LibreOffice

LibreOffice
Home screen LibreOffice 6.4.1.2 under Windows 10
Basic data
developer	The Document Foundation
Publishing year	January 25, 2011
Current  version	7.0.0 ( August 5, 2020 )
operating system	Windows , GNU / Linux , macOS , Android , iOS , Solaris , FreeBSD and other Unix variants, Haiku
programming language	C ++ , Java
category	Office package
License	MPL-2.0, GNU Lesser General Public License
German speaking	Yes
de.libreoffice.org

LibreOffice [ / ˈliːbɹə ˈɒfɪs / ] (abbreviations LibO or LO ) is a free compilation of typical standard software for office activities ( office package ). LibreOffice includes word processing , spreadsheet , presentation, and drawing programs . A database management system and a formula editor are also included.

LibreOffice split the end of 2010 from the office suite OpenOffice.org from, has since evolved independently and is now the more modern alternative.

In addition to the desktop version of Linux , Windows and MacOS , there are versions for Android - and iOS - smartphones and - Tablets . There is also a web app as an online office called LibreOffice Online .

history

The history of LibreOffice and the Document Foundation began with the release of the first beta version of the Office suite on September 28, 2010. The reasons for the split from the OpenOffice.org project and thus the history go back to 1999 . LibreOffice sees itself as a legitimate continuation of OpenOffice.org. Since OpenOffice.org itself is an official spin-off from StarOffice (now Oracle Open Office), its history is also understood as part of the LibreOffice project.

prehistory

After the original company behind the project, Star Division , had been taken over by Sun Microsystems in 1999, the sources of the proprietary StarOffice were released in the following year: OpenOffice.org was created. In the course of this approval, Sun Microsystems suggested the establishment of a foundation back in 2000 . The goal behind this project has not changed with the establishment of the Document Foundation: The development of the Office package is to be continued independently of company interests and the freedoms of both developers and users are to be strengthened.

After Sun Microsystems was taken over by Oracle in January 2010 and, as a result, the development of OpenOffice.org was transferred to their responsibility, dissatisfaction arose within the OpenOffice.org community. In particular, it was criticized that Oracle left the future of OpenOffice.org open and that support for the project was becoming increasingly sparse. In September 2010, leading members of the OpenOffice.org community finally decided to form the Document Foundation .

Shortly after the creation of LibreOffice, Oracle withdrew completely from the OpenOffice.org project and handed it over to the Apache Software Foundation , which renamed it Apache OpenOffice .

Split from Oracle

The split-off and independent continuation of the Office package became possible because OpenOffice.org was developed as free software . Unlike the software itself, Oracle had the exclusive right to use the name “OpenOffice.org” . The continuation of the project under the name OpenOffice.org required the approval of Oracle. Oracle decided not to hand over the naming rights to the newly established Document Foundation and sought to dissolve the existing links between the two projects. This forced further development under the new name LibreOffice. This is a hybrid word from libre, the Spanish and French word for free and the English word for office, office.

On February 16, 2011, the Document Foundation published an appeal for donations in order to establish a foundation under German law. The goal was to give the Document Foundation legal entity status . The 50,000 euros required for this were reached eight days after the announcement of the call.

Since LibreOffice sees itself as the legitimate OpenOffice.org successor, the project assigns the version numbers as under OpenOffice.org. The version number of the first stable release on January 25, 2011 was therefore 3.3.0. This version is considered to be the successor to OpenOffice.org 3.2.1. In January 2015, version 4.4 was the ninth major release of the project. The promotion and coordination of the project is supported by the non-profit Foundation The Document Foundation supported, founded in turn of former leading members of the OpenOffice.org community.

Oracle's retreat

In April 2011, Oracle stated that the OpenOffice.org project of open source - community and the Apache Software Foundation should be passed. Since the community had almost completely migrated to LibreOffice, this was tantamount to discontinuing OpenOffice.org. The Document Foundation emphasized that it was positive about the reunification of the projects and would accept new members at any time. Licensing the OpenOffice.org project under the Apache license would open up new opportunities for code exchange between the two projects. Nevertheless, only a little later, the Free Software Foundation recommended using LibreOffice and not OpenOffice.org.

distribution

Users over time

The figure shows the number of LibreOffice users worldwide from 2011 to 2018 in millions. Individual references are included in the text.

2011: According to the Document Foundation, LibreOffice was downloaded 350,000 times in the first week after the project started. Six months after the start of the project, the number of downloads rose to 1.3 million, not including downloads from other websites and the package management of Linux distributions . On the first "birthday" of LibreOffice in September 2011, the project had already recorded over 6 million downloads. In September 2011 alone, the Office package was downloaded 900,000 times, for which 81 mirror servers were available. In addition, there are an estimated 1.5 million downloads from other websites. The Document Foundation estimated in 2011 that 10 million people around the world actively use LibreOffice and obtained it through downloads or CDs . In addition, there are an estimated 15 million users who obtain LibreOffice through the package management of their Linux distribution. The foundation plans to increase that number from 25 million users to over 200 million users by the end of the decade.

2013: In September 2013, after two years, the estimated number of LibreOffice users was 75 million.

2015: In 2015, LibreOffice was used by 100 million users and 18 governments.

2016: In August 2016, the number of LibreOffice users was estimated at 120 million.

2018: The Document Foundation estimated in 2018 that there were 200 million active LibreOffice users worldwide. About 25% of them are students and 10% Linux users (who receive LibreOffice automatically through their distribution). In comparison, Microsoft Office was used by 1.2 billion users in 2018.

