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LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice).

Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity.

Out now: LibreOffice 7.5

Dark mode improvements • Data tables in charts • Better bookmark handling

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Welcome Michael Weghorn, new Developer at TDF

The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, providing infrastructure and support for the community that makes the suite. Recently, TDF decided to expand its small team with two new Developers – the first (Khaled Hosny) focusing on “complex” text layout languages. Today, we welcome our second Developer, Michael Weghorn, who will initially […]

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LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2023

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started June by announcing the LibreOffice Conf Asia x UbuCon Asia 2023, in Indonesia, an event that brings together Linux and Open Source Software (OSS) activists, contributors, users, communities, and […]

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QA/Dev Report: June 2023

General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.4 was released on June 8 Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, corrected help pages to match UI changes and refactored PostgreSQL connection setup dialog Seth Chaiklin made some UI label improvements and updated help after UI changes for Body Text style, AutoCorrect and Navigator heading manipulation Laurent Balland fixed[…]

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Parallel build: tuning the performance

Do you want to build LibreOffice alongside other applications that are open on your computer like the IDEs, and you want to keep the programs responsive during the build? Then you need to know how to tune the parallel build. Here I discuss how.

Parallel Build

By default, LibreOffice uses the number of CPU cores as the number of parallel builds. In this way, if your CPU has 32 cores, you will get 32 parallel processes dur[…]

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