezajo različnim navadam uporabnikov, od tradicionalnih do sodobnih, in kar najbolje izkorišča zaslone različnih mer, saj optimizira prostor, ki je na voljo na namizju, tako da je čim večje število funkcij le klik ali dva stran. Je tudi edino programje za ustvarjanje dokumentov, ki lahko vsebujejo osebne ali zaupne podatke, a tudi spoštuje zasebnost uporabnikov, s čimer zagotavlja, da se uporabnik lahko odloči, če in s kom je pripravljen deliti vsebino, ki jo je ustvaril, zahvaljujoč standardiziranemu in odprtemu zapisu, ki se ne uporablja kot orodje za povzročanje odvisnosti uporabnikov, ki vsiljuje periodične posodobitve programja. Vse to z naborom funkcionalnosti, primerljivim s tistim vodilnega programja na tržišču in daleč zmogljivejšim od vsega, kar ponujajo preostali tekmeci.

LibreOffice je edinstven zaradi platforme LibreOffice Technology, edine na tržišču, ki omogoča skladen razvoj namiznih, mobilnih in oblačnih različic – tudi tistih, ki jih ponujajo podjetja iz ekosistema – ki lahko izdela identične in povsem združljive dokumente na osnovi dveh obstoječih standardov ISO: odprtem zapisu ODF ali Open Document Format (ODT, ODS in ODP), in lastniški vrsti datotek Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX in PPTX). Slednje v sebi skrivajo mnogo umetne (in nepotrebne) zavezane kompleksnosti, kar lahko povzroča težave uporabnikom, ki so prepričani, da uporabljajo standardiziran zapis.

Končnim uporabnikom je na voljo tudi tehnična pomoč prve ravni prostovoljcev na uporabniških dopisnih seznamih ter spletišču Ask LibreOffice: https://ask.libreoffice.org

Novosti v LibreOffice 25.2

ZASEBNOST

Če je potrjena možnost odstranitve zasebnih podatkov pri shranjevanju, se osebni podatki ne bodo izvozili (imena avtorjev in časovni žigi, trajanje urejanja, ime tiskalnika in njegove nastavitve, predloga dokumenta, avtorji in datumi komentarjev ter sledi sprememb).

OSRČJE / SPLOŠNO

LibreOffice 25.2 lahko bere in zapisuje dokumente v zapisu ODF različice 1.4.
Mnogo izboljšav medopravilnosti z lastniškimi vrstami dokumentov OOXML.
Zdaj lahko samodejno podpisujete dokumente, ko določite privzeto potrdilo.
Windows 7 in 8/8.1 sta opuščeni platformi in podpora zanju bo odstranjena z različico 25.8.
Razširitve in funkcionalnosti, ki se zanašajo na Python, ne delujejo na sistemih Windows 7.

WRITER

Izboljšave upravljanja sprememb dokumentov, še posebej …

Monday
03 February, 2025

[en] Jean Hollis Weber: Calc, Impress, Draw 24.2 guides published

@ 06:19 UTC

Print editions of several LibreOffice 24.2 user guides were published in 2024. You can buy them from Lulu.com. Free PDFs, as always, are available from the LibreOffice website.

Calc (May 2024)
Impress (July 2024)
Draw (August 2024)
Writer (March 2024)

Thursday
30 January, 2025

[en] LibreOffice Dev Blog: Custom message boxes using VCL Weld

@ 15:01 UTC

When you want to interact with users, sometimes simple dialog boxes are sufficient: a simple yes or no, or some info box. But in other cases, you may need more complex message boxes. Here I discuss how to use VCL Weld to create a custom one.

Simple Message Box

You can create a simple message box, using predefined templates like Info box using a code snippet like this:

std::unique_ptr<weld::MessageDialog> xInfoBox(Application::CreateMessageDialog(pParent, VclMessageType::Question, VclButtonsType::YesNo, u"Are you sure?"_ustr));
xInfoBox->run();

And, this is the result, which is very simple, without any title bar:

Yes / No message box

There are other predefined types, which can be used in different scenarios:

enum class VclMessageType
{
    Info,
    Warning,
    Question,
    Error,
    Other
};

But, if you want custom message boxes, you should be using weld mechanism, with its CreateBuilder function.

