LibreOffice (/ˈliːbrə/)[10] is a
free and open-sourceoffice productivity software suite, a project of
The Document Foundation (TDF). It was
forked in 2010 from
OpenOffice.org, an open-sourced version of the earlier
StarOffice. It consists of programs for word processing; creating and editing spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams, and drawings; working with
databases; and composing mathematical formulae. It is available in 115 languages.[8] TDF does not provide support for LibreOffice, but enterprise-focused editions are available from companies in the ecosystem.[11]
LibreOffice uses the
OpenDocument standard as its native file format, but supports formats of most other major office suites, including
Microsoft Office, through a variety of import and export filters.
LibreOffice Online is an
online office suite that includes the applications Writer, Calc, and Impress, and provides an
upstream for projects such as commercial
Collabora Online.
It is the most actively developed free and open-source office suite, with approximately 50 times the development activity of
Apache OpenOffice, the other major descendant of OpenOffice.org, in 2015.[17]
The project was announced, and a beta was released on September 28, 2010. LibreOffice was downloaded about 7.5 million times between January 2011 (the first stable release) and October 2011.[18] The project claimed 120 million unique downloading addresses from May 2011 to May 2015 (excluding Linux distributions), with 55 million of those from May 2014 to May 2015.[19] The Document Foundation estimates that there are 200 million active LibreOffice users worldwide, about 25% of whom are students and 10% are Linux users.[20]
A
word processor with functionality similar to Microsoft office and file support for
Microsoft Word or
WordPerfect files. It has extensive
WYSIWYG word processing capabilities, but can also be used as a basic
text editor.[21] It can also create fillable forms via
PDF or the Forms tab.
An application designed for creating and editing mathematical formulae. The application uses a variant of
XML for creating formulas, as defined in the OpenDocument specification. These formulas can be incorporated into other documents in the LibreOffice suite, such as those created by Writer or Calc, by embedding the formulas into the document.[26]
A
database management program, similar to
Microsoft Access. LibreOffice Base allows databases to be created and managed, and the generation of forms and reports of database content. Like Access, it can be used to create small embedded databases that are stored with the document files (using Java-based
HSQLDB and
C++ based
Firebird as its storage engine), and for more demanding tasks it can also be used as a front-end for various database management systems, including
Access Database Engine (ACE/JET),
ODBC/
JDBC data sources, and
MySQL,
MariaDB,
PostgreSQL and
Microsoft Access.[21][27]
LibreOffice Impress and Math, version 7.2.4 (released in December 2021, running on
Linux and
KDE Plasma 5 with the Breeze icon set)
Historically, predecessors of LibreOffice, dating back to
StarOffice 3, have run on
Solaris with
SPARC CPUs that
Sun Microsystems (and later Oracle) made. Unofficial ports of LibreOffice, whose versions are now obsolete, have supported SPARC. Current unofficial ports of LibreOffice 5.2.5 run only on Intel-compatible hardware, up to Solaris 11.
In 2011, developers announced plans to port LibreOffice both to
Android and to
iOS.[37] A beta version of a document viewer for Android 4.0 or newer was released in January 2015;[38] in May 2015, LibreOffice Viewer for Android was released with basic editing capabilities.[39] In February 2020,
Collabora released its first officially supported version of LibreOffice (branded as Collabora Office) for Android and iOS.[40] In July 2020, Collabora shipped an app, branded Collabora Office, for
ChromeOS, as used on the popular Chromebook line of notebook computers as well as other form factors of computers.
The LibreOffice
Impress Remote application for various mobile operating systems allows for remote control of LibreOffice Impress presentations.