Market share

OpenOffice, the predecessor of LibreOffice, and its derivatives had a market share of over 20 percent among German-speaking Internet users in 2010, according to a study by Webmasterpro.de. In the EU this value was between 9 percent (Great Britain) and 22 percent (Poland); for the USA a market share of 9 percent was determined in this study.

Use in companies

The first larger companies also announced their intention to rely on LibreOffice in the future. For example, the Copenhagen hospitals and the Danish Ministry of Transport switched to LibreOffice. The administration of the French region Île-de-France announced in October 2011 that it would give away 800,000 USB sticks , which should contain LibreOffice and other free software, to students.

The Document Foundation

Participant of the LibreOffice Conference 2014 in Bern , with many members of the Board of Directors, the Members 'Committee, the Members' Board of Trustees and employees of the Document Foundation

The main development and maintenance of LibreOffice is done by the non-profit organization The Document Foundation (abbreviation: TDF) , founded on September 28, 2010 . She promotes and coordinates the further development of the Office package and participates in the further development of the open file format standard OpenDocument at OASIS . The Document Foundation is committed to free software and does not advertise any proprietary additional modules or the like. It is organized in a meritocratic manner and is committed to complete transparency . She wants to build on the ten-year history of the OpenOffice.org project with the conviction that only an independent foundation can offer developers the best possible conditions and an excellent product for users. Until 2012, The Document Foundation was not a legally established foundation. Rather, the "Foundation" was until the establishment of a foundation under German law by members of the Association of Free Office Germany e. V. worn.

The fact that Oracle announced in April 2011 that it would give up all commercial interests in the OpenOffice.org project and handed the project over to the Apache Software Foundation at the beginning of June 2011 does not change anything in its plan, according to the foundation. On the contrary, she was rather disappointed that Oracle had not used the opportunity to reunite both projects. She emphasized again that the foundation is open to new members at any time and would be positive towards reunification, but formal differences between the Document Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation would make this more difficult. A short time later, in mid-June 2011, the Document Foundation filled its Advisory Board . Particular attention was paid to manufacturer independence, as all sponsors are represented with one seat, regardless of their contribution. Members include Google , SUSE , Red Hat , Novell , Intel , the associations Free Office Germany e. V. and Software in the Public Interest (SPI) as well as the Free Software Foundation .

On February 1, 2012, The Document Foundation announced that it wanted to set up a foundation under civil law in Berlin. The resulting legal certainty ensures the long-term further development of the community and the software. Florian Effenberger acted as chairman of the board of the new foundation, and the association Freie Office Deutschland e. V. (formerly OpenOffice.org Germany e.V.). On February 17, 2012, the foundation was recognized by the foundation supervision in Berlin . Thorsten Behrens took over the chairmanship in February 2014.

Supporters and cooperations

The foundation works closely with other organizations of the former OpenOffice.org community such as the German Free Office Deutschland e. V. and the Brazilian BrOffice.org and receives support from projects like NeoOffice , from organizations like the Free Software Foundation, the Gnome Foundation and the Open Source Initiative and from companies like Google. The Linux distributors Canonical ( Ubuntu ), SUSE ( openSUSE , SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop , at the time of the announcement still under the umbrella of Novell ) and Red Hat ( Fedora , Red Hat Enterprise Linux ) have in addition to their support also the inclusion of LibreOffice in the next versions of their operating systems have been promised. The governments of various countries, including Brazil , India , China and Russia , have spoken out in favor of a development independent of company interests because of their intensive use of OpenDocument and have welcomed the establishment of the Document Foundation. Soon after the project was founded, large parts of the OpenOffice.org community reorganized and turned to LibreOffice. The Document Foundation has repeatedly emphasized that it welcomes the participation of new members and partners. At the end of September 2011, one year after the project was founded, the Document Foundation had 136 registered members.

The Document Foundation is a member of the Open Invention Network and SPI and presented itself at trade fairs such as Cebit and FOSDEM in the first year . She participates in the Google Summer of Code .

The German Federal Office for Information Security sees LibreOffice (and Linux ) as an alternative to proprietary cloud products for organizations with an interest in information security and sponsored some cryptographic functions of LibreOffice. Other cryptographic functions were sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Defense .

Conferences

Based on the annual OpenOffice.org conferences, the Document Foundation has been holding an annual “LibreOffice Conference” since 2011, which can be found on the web at https://conference.libreoffice.org.

• 2011 in Paris
• 2012 in Berlin
• 2013 in Milan
• 2014 in Bern
• 2015 in Aarhus
• 2016 in Brno
• 2017 in Rome
• 2018 in Tirana
• 2019 in Almería
• 2020 in web conference

aims

"Put simply, the goal of the foundation is to develop a repertoire of next-generation digital productivity and creativity tools by promoting a sustainable , independent and comprehensive community for the development of Free and Open Source Software [FOSS] based on open standards ."

- The Document Foundation : CommunityByLaws - A charter for the community

In its “Manifesto for the Next Decade”, the Document Foundation defines the values ​​and goals on which its work is based. It undertakes to do its part to bridge the digital divide by giving everyone access to a free office suite. The existing "monopoly of providers of office software", which is the quasi-monopoly of Microsoft Office , is rejected because it means "de facto a tax on electronic freedom of expression". The diversity of mother tongues is to be promoted by offering both LibreOffice and the associated documentation in as many languages ​​as possible and actively promoting translation into new languages. “The creeping dominance of computer systems in a single language” should be overcome and nobody should be forced to learn another language before using a computer. The Document Foundation shares the goals of the OpenDocument project and rejects “control over file formats by proprietary software companies”. LibreOffice is to be developed in "an open, transparent software development process characterized by mutual assessment, in which high technical quality is respected". All of this should take place under the umbrella of a democratic foundation that is open to everyone and that is also positive about the participation of companies and organizations.