Custom Message Boxes

Below is the code from the source code sfx2/source/doc/QuerySaveDocument.cxx, which is inside sfx2 (framework) module. This dialog box is accessible across different modules, including Writer, Calc and Draw/Impress.

Let’s look into the code:

short ExecuteQuerySaveDocument(weld::Widget* _pParent, std::u16string_view _rTitle)
{
    ...
    std::unique_ptr<weld::Builder> xBuilder(
        Application::CreateBuilder(_pParent, u"sfx/ui/querysavedialog.ui"_ustr));
    std::unique_ptr<weld::MessageDialog> xQBox(
        xBuilder->weld_message_dialog(u"QuerySaveDialog"_ustr));
    xQBox->set_primary_text(xQBox->get_primary_text().replaceFirst("$(DOC)", _rTitle));
    return xQBox->run();
}

The code is using a UI file, named sfx/ui/querysavedialog.ui to create a message dialog, and then change the title of it.

QuerySaveDialog

If you look into the include file, include/vcl/weld.hxx inside Builder class, you may see functions like weld_… that are suitable to find various different UI elements from the UI, by mentioning the element ID. For example, to find a label with the ID equal to lable_id, you do this:

std::unique_ptr<weld::Label> m_pTextLabel label = m_xBuilder->weld_label(u"label_id"_ustr)

Result

This is the result, when you try to close an unsaved document.

QuerySaveDialog running

Alternative Ways

This is not the only way you can create nice dialog boxes using VCL weld mechanism. There are some predefined message boxes that look nice which use weld mechanism, and are available for use via relevant C++ classes.

An interesting one here, is the QueryDialog, which is created by a factory method design pattern.

It uses a predefined dialog, using cui/uiconfig/ui/querydialog.ui as the UI file, and it contains a nice stock image! You can test it easily, by modifying a LibreOffice example, minweld.

IMPL_LINK_NOARG(TipOfTheDayDialog, OnNextClick, weld::Button&, void)
{
    VclAbstractDialogFactory* pFact = VclAbstractDialogFactory::Create();
    auto pDlg = pFact->CreateQueryDialog(getDialog(), u"Tips"_ustr, u"Tip of the day"_ustr, u"Are you sure you want to see the next tip of the day?"_ustr, false);
    sal_Int32 nResult = pDlg->Execute();
    pDlg->disposeOnce();

    if(nResult == RET_YES)
    {
        ++m_nCounter;
        m_pTextLabel->set_label(u"Here you will see tip of the day #"_ustr
+ OUString::number(m_nCounter) + ".");
    }
}

Assuming that you have a working build of LibreOffice, you can simply run the minweld workbench by invoking …

Wednesday
29 January, 2025

[en] Marius Popa Adrian: Firebird Docker Images Now Under the Firebird Organization

@ 19:11 UTC

We are pleased to announce the successful migration of Firebird Docker images to their new home:https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-dockerThe images are now published on Docker Hub athttps://hub.docker.com/r/firebirdsql/firebirdThanks to Adriano dos Santos Fernandes for his invaluable contributions and improvements throughout this process.

Friday
17 January, 2025

[en] LibreOffice QA Blog: LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 is available for testing

@ 12:52 UTC

LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) the forth and last pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 25.2 RC1, 104 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 55 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation.

In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ).

For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Matrix.

LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test – we appreciate it!

Happy testing!!

…

Thursday
16 January, 2025

[en] LibreOffice Dev Blog: Outlook for the new year 2025

@ 14:29 UTC

Happy new year 2025! I wish a great year for you, and the global LibreOffice community. Now that we are now in 2025, I briefly discuss the year 2024 and outlook for 2024 in the development blog.

LibreOffice Conference 2024, Luxembourg

At The Document Foundation (TDF), our aim is to improve LibreOffice, the leading free/open source office suite that has millions of users around the world. Our work is community-driven, and the software needs your contribution to become better, and work in a way that you like.