In June 2023,
Red Hat announced that it will no longer support LibreOffice on future editions of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux in order to focus on
Wayland support and other priorities towards workstation users. LibreOffice will still be available via distribution-neutral
Flatpak.[41] Starting with LibreOffice 7.6 on Fedora 39, packaging and maintenance of LibreOffice on Fedora Linux will be managed by the Fedora LibreOffice Special Interest Group instead of Red Hat.[42][43]
LibreOffice Online is the
online office suite edition of LibreOffice. It allows for the use of LibreOffice through a web browser by using the
canvas element of
HTML5. Development was announced at the first LibreOffice Conference in October 2011, and is ongoing.[45] The Document Foundation,
IceWarp, and
Collabora announced a collaboration to work on its implementation.[46][47] A version of the software was shown in a September 2015 conference,[48] and the UK
Crown Commercial Service announced an interest in using the software.[49][50] On 15 December 2015, Collabora, in partnership with ownCloud, released a technical preview of LibreOffice Online branded as Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE).[51] In July 2016 the enterprise version
Collabora Online 1.0 was released.[52] The same month,
Nextcloud and Collabora partnered to bring CODE to Nextcloud users.[53][54] By October 2016, Collabora had released nine updates to CODE.[55] The first source code release of LibreOffice Online was done with LibreOffice version 5.3 in February 2017.[56][57] In June 2019, CIB software GmbH officially announced its contributions to LibreOffice Online and "LibreOffice Online powered by CIB".[58]
In October 2020 Collabora announced the move of its work on
Collabora Online from The Document Foundation infrastructure to
GitHub.[59]
Comparison with OpenOffice
A detailed 60-page report in June 2015 compared the progress of the LibreOffice project with the related project Apache OpenOffice. It showed that "OpenOffice received about 10% of the improvements LibreOffice did in the period of time studied."[60]
LibreOffice can use the
GStreamer multimedia framework in Linux to render multimedia content such as videos in Impress and other programs.
Visually, LibreOffice used the large "
Tango style" icons that are used for the application shortcuts, quick launch icons, icons for associated files and for the icons found on the toolbar of the LibreOffice programs in the past,[83][84] and used on the toolbars and menus by default. They were later replaced by multiple icon themes to adapt the look and feel of specific desktop environment, such as Colibre for Windows, and Elementary for GNOME.[85]
LibreOffice also ships with a modified theme which looks native on GTK-based Linux distributions. It also renders fonts via
Cairo on Linux distributions; this means that text in LibreOffice is rendered the same as the rest of the Linux desktop.[86]
With version 6.2, LibreOffice includes a ribbon-style GUI, called Notebookbar, including three different views.[87]
This feature has formerly been included as an experimental feature in LibreOffice 6 (experimental features must be enabled from LibreOffice settings to make the option available in the View menu).[88]
LibreOffice has a feature similar to
WordArt called Fontwork.[89]
LibreOffice supports a "hybrid PDF" format, a file in
Portable Document Format (PDF) which can be read by any program supporting PDF, but also contains the source document in ODF format, editable in LibreOffice by dragging and dropping.[92]
Licensing
The LibreOffice project uses a dual
LGPLv3 (or later) / MPL 2.0 license for new contributions to allow the license to be upgraded.[93] Since the core of the OpenOffice.org codebase was donated to the
Apache Software Foundation, there is an ongoing effort to get all the code rebased to ease future license updates. At the same time, there were complaints that
IBM had not in fact released the
Lotus Symphony code as open source, despite having claimed to. It was reported that some LibreOffice developers wanted to incorporate some code parts and bug fixes which IBM already fixed in their OpenOffice fork.[94]
Scripting and extensions
LibreOffice supports third-party extensions.[95] As of July 2017[update], the LibreOffice Extension Repository lists more than 320 extensions.[96] Another list is maintained by the
Apache Software Foundation[97] and another one by the
Free Software Foundation.[98] Extensions and scripts for LibreOffice can be written in C++, Java,
CLI, Python, and
LibreOffice Basic.
