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Este es nuestro resumen de las novedades, los eventos y las actividades del proyecto LibreOffice durante septiembre. Haz clic en los enlaces para obtener más información… Comenzamos septiembre con una respuesta récord al lanzamiento de LibreOffice 26.8: durante su primera semana, la nueva versión superó el millón de descargas, con
Hay algo que suele pasar desapercibido detrás de cada nueva versión de LibreOffice: antes de llegar a millones de escritorios alrededor del mundo, el software atraviesa un enorme proceso de pruebas. Y, aun así, ningún programa de semejante tamaño puede anticipar todas las combinaciones posibles de sistemas, documentos, configuraciones y
por Italo Vignoli El 28 de septiembre de 2010, un grupo de miembros de la comunidad de OpenOffice.org anunció el lanzamiento del proyecto LibreOffice y de la fundación que lo respaldaría: The Document Foundation. El anuncio generó cierta confusión y escepticismo, así como un enorme entusiasmo entre aquellos miembros de
avtor: Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Danes, 19. septembra, je Dan svobode programske opreme, poseben dan, ki ga skupnost prostega programja vsako leto praznuje tretjo soboto v septembru po vsem svetu.
To je dobra priložnost, da si ogledamo LibreOffice iz perspektive, ki se pogosto jemlje za samoumevno: ne gre za to, kaj programska oprema počne, ampak za to, kaj omogoča uporabnikom in česa jim ne vsiljuje.
Prosta programska oprema je opredeljena s štirimi svoboščinami. LibreOffice jih vse zagotavlja, iz njih pa izhajajo številne druge svoboščine, ki so pomembne za vsakogar, ki piše pismo, pripravlja proračun ali predstavlja projekt.
LibreOffice se razširja pod javnim dovoljenjem Mozilla Public Licence 2.0, ki vsakemu uporabniku zagotavlja štiri svoboščine, ki opredeljujejo prosto programsko opremo:
Dokument pripada njegovemu avtorju le, če format, v katerem je shranjen, ne pripada komu drugemu. LibreOffice kot svoj izvorni format uporablja Open Document Format (ODF): standard ISO/IEC, ki je bil razvit v okviru organizacije OASIS v preglednem in v celoti dokumentiranem postopku, ki ga nobeno posamezno podjetje ne more enostransko nadzorovati ali ga spreminjati.
To pomeni, da bo dokument, danes shranjen v formatu ODF, še čez dvajset let berljiv, bodisi s paketom LibreOffice bodisi z drugo programsko opremo, ki podpira ta standard. Za posameznike je to vprašanje praktičnosti. Za javne organe, ki imajo dolžnost hraniti dokumente in komunicirati z državljani, ne da bi jih prisilili v nakup določene programske opreme, pa je to načelno vprašanje.
LibreOffice ne zbira podatkov o svojem delovanju in od vas ne zahteva, da si ustvarite račun. Dokumenti se ustvarjajo, urejajo in shranjujejo na računalniku uporabnika ter tam ostanejo, razen če se uporabnik ne odloči drugače. Ni obvezne povezave z oblačno storitvijo, na oddaljenem strežniku pa se ne ustvari noben uporabniški profil.
LibreOffice ne prikazuje oglasov in uporabnikov ne poziva k sklenitvi naročnine ali prijavi na premijski paket. Vmesnik je zasnovan za podporo delu uporabnikov, ne pa za prodajo dodatnih storitev.
LibreOffice ne vsebuje nobenih funkcij generativne umetne inteligence. Uporabniki, ki jih potrebujejo, jih lahko dodajo prek razširitev in izberejo, katero storitev bodo uporabljali, vključno z modeli, ki se izvajajo lokalno, medtem ko uporabniki, ki jih ne potrebujejo, ne bodo ničesar zamudili, saj ni ničesar, kar bi lahko zamudili.
General Activities LibreOffice 26.8.0 was announced on August 26 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for Calc’s ARRAYTOTEXT function, the easy conditional formatting feature, saving database queries, the VBA Like operator, added new gutter options to the help page for Page Style dialog, added a mention of autodetection of ISO
If you don't know what is dynamic arrays, then just read this article https://exceljet.net/articles/dynamic-array-formulas-in-excel.
Note, dynamic array's functions like UNIQUE, FILTER, SORT, etc. were already implemented early. But other new general dynamic array features were added to LibreOffice Calc only now into current master that will be 27.2 release in next year.
Let's say big thanks to Collabora's developers for it, because all work was made for Collabora Office and then Xisco Fauli copied all patches to LibreOffice project (The source code license allows it, because it's the same MPL 2.0 on both sides).
You can try the new features using master daily builds for your OS by the link.