The office suite

OpenOffice.org has been successively replaced by LibreOffice , especially in most Linux distributions . So put Ubuntu version 4.11, Fedora version 15, openSUSE version 11.4 and Linux Mint Version 11 on LibreOffice. The Debian project goes one step further and also automatically replaces existing OpenOffice.org installations in Debian 7.0, in Debian 6.0 with the help of a backport available to the user , with LibreOffice. With version 6.3 of Oracle Linux , Oracle also delivers LibreOffice as an integral part of its own Linux distribution.

The Document Foundation works on continuously improving the support of LibreOffice. In February 2012, for example, the Ask LibreOffice platform was opened, to which users can turn in the event of problems in order to receive help from other users. The offer, initially only available in English, is now also available in German.

Functions and properties

Compatibility with OpenOffice

LibreOffice Writer 5.3 with muffin interface on Ubuntu 16.04

Since LibreOffice is a spin-off from OpenOffice.org, the functions and properties of the office packages were initially essentially identical. At the beginning of the project, it seemed unlikely that OpenOffice.org would introduce innovations that were developed as part of the LibreOffice project. The reason was licensing considerations in connection with the commercial version of OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, which was sold by Oracle at that time . In return, there was nothing to prevent the inclusion of innovations in LibreOffice, which were developed as part of the OpenOffice.org project (→ see also: Section “ Legal Development History ”). By handing the OpenOffice.org project over to the Apache Software Foundation and renaming the office suite to Apache OpenOffice, these licensing problems were only partially resolved. While a code transfer from Apache OpenOffice to LibreOffice still does not pose a licensing problem, the opposite transfer is difficult. LibreOffice was released under the GNU GPL , a copyleft license , the concept of which is not reflected in the Apache license . However, since the GNU GPL requires the copyleft to persist, code adoption is excluded. Since LibreOffice is licensed multiple times under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), a code transfer at least in binary form would theoretically be conceivable.

According to investigations by the LibreOffice developer Michael Meeks, who is paid by SUSE, mutual code exchange is becoming more and more difficult and is becoming increasingly unlikely due to ongoing development. Due to the meanwhile considerable differences in the source code of the two projects, a quasi-automatic transfer of innovations is not possible, instead it is necessary to adapt every single innovation that is to be exchanged between the projects. It can therefore be assumed that, as development progresses, LibreOffice will contain other functions than OpenOffice.org and only changes that justify the effort will be exchanged between projects. There were minor differences between the two projects when the first stable version 3.3 was released (→ section “ LibreOffice 3.3 ”). The Go-oo spin-off from OpenOffice.org has merged into LibreOffice.

Modules and extensions

LibreOffice 3.6 Math on Windows 7

Like OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice has a modular structure and consists of six individual programs on the user side, which, however, can only be installed together.

component		description
	Writer	A WYSIWYG - word processor
	Calc	A spreadsheet program
	Impress	A program for creating, editing and viewing presentations
	base	A database management system
	Draw	A graphics program
	Math	A formula editor whose formulas can also be used in other components such as Writer and Impress.

These components can be installed and used independently of one another, following the concept of the overall package. To avoid unnecessary overhead, various functions, such as the spell checker and the thesaurus , are used in several components.

This modular structure also makes it possible to install and use third-party plug-ins and templates. The possibilities are hardly limited and range from simple document templates to additional cliparts to complex extensions of the functional scope. Since the installation of add-ons from untrustworthy sources represents a security and stability risk, the Document Foundation opened two platforms, initially marked as beta versions , in September 2011 , which are intended to minimize this risk and support the user in searching. Developers can upload additions as free software there , which after a test by a team of volunteers are added to the database and published. The database is also intended to include extensions that are compatible with OpenOffice.org. At the end of October 2011, the platform was marked as final and one month later it exceeded the mark of 100 listed extensions. Extensions in LibreOffice and OpenOffice share the filename extension .oxt.

LibreOffice is currently offered in 115 languages, including German. The standard file format is OpenDocument .

LibreOffice by itself, i.e. without installing an external PDF printer driver, also in the current version 6.x only supports PDF version 1.4 with encryption using the RC4 method, which is considered unsafe with a stream cipher and key lengths of up to 128 bits (see RC4 # Security ).

See also : Section "Program Package" from Apache OpenOffice

Supported Platforms

LibreOffice is available for the operating systems Windows (from XP ), Linux (from Kernel 2.6.18) and macOS (from Version 10.4). Microsoft Windows 2000 is no longer supported by LibreOffice from version 4.0, XP and Vista from version 6.0. To operate LibreOffice 3.x under Microsoft Windows 2000, the Windows Installer version 3.1 or higher is required. The Linux version requires several third-party packages and libraries that are included in the majority of distributions released in early 2007. In early 2015, a LibreOffice viewer for Android was released to be able to view open document text documents, presentations and conditional spreadsheets. In February 2020, Collabora released its first officially supported version of LibreOffice (under the brand name Collabora Office) for Android and iOS .

The system requirements for Windows and Linux are an Intel Pentium compatible processor (from Intel Pentium III ), 256  MB RAM and 1.5 GB hard disk space . The versions for Mac require an Intel Pentium processor, 512 MB RAM and 800 MB hard disk space and at least macOS version 10.9. The screen resolution should be at least 1024 × 768 pixels.