My goal here, is to help people understand LibreOffice code easier, and eventually participate in LibreOffice core development to make LibreOffice better for everyone. In 2024, I wrote 22 posts around LibreOffice development in the dev blog (4 of them are unpublished drafts).

Outlook For the New Year

Focus of the development blog for 2025 in this blog will be:

Introducing new EasyHacks
Describing user interface creation with VCL
Explaining LibreOffice architecture
Explaining Python interaction with LibreOffice

I have written about some of these topics in 2024. Therefore, this year I will try to expand the previous writings and provide new articles about them. For example, creating user interfaces using VCL with the help of glade interface designer will be one of important things to discuss.

You can give feedback by writing a comment here, or sending me an email to hossein AT libreoffice DOT org.

We provide mentoring support to those who want to start LibreOffice development. You are welcome to contact me if you need help to build LibreOffice and do some EasyHacks via the above email address. Also, you can always refer to our Getting Involved Wiki page:

TDF Wiki: Getting Involved in LibreOffice Development

Let’s hope a great year for LibreOffice (and the world) in 2025.

Tuesday
14 January, 2025

[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: Guía de Calc 24.8

@ 20:24 UTC

Dione Maddern y el equipo (global) de documentación de LibreOffice se enorgullecen de anunciar la disponibilidad inmediata de Guía de LibreOffice Calc 24.8, una actualización de la Guía de Calc 24.2 existente con las mejoras disponibles en LibreOffice Calc …

Monday
13 January, 2025

[en] Marius Popa Adrian: A sad day for the Firebird Project

@ 13:15 UTC

Helen Borrie, a key figure in the Firebird relational database project and a longtime contributor at IBPhoenix, passed away on January 2, 2025. Her contributions were essential to Firebird’s creation and its development over the past 25 years.Read the rest of the official announcement

[en] Marius Popa Adrian: Jaybird 6.0.0 released

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We're happy to announce the first release of Jaybird 6, Jaybird 6.0.0.

[en] LibreOffice Design Blog: Results from a survey about Writer templates

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By Ndidi Folasade Ogboi

LibreOffice Writer has long been a trusted tool for users worldwide, offering an open-source solution for documents. But what happens when we take a step back and look at the user experience? How do templates fit into the workflows of users, what makes a great template and where do users want LibreOffice writer to improve?…

Thursday
09 January, 2025

[en] LibreOffice QA Blog: QA/Dev Report: December 2024

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General Activities

LibreOffice 24.8.4 was announced on December 19
Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the warning in Help when JavaScript is not active and did many cleanups in help pages
Dione Maddern created a help page for Alignment Sidebar deck
Alain Romedenne improved and updated help for ScriptForge libraries
Bogdan Buzea improved some UI labels, improved help for superordinate object settings and cached spreadsheet formulas and did many code cleanups
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on PDF 2.0 and PDF/A-4 support
Miklós Vajna, Rashesh Padia, Attila Szűcs, Bayram Çiçek, Szymon Kłos, Marco Cecchetti, Pranam Lashkari, Hubert Figuière (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
Xisco Faulí (TDF) worked on crash report analysis tools, upgraded many dependencies and did many code stability improvements
Michael Stahl (allotropia) made style name handling more robust, improved the handling of hidden frames after recent changes and improved the correctness of HTML import regarding formatting
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) added an application-wide Viewer mode where all files are opened in read-only state while all editing tools are disabled, dropped all code specific to Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 while also making use of new possibilities such as handling long Windows paths with wildcards, made the Unix document mailer script future-proof in case the attach parameter is disallowed in mailto URLs, fixed an issue with calculating minimum heights for menus, fixed an issue with the number format being reported incorrectly in Writer tables, fixed an issue with multi-selection in Calc showing an incorrect cell format and preventing change of format, fixed inability to edit doubles in Basic IDE’s Watch window and fixed an issue preventing the use of points for custom image height/width in the PNG export dialog
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) improved dark mode support, fixed crashes and fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers and did code cleanups
Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) fixed an issue with emailing multiline messages on Unix and worked on the MAR updater and WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and did code cleanups
Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved saving time of XLSX files with lots of conditional formatting, improved the speed of processing styles when opening DOCX files and worked alongside Michael Stahl in making style name handling more robust. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed a DOCX compatibilityMode import and export issue, fixed an issue with imported area fill images not being saved with their associated documents, fixed a Calc comment copying crash and fixed an issue with tables of contents in DOCX files misbehaving when the printer list has been disabled
Michael Weghorn (TDF) did a big reorganisation in accessibility-related code to make it easier to work with, continued working with Cambalache developer (UI editing app) and did various accessibility fixes. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
Balázs Varga (allotropia) improved and expanded Writer’s accessibility warnings, fixed saving “Fit height to …