Interpreters for the latter two are bundled with most LibreOffice installers, so no additional installation is needed. The
application programming interface for LibreOffice is called "
UNO" and is extensively documented.[99]
A timeline of major derivatives of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org with LibreOffice in green
ooo-build, Go-oo and Oracle
Members of the OpenOffice.org community who were not
Sun Microsystems employees had wanted a more egalitarian form for the OpenOffice.org project for many years; Sun had stated in the original OpenOffice.org announcement in 2000 that the project would eventually be run by a neutral foundation[101] and put forward a more detailed proposal in 2001.[102]
Ximian and then
Novell had maintained the ooo-build
patch set, a project led by
Michael Meeks, to make the build easier on
Linux and due to the difficulty of getting contributions accepted upstream by Sun, even from corporate partners. It tracked the main line of development and was not intended to constitute a fork.[103] It was also the standard build mechanism for OpenOffice.org in most
Linux distributions[104] and was contributed to by said distributions.[105]
In 2007, ooo-build was made available by Novell as a software package called
Go-oo (ooo-build had used the go-oo.org
domain name as early as 2005[106]), which included many features not included in upstream OpenOffice.org. Go-oo also encouraged outside contributions, with rules similar to those later adopted for LibreOffice.[107]
Sun's contributions to OpenOffice.org had been declining for some time.[108] They remained reluctant to accept contributions[109] and contributors were upset at Sun releasing OpenOffice.org code to IBM for
IBM Lotus Symphony under a proprietary contract, rather than under an open source licence.[110]
Sun was purchased by
Oracle Corporation in early 2010. OpenOffice.org community members were concerned by Oracle's behaviour towards open source software, specifically the
Java lawsuit against Google[111] and Oracle's withdrawal of developers,[112] and lack of activity on or visible commitment to OpenOffice.org, as had been noted by industry observers;[113] as Meeks put it in early September 2010, "The news from the Oracle OpenOffice conference was that there was no news."[114] Discussion of a fork started soon after.[115]
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice
On 28 September 2010,
The Document Foundation was announced as the host of LibreOffice, a new derivative of OpenOffice.org. The Document Foundation's initial announcement stated their concerns that Oracle would either discontinue OpenOffice.org, or place restrictions on it as an open source project, as it had on Sun's
OpenSolaris.[116][117][118][119]
LibreOffice 3.3 beta used the ooo-build build infrastructure and the OpenOffice.org 3.3 beta code from Oracle, then adding selected patches from Go-oo.[120] Go-oo was discontinued in favour of LibreOffice. Since the office suite that was branded "OpenOffice.org" in most Linux distributions was in fact Go-oo, most moved immediately to LibreOffice.[121]
Oracle was invited to become a member of The Document Foundation. However, Oracle demanded that all members of the OpenOffice.org Community Council involved with The Document Foundation step down from the OOo Community Council, claiming a conflict of interest.[122]
Naming
The name "LibreOffice" was picked after researching trademark databases and social media, as well as after checks were made to see if it could be used for
URLs in various countries.[123] Oracle rejected requests to donate the OpenOffice.org brand to the project.[124]
LibreOffice was initially named BrOffice in Brazil. OpenOffice.org had been distributed as BrOffice.org by the BrOffice Centre of Excellence for Free Software because of a trademark issue.[125]
End of OpenOffice.org and beginning of Apache OpenOffice
Oracle announced in April 2011 that it was ending its development of OpenOffice.org and would lay off the majority of its paid developers.[126] In June 2011, Oracle announced that it would donate the OpenOffice.org code and trademark to the
Apache Software Foundation,[127] where the project was accepted for a project incubation process within the foundation, thus becoming
Apache OpenOffice. In an interview with
LWN in May 2011, Ubuntu founder
Mark Shuttleworth blamed The Document Foundation for destroying OpenOffice.org because it did not license its code under Oracle's
Contributor License Agreement.[128] In opposition to Shuttleworth's view, the former Sun executive
Simon Phipps argued in the interview for the same online magazine, that the lay-off was an inevitable business decision by Oracle, not impacted by existence of LibreOffice.[129]
In March 2015, an LWN.net comparison of LibreOffice with its cousin project Apache OpenOffice concluded that "LibreOffice has won the battle for developer participation".[130]
Export cell range selection or a selected group of shapes (images) to PNG or JPG
The text/plain Unformatted text format results in unquoted/unescaped content as expected for external pastes
Added "Paste unformatted text" command
New command to select unprotected cells on protected or unprotected sheet
Lock symbol to mark protected sheet
Added three new ODFF1.2 compliant functions
English syntax keywords for number format
"Styles" entry in the main menu
Impress:
