Notices by LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org), page 8

We're getting closer and closer to #LibreOffice 24.8, our next major release – due in late August! The first Release Candidate is now available for testing: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/07/16/libreoffice-24-8-rc1-is-available-for-testing/ #foss #opensource #news

@iuvi Hi! You can submit enhancement requests here: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org – But of course, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. To get a new feature more quickly, you can consider helping our volunteers, or funding a developer. Thank you ☺️👍

Stay up-to-date! ☀️ #LibreOffice 24.2.5 is our latest release, with bugfixes and compatibility improvements: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/07/11/libreoffice-24-2-5/ #foss #opensource

@coopotron Thanks!

@fredbrooker @in_sympathy Actually, there is: LibreOffice Online, and apps based on it: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/

LibreOffice's #Design community did lots of UI and #UX work last year! Including major improvement to the suite's dark mode: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/07/12/libreoffice-design-ux-and-ui-updates-tdfs-annual-report-2023/ #foss #OpenSource

@AthanSpod Thanks for letting us know – we'll investigate and fix it...

Update time! #LibreOffice 24.2.5 is now available – the fifth minor update to our current major release. It includes over 70 bug fixes and compatibility improvements: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/07/11/libreoffice-24-2-5/ #foss #opensource #news

@aner @mike Hi Mike, Aner! Yes, it'd be a cool feature to have. We get an enormous amount of feature requests, but as you know we're a volunteer-driven community project with extremely limited resources. Anyone is welcome to get involved, or fund a developer to work on it, and we can make it happen 😊 https://www.documentfoundation.org/certified-developers/

@alnotz The 500 page Base Guide is here: https://books.libreoffice.org/en/ – It's for an older version of LibreOffice, but there haven't been huge changes in the last few years. Re: BASIC, there are lots of guides on our wiki. Remember that the documentation is written by volunteers, so if you're missing something, please help us to fill the gaps 😊

@nikant Hi! LibreOffice 7.6 is now end-of-life (EOL), so we only offer 24.2 on the download page. (We're moving away from the "fresh" and "still" labels, but let us know if you still see them somewhere!)

@iamnickops Yes, not everyone has a link but you can contact the companies that employ them, or ask on the developer list: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice – Re: structure, as we're a community open source project we don't have a rigid "structure" per se. Doers decide, and anyone is welcome to contribute or fund a developer to work on something. Technical decisions are taken by the Engineering Steering Committee: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ESC – Hope that helps! 😊

@iamnickops Thanks a lot! Regarding contacting someone, we don't have "people at LibreOffice" as such, as we're not a company, but an open source community project. So filing an enhancement request on Bugzilla is a good starting point – but as mentioned, we're volunteers with extremely limited resources. If you want to get this moving more quickly, you can consider contacting and funding one of the developers here: https://www.documentfoundation.org/certified-developers/

@iamnickops Hi! You can submit enhancement requests here: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org – But of course, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. To get a new feature more quickly, you can consider helping our volunteers, or funding a developer. Thank you ☺️👍

New features and improvements are coming to #LibreOffice 24.8, due next month! Like a better Notes Panel in Impress, thanks to Sarper Akdemir @allotropia: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/07/08/qa-dev-report-june-2024/

Over 19 million views of the #LibreOffice website last year! And actually, that's just for the English-language version. More stats in our Annual Report: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/07/08/websites-and-blogs-tdfs-annual-report-2023/ #foss #OpenSource

@joachim Then please consider helping our community to make it happen, or funding a developer. We love new features too but can't make them all happen without help. Let's do it together 😊

@joachim Hi! You can submit it as an enhancement request at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ – But please remember, we're a volunteer-driven project with extremely limited resources. We get a huge number of feature requests but unfortunately very few people offer to help our community, or fund developers. If some people do this, we can get this feature and much more 😊

No office suite is complete without high-quality documentation! Check out what the #LibreOffice docs community worked on last year – and download the books: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/07/04/libreoffice-documentation-updates-in-2023-tdfs-annual-report/ #foss #opensource

@AxelStieglbauer Hi! Some people in the community are working on an extension (which is purely optional, of course): https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/41988