Since the source code of the package is available, it can also be installed on other platforms such as Solaris , FreeBSD and other Unix variants. The system requirements of the Linux variant must be met here. Porting to other platforms not mentioned is also possible.

LibreOffice Online

LibreOffice Online is the execution of LibreOffice as an online office . It is a web app which is installed on a server and which users can use with a web browser . It provides basic document sharing using the “core” of LibreOffice. The source code of LibreOffice Online was published in February 2017 with version 5.3 of LibreOffice. In 2016, LibreOffice Online resulted in Collabora Online , which is optimized for cloud integration. In June 2019, CIB Software GmbH officially announced its contributions to LibreOffice Online and "LibreOffice Online powered by CIB".

Portable edition

Under Windows , the installation of LibreOffice, as is usual with other programs, stores program and user-specific data on partition C: which means that it can be used on several computers with removable media (e.g. USB sticks or memory cards ) or on several Windows installations on the same computer difficult. With the help of a portable edition, which was first available in 2011, it is possible to use the Office suite without installing it. After unpacking into the target partition, the portable LibreOffice can be used with its full range of functions and with the settings selected by the user; almost no data is then written to partition C :. The official portable edition has since been included in the PortableApps project .

LibreOffice box

The LibreOffice box was published for the first time in autumn 2010 . The project officially supported by the Document Foundation came from the Verein Free Office Deutschland e. V. (formerly OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. ), which previously offered the comparable OpenOffice.org PrOOo-Box . The LibreOffice box is a DVD that - in addition to the Java runtime environment and the current version of LibreOffice for Windows , macOS and Linux - contains various other features related to the project, such as document templates , cliparts and various plug-ins such as Anaphraseus and a Dictionary . In addition, various programs are included that are often required in everyday office life, such as 7-Zip , Inkscape , Mozilla Firefox and Ghostscript . For LibreOffice developers, the DVD contains the source code of the program, the software development kit and various other programs for developers. At the end of 2013, the project "due to a lack of [...] employees and a lack of prospects" was suspended for the time being.

LibreOffice Impress Remote

With version 4.0 the LibreOffice Impress Remote was introduced, with which presentations can be remotely controlled via Bluetooth or WLAN . This remote control only needs to be activated in LibreOffice itself. The LibreOffice Impress remote control exists as an app for Android , Apple iOS and Pebbles .

development

Number of developers involved in LibreOffice from September 2010 to January 2012

The first beta version 3.2.99.1 was released at the start of the Document Foundation on September 28, 2010. While only 20 people were working on the development of the Office suite at the time, this number had risen to over 100 when the stable version 3.3 was released. Two months later, the number of developers rose to 150. One year after it was founded, in September 2011, the project had 270 developers and as many translators. In 2011 the number of developers grew almost linearly and rose to 390 developers in January 2012. The majority of these work on a voluntary basis for the project, but some of the companies involved in the project also set up employee teams to drive the LibreOffice development forward.

For the project's first birthday in September 2011, the LibreOffice code base was analyzed. At this point in time, only 20 percent of the code was directly attributable to OpenOffice.org, 25 percent was attributable to volunteer developers and the remaining 55 percent was contributed by various companies. 25 percent of the code base was developed by SUSE employees and another 20 percent by Red Hat .

In the 18 months since the split from OpenOffice.org, around 80 developers have worked on over 30,000 pieces of code per month. A comparison of LibreOffice and OpenOffice in March 2014 showed that LibreOffice is way ahead of OpenOffice in terms of both the frequency of updates and the number of developers and changesets submitted.

Publication cycles and quality management

The project has followed the usual six-month publication cycle in March and September in the free software environment since the beginning. Since lead times are particularly desired by Linux distributors, the planning provides for publications one month earlier, in February and August of each year. Stability updates, which usually only contain error corrections, should, if necessary, appear at approximately monthly intervals. Since a development branch is to be provided with such updates for one year, the current and the previous development branch are consequently supported by the project.

The quality management of the Document Foundation has a considerable influence on who is recommended which publication to whom. The versions are divided into the categories “Developer”, “Bleeding Edge”, “Stable”, “Very Stable” and “Rock Solid”. Self-compiled versions, nightly builds , preview versions and release candidates generally fall into the “Developer” category and should only be used by this user group ( software developers ).

The first version of each new development branch, for example 3.4.0, is only recommended for early adopters as a “bleeding edge” . For use in a less professional environment, for example for private users, a development branch from the first stability update, for example 3.4.1, is suitable; this is divided into the “stable” category. The “Very Stable” category, which is awarded with the second stability update (version xx2), is aimed at conservative users, for example small and medium-sized companies . Versions that are suitable for users who require a high level of stability - for example large companies - are considered to be “rock solid” . The third stability update (xx3) reaches this status. According to the plans of the Document Foundation, a new branch of development will then begin in which the cycle begins again. However, versions xx4 and higher often appear.

For users for whom no versions have yet appeared in the new development branch, we recommend the last version of the previous development branch, which is known as "Rock Solid". For companies that are considering professional help with a migration, the Document Foundation would like to publish a list of certified organizations in the future.

Versions and version history

When assigning its version numbers, LibreOffice is directly linked to OpenOffice.org. The first stable release was therefore 3.3.0 and is considered by the project to be the successor to OpenOffice.org 3.2.1.