Earlier this year we ran a survey about LibreOffice Base. Similar to the questionnaires about LibreOffice Draw (see first and second blog post) and LibreOffice Calc, we asked about use cases, the most important features, the pain points – and what users expect in the future to support development and to gather ideas how the user interface and workflow can be improved. In total, 455 participants completed the questions. Thanks a lot to everyone who took the time!
As usual, the survey is heavily biased. The attendees self-estimate their expertise above the average, run the application more frequently, and show a different distribution in operating system usage compared to regular users.
To start off, we asked what tools they use. We included Spreadsheet Tools to also cover users who do not actually use a database, but think of a spreadsheet as kind of data storage. Participants responding None, obviously not managing any database, got a different follow-up question.
What tools do you use to manage databases?To trigger the idea of the following open questions, we asked about the importance of different features. Unlike the large number of functions in other modules, Base offers queries, reports, forms, tables, etc. which are all essential for the work with databases. Therefore we collected some features that may or may not be relevant for a sub-group or have room for improvements.
How important are these features for you?People understand the question differently, and reply very short or rather verbosely. The answers may point to a professional environment if “payroll information for up to 10000 people” is mentioned, over SME’s processing order management, production count, and shipment status, to obviously private usage. The following attempt to categorize the answers cannot do justice to the variety of all replies:
For example:
“I use it mostly as place to store sensitive customers data. But since I have small quantities of information, I switched to LibreOffice Calc, which files can be also locked with the password.”
“Smaller business applications in the freight forwarding and logistics sectors, such as fleet management, warehouse management, category management, and invoicing.”
“Managing geospatial information with PostgreSQL/PostGIS and creating reports with the information from the attribute table using LibreOffice Base/Writer.”
“Storing data when it gets too big/slow for a CSV file for personal or internal work (engineering) projects.”
The majority asks for improvements to the user interface with less clutter and a more attractive design. The workflow and user experience should become either simplified or more powerful, depending on the expertise and the scenario …
The NotebookBar (NBB) or tabbed interface is an alternative user interface for LibreOffice. In the second part of this series, I explain the way the NotebookBar takes icons and text to create the final output that you see on the screen.
Currently, the NotebookBar is not exactly like the other UI files that in LibreOffice with weld mechanism. In the first part of the series of blog posts on this topic, I discussed the custom widgets in notebookbars and how to edit them using Glade.
The custom widgets rely on C++ code, especially for sizing and other characteristics. For example, Priority Merged Horizontal Box (sfxlo-PriorityMergedHBox) is a “horizontal box hiding children depending on its priorities”. It needs C++ code to implement the priority display of the children. If you search for it in C++ files, you will reach builder.cxx:
$ git grep -l sfxlo-PriorityMergedHBox "*.cxx" vcl/source/window/builder.cxx
The above file is a huge > 100 KB C++ source code that handles NotebookBar custom widgets, but also handles every other VCL widget.
The other parts of the relevant code for the NotebookBar resides in below files. Search for both “Notebookbar” and “notebookbar” in C++ files:
$ git ls-files "*otebook*cxx" sfx2/source/notebookbar/NotebookbarTabControl.cxx sfx2/source/notebookbar/SfxNotebookBar.cxx vcl/qt5/QtInstanceNotebook.cxx vcl/qt6/QtInstanceNotebook.cxx vcl/source/control/NotebookbarPopup.cxx vcl/source/control/notebookbar.cxx vcl/source/window/NotebookBarAddonsMerger.cxx
If you open the NotebookBar UI for LibreOffice Writer or other components like Calc, etc., what you see lacks two important things: icons and text.
Notebookbar widgetsFirst, let’s look into icons. The icon files come from the set of icon themes that are available with LibreOffice. The icon theme of LibreOffice is configurable, therefore you do not see some specific LibreOffice icon in the design. That makes the work of UI designers harder, but lets LibreOffice choose among different icon themes.
You may find more information in the icon-themes/ module README.md file, which describes how to create new icon themes, and how to link the icons to specific icons via .xcu files. For example, in officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/UI/CalcCommands.xcu you see:
<node oor:name=".uno:OpenFromCalc" oor:op="replace">
<prop oor:name="Label" oor:type="xs:string">
<value xml:lang="en-US">~Open...</value>
</prop>
<prop oor:name="Properties" oor:type="xs:int">
<value>1</value>
</prop>
</node>
This is defined for the UNO dispatch command, .uno:OpenFromCalc, which opens a file for Calc. The complete list of UNO dispatch commands is available here:
For each command, two icon sizes are created, one small and one big icon. lc_<command name>.png and sc_<command name>.png, if not in SVG format. At first, one should add the icons for a new command to the colibre theme, in order to be usable also with other themes.