Wednesday
08 January, 2025

[en] Miklos Vajna: Ignoring the paragraph margin at the top of pages in Writer

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Writer has the concept of paragraph margins and page margins, but what happens when you combine the two? It turns out the expectation is that sometimes the top paragraph margin is ignored in this case. We'll see two cases where the behavior of Writer is now improved to better match Word in this regard.

This work is primarily for Collabora Online, but the feature is available in desktop Writer as well.

Motivation¶

As described in a previous bugreport, there was a first problem where Word ignored the top paragraph margin of a document, but Writer did not. A recent bugreport then pointed out that the first implementation went too far and now a wanted top margin was ignored. This lead to a set of conditions which now does a decent emulation of Word's rules in this regard.

Results so far¶

Here is the old Writer render result for a document where the top margin should be ignored:

And here is the new Writer render result for a document where the top margin is ignored:

Finally, the reference render result, showing the ignored top paragraph margin:

As you can see, now the unwanted top paragraph margin is omitted at page top.

How is this implemented?¶

If you would like to know a bit more about how this works, continue reading... :-)

As usual, the high-level problem was addressed by a series of small changes:

Want to start using this?¶

You can get a development edition of Collabora Online 24.04 and try it out yourself right now: try the development edition. Collabora intends to continue supporting and contributing to LibreOffice, the code is merged so we expect all of this work will be available in TDF's next release too (25.2).

Friday
03 January, 2025

[en] LibreOffice QA Blog: LibreOffice 25.2 RC1 is available for testing

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LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1, 175 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 76 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 25.2 RC1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation.

In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ).

For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Matrix.

LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test – we appreciate it!

Happy testing!!

…

Friday
20 December, 2024

[en] LibreOffice Design Blog: LibreOffice Themes will replace the color customization

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Since the first implementation of a dark color theme we continuously improved the customization of LibreOffice. In a GSoC projects this year, Sahil Gautam made it possible to not only change the application colors but also what is defined by the operating system respectively the desktop environment.…

Thursday
19 December, 2024

[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: LibreOffice 24.8.4, optimizado para los usuarios preocupados por la privacidad, está disponible para descarga

@ 13:30 UTC

Berlín, 19 de diciembre de 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8.4, la cuarta corrección de la familia LibreOffice 24.8 de la suite ofimática gratuita de código abierto y respaldada por voluntarios para Windows (Intel, AMD y ARM), MacOS (Apple e Intel) …