See also : Apache OpenOffice # history  and StarOffice # versions

branch	version	Release	End of support	Remarks
3.3	Older version; no longer supported: 3.3.0	January 25, 2011	17th September 2011	First stable release based on OpenOffice 3.3. Excerpts from the changelog: Row limit in Calc has been increased to 1 million Improvement of the RTF export in Writer Import of SVG files possible New icon set (from 3.3.1) Further information regarding LibreOffice 3.3 can be found in the relevant subsection .
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.3.1	February 23, 2011
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.3.2	March 22, 2011
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.3.3	June 16, 2011
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.3.4	17th August 2011
3.4	Older version; no longer supported: 3.4.0	June 3, 2011	April 19, 2012	Excerpts from the changelog: Improved compatibility of Calc with Excel formats Optimization of the user interface in Writer, Impress and Draw Better text rendering on Linux Cleanup of the source code Further information regarding LibreOffice 3.4 can be found in the relevant subsection .
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.4.1	July 1, 2011
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.4.2	August 1, 2011
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.4.3	August 31, 2011
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.4.4	November 9, 2011
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.4.5	January 16, 2012
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.4.6	March 22, 2012
3.5	Older version; no longer supported: 3.5.0	February 14, 2012	November 8, 2012	Excerpts from the changelog: Revised spelling and grammar checker in Writer improved editor for headers and footers in Writer Calc supports up to 10,000 worksheets Notification of new program updates ODF 1.2 compliant documents For more information on LibreOffice 3.5, see the relevant subsection .
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.5.1	March 15, 2012
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.5.2	April 5, 2012
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.5.3	May 2, 2012
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.5.4	May 30, 2012
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.5.5	July 11, 2012
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.5.6	August 15, 2012
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.5.7	October 18, 2012
3.6	Older version; no longer supported: 3.6.0	August 8, 2012	15th August 2013	Excerpts from the changelog: PDF export with watermark in Writer SmartArts from Word documents can be imported Improved CSV import in Calc Calc supports gradients and bars within cells Further information regarding LibreOffice 3.6 is provided in the relevant subsection .
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.6.1	August 28, 2012
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.6.2	4th October 2012
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.6.3	November 1, 2012
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.6.4	5th December 2012
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.6.5	January 30, 2013
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.6.6	April 11, 2013
	Older version; no longer supported: 3.6.7	18th July 2013
4.0	Older version; no longer supported: 4.0.0	February 7, 2013	November 21st 2013	Excerpts from the changelog: Comment function for text areas in Writer Handwritten annotations from Word can be imported into Writer Smartphone-supported presentation control using Impress Remote Integration of the address book from Mozilla Thunderbird into Base is possible Abolition of many old functions, e.g. B. the StarOffice import For more information on LibreOffice 4.0, see the relevant subsection .
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.0.1	March 6, 2013
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.0.2	April 4, 2013
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.0.3	May 8, 2013
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.0.4	19th June 2013
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.0.5	22nd August 2013
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.0.6	October 24, 2013
4.1	Older version; no longer supported: 4.1.0	July 25, 2013	May 28, 2014	Excerpts from the changelog: Improvement of the compatibility with file formats from Microsoft Office Embedding fonts becomes possible Introduction of a sidebar Further information regarding LibreOffice 4.1 is provided in the relevant subsection .
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.1.1	29th August 2013
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.1.2	4th October 2013
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.1.3	1. November 2013
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.1.4	18th December 2013
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.1.5	11th of February 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.1.6	April 29, 2014
4.2	Older version; no longer supported: 4.2.0	January 30, 2014	January 6, 2015	Excerpts from the changelog: Better integration of LibreOffice in Windows 7 and 8 Improved performance when processing large amounts of data in Calc Increased compatibility when exchanging foreign formats Various layout improvements For more information on LibreOffice 4.2, see the relevant subsection .
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.2.1	20th February 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.2.2	March 23, 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.2.3	April 10, 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.2.4	May 8, 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.2.5	20th June 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.2.6	5th August 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.2.7	October 30, 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.2.8	December 12, 2014
4.3	Older version; no longer supported: 4.3.0	July 30, 2014	May 27, 2015	Excerpts from the changelog: Support for animated 3D models in Impress Improvement of the comment function in Writer Improvements to the filters for OOXML Improvements in Calc for more intuitive work Further information regarding LibreOffice 4.3 is provided in the relevant subsection .
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.3.1	August 28, 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.3.2	September 25, 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.3.3	October 30, 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.3.4	November 14, 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.3.5	December 18, 2014
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.3.6	February 20, 2015
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.3.7	April 25, 2015
4.4	Older version; no longer supported: 4.4.0	January 29, 2015	December 31, 2015	Excerpts from the changelog: Revision of the user interface Introduced new standard fonts in Writer Digital signing of PDF documents becomes possible during export Improvement of the import and export of Microsoft formats Further information regarding LibreOffice 4.4 can be found in the relevant subsection .
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.4.1	February 26, 2015
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.4.2	2nd April 2015
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.4.3	May 7, 2015
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.4.4	June 30, 2015
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.4.5	July 30, 2015
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.4.6	3rd November 2015
	Older version; no longer supported: 4.4.7	December 10, 2015
5.0	Older version; no longer supported: 5.0.0	5th August 2015	May 29, 2016	Excerpts from the changelog: For Windows, LibreOffice is now also available as a 64-bit version New icon set Breeze for better optical integration in KDE Plasma 5 Text editing is possible on Android Direct cropping of artwork in the document Simplified row and column references in Calc For more information on LibreOffice 5.0, see the relevant subsection .
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.0.1	August 27, 2015
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.0.2	23rd September 2015