Here, the filenames will be lc_openfromcalc.png and sc_openfromcalc.png, which are available …
Berlin, 26. avgust 2026 – TDF (The Document Foundation) danes objavlja izid LibreOffice 26.8, nove osrednje izdaje brezplačnega in odprto-kodnega pisarniškega paketa, ki je takoj na voljo za Windows, macOS in Linux v več kot 120 jezikih. Izdaja je delo 206 sodelavcev, od katerih jih je 155 prostovoljcev.
LibreOffice 26.8 se osredotoča na tri področja: tipografsko kakovost tega, kar s paketom ustvarite, nabor sistemov pisanja, ki jih pravilno obvladuje, in zvestobo, s katero dokumenti preživijo izmenjavo z drugimi pisarniškimi paketi.
Semantika poravnave je bila ustrezno spremenjena: novi dokumenti imajo privzeto poravnavo na začetek in ne levo, spreminjanje smeri odstavka pa ne odraža več eksplicitno levo ali desno poravnanih odstavkov.
Program Math je pridobil poimenovane funkcije in operatorje za pisavi N'Ko in Adlam, ki se uporabljata za mandejske jezike v Zahodni Afriki in za fulanski jezik, skupaj z levo usmerjenimi vektorji in harpunami za formule od desne proti levi. Možnost besedilne mreže CJK je bila preimenovana, da odraža njeno dejansko funkcijo, in sicer omogoča mrežo rokopisa genkō yōshi. Imena pisav, zabeležena v jezikih, ki niso tudi jezik vmesnika, so zdaj razrešena, zato se dokumenti, napisani drugje, prikažejo v pisavah, ki so jih izbrali njihovi avtorji.
Nič od tega opravljenega dela nima tržnega učinka. Prizadeti jeziki predstavljajo majhne trge ali pa sploh nobenega. Vključeno je, ker pisarniški paket, ki služi le jezikom s kupno močjo, ni infrastruktura, temveč izdelek.
Program Writer uvaja sestavljalnik odstavkov, algoritem postavitve, ki uravnava razmik med besedami po celotnem odstavku, namesto da bi optimiziral vsako vrstico posebej. Enovrstični, pohlepni pristop, ki ga uporabljajo urejevalniki besedil, je standarden že od uvedbe tehnologije in ustvarja poravnano besedilo, v katerem se izmenjujejo prenatrpane in redke vrstice, kjer koli se dolge besede približajo prelomu.
Različice tipografij OpenType so zdaj izvorno podprte, kar omogoča rabo spremenljivih pisav, kot so bile zasnovane, vključno z osmi, ki prilagajajo kontrast in razmerje črk velikosti, na katero je besedilo nastavljeno.
Poravnava mreže osnovnic zdaj deluje pravilno za besedilo znotraj okvirjev, mrežo pa je mogoče prikazati med urejanjem z nastavljivo barvo.
LibreOffice Chart zagotavlja osnovno podporo za krožno pot za novejše vrste grafikonov, ki jih Microsoft Office zapisuje v datoteke OOXML: grafikon kvartilov, lijaki, razvrščeni histogram (pareto), sončni izbruh, drevesni grafikon …
General Activities LibreOffice 26.2.5 was announced on July 23 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for many new Calc functions and for matrix input dialog in Math and improved help for regular expressions Alain Romedenne added help for the Python modules scriptforge, msgbox and officehelper Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed an
FBSimCity, the explorable isometric city of Firebird internals, is at v0.9.0 — and this one adds the thing the project has been circling since it started. The city has always carried the same caveat: it is a model, it parses no SQL, and no Firebird code runs in your browser. The new machine room is the other thing.The machine roomThe machine room runs the actual Firebird engine: version
Electric Firebird (mariuz/electric-firebird on GitHub) compiles the Firebird database engine to WebAssembly, following the same approach PGlite took for PostgreSQL. The goal is to let Firebird run both server-side (Node.js) and fully client-side in the browser, with no server round-trip required for queries.Highlights:Two backends: a native Node.js implementation (via the Firebird Embedded Server
Correction (added 9 August 2026): the section below headed “A synchronous replica that dies hangs commits” is wrong. Dmitry Sibiryakov pointed this out on firebird-general, and the source confirms it. In src/jrd/replication/Publisher.cpp, checkStatus() is called with canThrow = false on the commit path, so it cannot throw; disable_on_error (default true) instead clears the replicating
Firebird's client library, libfbclient / fbclient.dll, has always been distributed exclusively as a shared library. PR #9104 by Adriano dos Santos Fernandes, merged into the Firebird source tree on July 24, 2026, changes that: it introduces an optional, non-default static archive (libfbclient.a on POSIX, fbclient_static.lib on Windows) for applications that need to link the client library
Big news for anyone using Firebird from Node.js: the pure-JavaScript node-firebird driver shipped eight releases in under a week (v2.6.0 → v2.14.0), completing its entire roadmap and closing all 47 open issues — some dating back to 2015. The driver now stands at feature parity with the best Node.js drivers for Postgres and MySQL, while staying pure JavaScript with zero native
We are excited to announce the release of cl-firebird v1.0.0 — a pure Common Lisp database driver for Firebird 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0+. Featuring full 1:1 feature parity with node-firebird, this release brings 12-factor connection URIs, thread-safe connection pooling, named placeholder parameter binding, custom type parsers (type-cast), streaming cursors, database events (POST_EVENT),
In the past we run several surveys to better understand the use cases for Calc, Impress, Draw, and Writer templates. And since TDF hired a developer for Base it’s time to investigate this module.