Wednesday
18 December, 2024

[en] LibreOffice QA Blog: QA/Dev Report: November 2024

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General Activities

LibreOffice 24.8.3 was announced on November 14
Olivier Hallot (TDF) did big updates to screenshots in Help, added a help page for login/password dialog and improved help pages on Skia, Writer Navigator and Edit – External links in Draw and Impress. He also added extended tips for Style dialog and Skia options
Pierre F. continued reorganising help pages for Calc functions
Dione Maddern added help pages for Number Format and Design Sidebar decks
Alain Romedenne improved help for BASIC’s Mid method and updated help for ScriptForge’s Exception.PythonShell() method
Bogdan Buzea fixed over 50 issues pointed out by PVS-Studio static analyser, did other code cleanups and worked on harmonising the use of date formats in Help to ISO 8601
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) started working on PDF 2.0 and PDF/A-4 support
Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) fixed an issue with fill content of graphic objects being lost upon PPTX export
Bayram Çiçek, Szymon Kłos, Skyler Grey, Vivek Javiya, Marco Cecchetti, Pranam Lashkari, Hubert Figuière and Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Vivek also added a command to remove content control formatting
Julien Nabet did some internal improvements to database code and fixed several issues pointed out by static analysers
Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed 80 issues pointed out by PVS-Studio static analyser, upgraded many dependencies, added a script to check the latest version of external libraries, expanded ODF 1.4 support with help from Regina and did many restructurings in automated tests as well as code cleanups
Michael Stahl (allotropia) made document compression handling more robust, fixed an issue in the WMF export code causing incomplete redactions and did many improvements to hiding elements in Writer
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed a hang related to Windows clipboard, made copying of rich text take font encoding into account, fixed an issue with setting page backgrounds via Java API, made footnote/endnote navigation more robust, made it so nested footnotes in ODF files are ignored instead of causing a read error (support has to be added to ODF spec), made hyphenation code more robust, fixed an issue with certain documents opening as modified and fixed an issue with incorrect OLE object scaling during loading
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed an issue with tabs getting skipped when cycling with Ctrl+PgDn/PgUp in Calc’s Format Cells dialog, fixed crashes and fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers and did code cleanups
Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and did code cleanups
Noel Grandin (Collabora) fixed an issue with Calc’s background colour conditional formatting sometimes missing newly added entries, made it faster to open XLSX files with lots of conditional formatting and made inspection of BASIC macros in the macro editor safer by detecting and skipping the display of very large UNO property values. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed an issue with forms …

Friday
13 December, 2024

[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1 está disponible para pruebas

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LibreOffice 25.2 se lanzará como versión final a principios de febrero de 2025 (Consulte el Plan de Lanzamiento) siendo LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1 el segundo pre-lanzamiento desde que comenzó el desarrollo de la versión 25.2 a mediados de junio de …

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Thursday27 March, 2025

[en] Official TDF Blog: Announcement of LibreOffice 25.2.2 and LibreOffice 24.8.6

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[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: LibreOffice Base y Firebird, una relación especial

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[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: V Congreso Latinoamericano de LibreOffice de Montevideo

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[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: Las descargas de LibreOffice se disparan con el rechazo a la nube y los modelos de suscripción como principales estímulos

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[en] LibreOffice QA Blog: QA/Dev Report: February 2025

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Thursday06 March, 2025

[en] = allotropia: ZetaJS: Combining Writer & Calc

@ 10:30 UTC

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[en] LibreOffice Design Blog: New Templates For You – Your Feedback Matters!

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Thursday27 February, 2025

[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: Lanzamiento de LibreOffice 25.2.1

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Wednesday26 February, 2025

[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: Día de la Libertad Documental @ LibreOffice

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[en] Marius Popa Adrian: Firebird 5.0.2 minor release is available

@ 10:57 UTC

Monday17 February, 2025

[en] LibreOffice Dev Blog: Understanding the existing code to provide better patches

@ 10:17 UTC

Studying the Existing Code

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Tuesday11 February, 2025

[en] LibreOffice QA Blog: QA/Dev Report: January 2025

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Thursday06 February, 2025

[es] Blog de LibreOffice Hispano: LibreOffice 25.2, la única suite ofimática que satisface las necesidades actuales de los usuarios

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[sl] Slovenski LibreOffice: LibreOffice 25.2, pisarniški paket ki naslavlja današnje potrebe uporabnikov

@ 13:09 UTC

Nova osrednja izdaja ponuja veliko število izboljšav vmesnika in dostopnosti, pa tudi običajnih funkcionalnosti medopravilnosti.

Novosti v LibreOffice 25.2

Monday03 February, 2025

[en] Jean Hollis Weber: Calc, Impress, Draw 24.2 guides published

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Thursday30 January, 2025

[en] LibreOffice Dev Blog: Custom message boxes using VCL Weld

@ 15:01 UTC

Simple Message Box

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Wednesday29 January, 2025

[en] Marius Popa Adrian: Firebird Docker Images Now Under the Firebird Organization

@ 19:11 UTC

Friday17 January, 2025

[en] LibreOffice QA Blog: LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 is available for testing

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[en] LibreOffice Dev Blog: Outlook for the new year 2025

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