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.0.3	3rd November 2015
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.0.4	17th December 2015
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.0.5	15th February 2016
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.0.6	5th May 2016
5.1	Older version; no longer supported: 5.1.0	February 10, 2016	November 27, 2016	Excerpts from the changelog: PNG export in Writer, Calc and Impress Import of the following formats supported: Gnumeric (Linux only), Microsoft Write, Apple Keynote 6 (based on librevenge) A main menu called “Styles” has been added to Writer Writer: white area between pages can be hidden (from 5.1.1) Further information regarding LibreOffice 5.1 is provided in the relevant subsection .
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.1.1	March 10, 2016
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.1.2	April 7, 2016
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.1.3	May 12, 2016
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.1.4	June 23, 2016
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.1.5	3rd August 2016
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.1.6	October 27, 2016
5.2	Older version; no longer supported: 5.2.0	3rd August 2016	4th June 2017	Excerpts from the changelog: simplified representation of the toolbar Support for the TSCP standard for document classification improved import of linked graphics in DOCX and RTF documents
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.2.1	September 7, 2016
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.2.2	29th September 2016
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.2.3	3rd November 2016
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.2.4	December 22, 2016
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.2.5	January 26, 2017
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.2.6	March 9, 2017
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.2.7	May 9, 2017
5.3	Older version; no longer supported: 5.3.0	1st February 2017	November 26, 2017	Excerpts from the changelog: Table styles in Writer Arrow toolbox in Writer and Calc higher compatibility with ODF 1.2 Template selection dialog for Impress Changeover to Firebird 3.0 HarfBuzz as a text layout engine more options for digital signatures Improvements to the XLSX filter New import filter for StarOffice v3 – v5 Better configurable surface ("Muffin") Furthermore, the source code of LibreOffice Online will be released for the first time .
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.3.1	March 16, 2017
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.3.2	April 6, 2017
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.3.3	May 11, 2017
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.3.4	June 26, 2017
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.3.5	3rd August 2017
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.3.6	August 31, 2017
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.3.7	2nd November 2017
5.4	Older version; no longer supported: 5.4.0	28th July 2017	June 11, 2018	Excerpts from the changelog: Enhancements to the export of lists Revised cell and leaf protection options Support of pivot charts more options for digital signatures Improvements to the EMF + and PDF import filters Last version with support for Windows XP, Windows Vista and macOS 10.8
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.4.1	August 31, 2017
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.4.2	5th October 2017
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.4.3	9th November 2017
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.4.4	20th December 2017
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.4.5	February 9, 2018
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.4.6	March 22, 2018
	Older version; no longer supported: 5.4.7	17th May 2018
6.0	Older version; no longer supported: 6.0.0	January 31, 2018	November 26, 2018	Excerpts from the changelog: Lots of detail changes; u. a. Direct cursor in Writer, rotating images new data sources for serial letters new standard formats for tables advanced spell check Ranges of cells with formulas can be exported from Calc as images OpenPGP keys are supported with additional software.
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.0.1	February 9, 2018
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.0.2	1st March 2018
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.0.3	5th April 2018
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.0.4	May 9, 2018
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.0.5	June 22, 2018
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.0.6	2nd August 2018
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.0.7	5th November 2018
6.1	Older version; no longer supported: 6.1.0	August 8, 2018	29 May 2019	Excerpts from the changelog: Signature line in Writer Images in Calc has been improved Link to external data in Data
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.1.1	13th September 2018
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.1.2	September 27, 2018
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.1.3	5th November 2018
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.1.4	December 18, 2018
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.1.5	February 7, 2019
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.1.6	May 7, 2019
6.2	Older version; no longer supported: 6.2.0	February 7, 2019	November 30, 2019	Excerpts from the changelog: further improvements in handling Microsoft Office formats new user interfaces in Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw ("Notebookbar" and "Groupedbar") various revisions to the user interface (e.g. to the icon themes)
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.2.1	March 6, 2019
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.2.2	March 21, 2019
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.2.3	April 18, 2019
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.2.4	May 22, 2019
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.2.5	4th July 2019
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.2.6	August 14, 2019
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.2.7	5th September 2019
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.2.8	17th October 2019
6.3	Older version; no longer supported: 6.3.0	August 8, 2019	May 29, 2020	Excerpts from the changelog: Possibility of blackening (obscuring) text (redaction)
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.3.1	5th September 2019
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.3.2	26th September 2019
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.3.3	October 31, 2019
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.3.4	December 12, 2019
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.3.5	February 20, 2020
	Older version; still supported: 6.3.6	April 30, 2020
6.4	Older version; no longer supported: 6.4.0	January 29, 2020	November 30, 2020	Excerpts from the changelog: Integration of a QR code editor Revised and extended handling of tables in Writer various performance improvements in Calc
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.4.1	February 27, 2020
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.4.2	March 19, 2020
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.4.3	April 16, 2020
	Older version; no longer supported: 6.4.4	May 21, 2020
	Older version; still supported: 6.4.5	2nd July 2020
	Older version; still supported: 6.4.6	August 2020
	Future version: 6.4.7	October 12, 2020
7.0	Current version: 7.0.0	5th August 2020	May 31, 2021	Excerpts from the changelog: Extensive improvements to the DOCX import / export filters. DOCX now saves in native mode 2013/2016/2019 instead of compatibility mode 2007. various performance improvements Replacement of Cairo by Skia
	Future version: 7.0.1	August 31, 2020
	Future version: 7.0.2	5th October 2020
	Future version: 7.0.3	November 9, 2020
	Future version: 7.0.4	December 14, 2020
	Future version: 7.0.5	March 1, 2021
	Future version: 7.0.6	May 3, 2021
Legend: Older version; no longer supported Older version; still supported Current version Current preliminary version Future version