We collected a couple of questions that address not only actual users of LibreOffice Base but also people who use other tools or no database at all.
So please participate at https://survey.documentfoundation.org/493555 (expired August/18th).
If you are afraid of the English language either use a translator or let us do it. The more participants we get the better we can steer the development. As usual, we will present the results in this blog.
FBSimCity — the explorable isometric city of Firebird internals — is at v0.4.0, and this release adds a whole backup yard, built around what gbak and nbackup actually do. gbak: the backup that pins your OIT gbak takes a logical backup online: it attaches like any other client and reads every table through a snapshot transaction. That snapshot is the interesting part — it pins
I've published FBSimCity, an interactive visualization of Firebird internals: an explorable isometric city where every building is a subsystem from the classic Conceptual Architecture for Firebird paper (Chan & Yashkir), and queries commute through the pipeline as glowing particles — REMOTE harbor → Y-valve → DSQL → JRD, with the lock manager tower watching over it. The
LibreOffice 26.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2026 ( Check the Release Plan ). LibreOffice 26.8 RC1 is the third pre-release since development of version 26.8 started at the beginning of December, 2025. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 26.8 Beta1, 133 commits have been submitted
General Activities LibreOffice 26.2.4 was announced on June 5 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help article for presentation sections, added support for MathML markup in help pages, improved help for Writer’s break submenu and for some Calc functions and updated help after UI changes Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved strings in
We are thrilled to share the journey of our last 7 releases (from v2.3.3 to v2.6.0), which mark one of the most transformative periods in the history of the node-firebird driver. With this series of releases, we’ve migrated the driver to native TypeScript 7, implemented native Promise & async/await APIs, added support for Firebird 5.0 and 6.0 features,
Not bad for a few days of work , There are still lot's of bugs and UI inconsistencies ps: It's a fork of existing extension but using updated node drivers and updated roadmap (Firebird 6 support / Typescript 6.x)pps: I need to recover my MFA Azure Developer account to publish it soon
Going Native-Free: Introducing the Pure Node.js Wire Driver for Firebird Published in Engineering • Pull Request #168 Summary If you have ever built Node.js applications that communicate with a Firebird database, you are likely familiar with the standard setup routine. Traditionally, high-level drivers depended heavily on the native client library (
LibreOffice 26.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2026 ( Check the Release Plan ). LibreOffice 26.8 Beta1 is the second pre-release since development of version 26.8 started at the beginning of December, 2025. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 26.8 Alpha1, 445 commits have been submitted
IBPhoenix is pleased to announce the release of a new free ebook:Practical Firebird Performance Diagnostics: A Structured ApproachUnlike traditional performance tuning guides, this ebook focuses on the reasoning behind successful diagnostics. It introduces a structured framework that helps Firebird professionals move from observed symptoms to defensible explanations by classifying problems,
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.7 was announced on May 12 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the explanation for DATE function in Calc’s Function Wizard, continued documenting in help how LibreOffice treats non-integer values for function parameters expecting integer values, added a help page for Draft View in Writer, added help for Calculated
Firebird is gaining support for Unix Domain Sockets (UDS) through PR #9034, a feature aimed at improving local inter-process connectivity, especially in constrained environments like Android and iOS. The change introduces a new unix:// connection string format and a RemoteServiceUnixSocket configuration option, allowing Firebird clients and services to communicate over filesystem-based sockets
General Activities LibreOffice 26.2.3 was announced on April 30 Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated Writer’s Compatibility options help, improved documentation for wrapped images in headers, worked on documenting in help how LibreOffice treats non-integer values for function parameters expecting integer values, improved help for Declare statement in BASIC, added help for
Breaking the Single-Thread Barrier: How Firebird’s New Parallel Sort Changes Everything1. Introduction: The Multi-Core ParadoxThere is a specific economic and technical frustration well-known to database architects: authorizing the purchase of high-end silicon with 64 or 128 cores, only to watch the OS scheduler show a single thread redlining while the rest of the hardware sits idle.
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