Timeline

"Fresh" (latest version) and "Still" (stable version)

In addition to the developer versions, since March 2014 and version 4.2.2 there have been two important published versions of LibreOffice at any point in time: “Fresh”, the latest version, and “Still”, the stable version. The names of these two versions indicate that they are suitable for different usage scenarios. The two versions of LibreOffice are characterized as follows:

• "Fresh" - is the latest bugfix release of the current major version, which contains the latest improvements, but which may also contain bugs that are not present in the "Still" version.
• "Still" (formerly called "Stable") - is the last bugfix release of the previous major version. This version has been bugfixed for several months. This version is recommended for users who focus on stability.

First version: LibreOffice 3.3

LibreOffice 3.3 Writer under Windows XP

LibreOffice 3.3 is based on OpenOffice.org 3.3, the code base of which has been reviewed and revised. The import, open and save functions have been improved, so that all programs in the Office suite can open and save documents as a single XML document. The print dialog has been revised and should offer the user clearer and faster access to the essential functions. On Linux systems, the Java Media Framework is no longer required to play music and movies.

The import of PDF documents is now possible. These are opened in Draw and can be edited and saved there. Integration into documents is possible as an OLE object in every program in the Office suite. Various plug-ins have been added to the standard installation that expand the functionality of LibreOffice. The graphical user interface has received detailed improvements and is available in 19 additional languages.

With the release of version 3.3.1, the Office package also received new document icons.

Writer has had a revised auto-correction function, and title pages are easier to manage with the help of a new dialog. The navigator, with the help of which the structure of larger documents can be understood more quickly and easily, has been revised. The search and statistics functions have been improved in detail. In Microsoft Word forms can be put -documents and Lotus Word Pro and Microsoft Works documents created can be imported. The import of documents created in WordPerfect has been significantly improved , as has the export to Rich Text Format .

In Calc, the ability to use keyboard shortcuts has been revised. For example, navigation in formulas is possible using keyboard shortcuts . The opening of spreadsheets has generally been accelerated. The creation of new worksheets has been simplified and the associated tabs can be colored. The number of rows that can be used in a worksheet has been increased from 65,536 to 1,048,576. Several hierarchically structured axis designations can be displayed in diagrams. Draw can edit graphics in SVG format; it can also be imported into the other programs in the Office suite. Opening Microsoft PowerPoint documents in Impress has been accelerated and the handling of slide layouts has been improved.

In addition, all the new features of OpenOffice.org 3.3 are also included in LibreOffice 3.3. This also applies to the improvements developed as part of Go-oo .

Other 3.x versions

LibreOffice 3.4 Impress on Fedora 16 (Linux)

The following versions of LibreOffice were not aimed at major changes, but rather small incremental improvements in terms of speed, lower consumption of system resources, stability, freedom from errors, compatibility and new functionality. Another important goal was the processing of the source code to make it easier for new programmers to understand and work with. In the course of this work-up, a lot of unused source code was removed and the implementation of automated tests pushed ahead. In addition, dependencies on other programs, especially Java, have been reduced.

When developing LibreOffice 3.4, the main focus was on stability. Although there are also numerous innovations in this new main version ("major release"), the majority of the changes are due to improvements in stability and speed. LibreOffice works faster under Linux and improves the text display, has been purged and takes up less memory on all platforms . The Graphite engine has been rewritten, which means that it should not only be more stable but also work ten times faster. Support for special international fonts, including right-to-left fonts , has been improved. In addition to the well-known search function, a search bar, also known from modern web browsers , has been added. The compatibility with OpenDocument and the OOXML formats has been improved.

LibreOffice 3.5 Calc on Mac OS X Lion 10.7

Like LibreOffice 3.4, LibreOffice 3.5 focuses primarily on bug fixes and further revision of the source code. LibreOffice 3.5 includes an online update function, which automatically updates the software on Windows and Mac and the Windows installation file is available as an MSI package . AES is used for encryption instead of Blowfish . The user interface has been revised and simplified, particularly when it comes to handling headers, footers and page breaks, as well as editing graphics. The support for the OpenFormula specification has been improved, a native driver for PostgreSQL databases has been added, the import of Microsoft Visio graphics into Draw has been made possible for the first time and the import of RTF text documents has been improved.

LibreOffice 3.6 Writer on Windows 8

As with the previous versions, the LibreOffice project also concentrated on numerous detail improvements and bug fixes in the fourth main version 3.6 instead of individual, extensive innovations. In addition to additional options for formatting in Writer and Calc, watermarks can be added to documents during PDF export . The interface of the Office suite has been cleaned up and received some detail improvements, for example statistics such as the number of words in the open Writer document are displayed in the status bar, and the design of the start screen, "Start Center" and information screen has been standardized. Various dialogs have been revised and existing restrictions removed, in particular the context menu has been expanded in some places, which means that functions can be accessed more quickly. The import of "Smart Arts" from Microsoft Office documents and graphics from CorelDraw has been expanded, the support of OpenFormula has been further improved and under Linux the support for GTK themes and Trinity has been improved.

4.x versions

Like the previous versions, LibreOffice 4.0 brings a number of small innovations and some improvements in compatibility with various formats, especially the DOCX format. Some of these improvements were imported from the Lotus suite, the source code of which IBM donated to Apache OpenOffice. However, the most significant changes that are cited to justify the version jump are not obvious to users. So the relicensing of the source code was completed, which is now fully licensed under GPL 3 and subsequent versions, LGPL 3 and subsequent versions, and MPL. In addition, official support for some very old formats has been discontinued and the outdated functionality of the Uno programming interface has been removed. For the first time, there is a difference between the programming interfaces of LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice, so that extensions for one of the programs are no longer automatically compatible with the other program in the future. The dependence on Java has been further reduced, but not completely eliminated.

From version 4.4 LibreOffice comes with the free fonts Carlito and Caladea , which are metrically compatible with the proprietary fonts Calibri and Cambria and can replace them if they are not installed. Microsoft Office has been using the Calibri font as its default font since 2007, so the free fonts significantly improve the perceived compatibility with Microsoft Office documents.

5.x versions

The main version 4.5 was renamed to "Version 5.0" in April 2015, because LibreOffice 5 can not only view texts on Android (as possible since May 2015), but also edit them. Version 5.0.0 was released on August 5th, 2015. Version 5.0.4 was released on December 17th, 2015 and initiated the mass switch from LibreOffice 4 to LibreOffice 5 in 2016.

6.x versions

LibreOffice Writer 6.4.1.2 on Windows 10

The main version 5.5 planned for the first half of 2018 was renamed "Version 6.0" in June 2017. Reasons for this were probably changes in the branding policy and the user interface (after all, several new versions of the “LibreOffice Ribbon UI” ribbon appeared). The first version 6.0.0 was released on January 31, 2018. The Ubuntu distribution made the jump to LibreOffice 6 in its version released in April 2018 with long-term support (18.04 LTS), which accelerated the transition to LibreOffice 6 from April 2018. From LibreOffice version 6.0.0, Microsoft Windows XP and Vista were no longer supported.

7.x versions

With the release of the first version 7.0 in August 2020, the rendering engine was changed. Instead of the long-used "Cairo" engine, the better-maintained library "Skia" with Vulkan support has now been used. LibreOffice version 7 offered support for the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.3 as a separate file format. This format allows cryptographic signing of documents as well as encryption using OpenPGP in a "native" function . Files with the DOCX file format were no longer saved in the backward compatible mode for Microsoft Office 2007 as of version 7; Instead, it was saved in the format of the current Office versions.

Legal development history

Like OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice is free software . Before the OpenOffice.org project was transferred to the Apache Software Foundation , Version 3 of OpenOffice.org was published under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The option often given to the user to use a newer version of the license did not exist. This initially also applied to LibreOffice. By transferring OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, the program code is also available under the company's own license, the Apache license . This allows both an almost unconditional continued use and a republication under completely different conditions. Since the Document Foundation prefers free software licenses with copyleft and the Apache license enables such a license model, LibreOffice is licensed multiple times under the LGPL in version 3 or newer and the Mozilla Public License (MPL) in version 1.1 or newer .

With both LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org, the user is granted the unrestricted freedom resulting from this licensing. Before the OpenOffice.org project was transferred to the Apache Software Foundation, unlike LibreOffice, the developers involved were confronted with regulations that restricted their rights. Like Sun Microsystems since the project was founded, Oracle pursued the goal of preserving the copyright exploitation rights when developing OpenOffice.org . To do this, every developer who wanted to make an improvement had to sign the Sun Microsystems Inc. Contributor Agreement . The effect of this agreement was, among other things, that Oracle was granted the right to choose the license under which the introduced improvements are published. Only then was it possible for Oracle to allow changes made in OpenOffice.org to flow back into their proprietary StarOffice office package, which was subject to a fee .

The agreement went even further and granted all of the developer's copyright rights to Oracle - a "joint authorship" was created. The agreement was particularly criticized because this joint authorship expired as soon as a change was made to the improvement. Specifically, this meant that a joint authorship only existed as long as the introduced improvement remained unchanged - if it was changed, the original developer would lose his rights. In this case, the agreement was equivalent to a transfer of all copyrights. Oracle has also been granted the right to this Agreement, intellectual property rights ( patents , utility models , designs , trademarks , etc.) to register and to take advantage and make the requisite property law.

Unlike OpenOffice.org, developers who want to make their improvements available to LibreOffice never have to sign such agreements. You thus remained the sole owner of the copyright. Since the transfer of the OpenOffice.org project to the Apache Software Foundation, the same applies to OpenOffice.org. Nevertheless, according to the Document Foundation, it was precisely these legal aspects that were decisive for the fact that, soon after the project was founded, far more developers turned to LibreOffice than had ever been the case with OpenOffice.org before.

literature

• Dieter Brors, Ralf Nebelo: Battle of the Twins: LibreOffice challenges OpenOffice . In: c't - magazine for computer technology . No. 5 . Hanover 2011, p. 106–109 (The article describes the differences between LibreOffice 3.3 and OpenOffice.org 3.3).
• Karsten Günther: LibreOffice - short & good . 1st edition. O'Reilly, Beijing / Cambridge / Farnham / Cologne / Sebastopol / Tokyo 2011, ISBN 978-3-86899-118-5 .
• Thomas Krumbein: LibreOffice 3 - Entry and Migration: Compact introduction to all modules . 1st edition. Tintal Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-943771-01-5 .

Web links

Commons : LibreOffice  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Manuals
• The Document Foundation (English)
• Florian Effenberger: The Document Foundation - 18 months later. ( Memento from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Video presentation from Cebit 2012

Individual evidence

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