Better UI for handling layer attributes
Added 10 new Impress templates
Slide format defaulting to 16:9 screen
Core and filters:
Addition of
Noto fonts and some additional Arabic and Hebrew fonts
Cross platform support for OpenPGP document signing and encryption
TSCP-based classification for ODF and OOXML formats
Option to save images modified in place
Visualization of borders for tables
New filters to import from QuarkXPress 3–4 and export to EPUB
Various improvements to OOXML, EMF+, ODF, XHTML, Adobe Freehand, Pagemaker, publisher, Visio, FictionBook, Abiword, Apple Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Quattro Pro filters
GUI:
Insert Special Characters button become drop-down list, Special characters dialog was also reworked
Added elementary icon theme
Reworked Customize dialog
Added Groupedbar Full and Tabbed Compact interfaces
Added experimental feature for Universal Accessibility
Calc:
TEXT() now allows the second argument to be an empty format string for interoperability with other implementations
Improved opening speed of XLSX files with many pictures
Impress & Draw
Subscripts now return to the default of 8%. Automatic positioning fixed for superscripts and subscripts in Textboxes
Implemented support for semi-transparent text
Speed up: Long operation during typing in list with animations
Speed up: entering to table editing mode became faster
Base:
Macro signatures are now evaluated on document load
Math:
Added RGB personalized color
Added Laplace symbol
Core / General:
The underlying Cairo graphics library was replaced with Skia library
Glow effect on objects was implemented
Navigator's categories are gray if they do not have any items
All objects in Navigator (Headings, Tables, Frames, Images, etc.) have own context menu items like Go To, Edit, Delete, Rename
Headings in Navigator have Promote/Demote level and Promote/Demote chapter context menu items
Table's context menu in Navigator now has Insert caption item
Added Outline tracking for Headings in Navigator. It can be in three states: Default, Focus, Off. Try clicking with your mouse in several places in your big text document with many headings
Replaced the navigation toolbox with the navigate by elements control
Added Navigator section tooltip word and character count
Filters:
Added support for exporting to ODF version 1.3
Multiple improvements for Open XML filters
GUI:
All toolbars are locked by default now on fresh user profiles
Added a new Sukapura icon theme. That icon theme will be a default theme for new LibreOffice installations in macOS
Sifr has been polished and receive many updates
The unmaintained Tango icon theme was removed from core but will be available as extension
New icons and banner in Windows installer
Renaming a page in Draw or slide in Impress with empty or already used name give a tool tip dialog
New Style Inspector to display the attributes of Paragraph and Character Styles, and manually formatted (Direct Formatting) properties
Default anchor for newly added images is able to be configured
Ability to detect Unicode, even if the imported text file does not have the
Byte Order Mark
Significant speed improvement of find/replace operations
Calc:
Added an option to manage pasting with Enter key
Added option to select items in Autofilter window clicking on all item's row, in addition to the checkbox
Significant speed improvement of Autofilter and find/replace operations
Impress & Draw:
Possibility to add visible signatures to existing PDF files in Draw
Possibility to change animations for several objects at once in Impress
Addition of "Pause/Resume" and "Exit" buttons to Presenter's Screen
Addition of realistic soft blurred shadows to objects
Addition of new physics based animation capabilities and new animation effect presets that use them
General:
New dialog to select the User Interface flavor, aiming to pick the right UI based on each user's own preferences at first start
Improved search for a matching printer paper size for the printed document
Show all supported files when adding a new extension in Extension Manager
Print Preview is now updated asynchronously, to not block UI when adjusting settings in Print Dialog
Additions Dialog: to search, get and install extensions with one-click
Macro:
ScriptForge libraries: an extensible and robust collection of macro scripting resources for LibreOffice to be invoked from user Basic or Python scripts
This is the first version added experimental support for Windows ARM64 platform.
Visualization and Manage Changes support for tracked deletion and insertion of tables and table rows.
Calc:
The "Link to External Data" dialog lists HTML tables in the order they appear in the source.
Whitespace line feed and character tabulation in cell formula expressions are now preserved and survive round-tripping between Office Open XML and ODF file formats.
New "Evaluate formulas" option in the CSV Import and Paste Special and Text to Column dialog.
Bash like autocompletion for Calc autoinput was implemented.
Use system's highlight color for cell cursor.
Support Color Filter in "Standard Filter" dialog.
Queries and filters using some text-based operations such as 'contains' now properly work even with numeric data.
Quick find allowed to search for values instead of formulas.
New Page Number Wizard in the Insert menu, for easy one-step insertion of the page number in the header/footer
The Paragraph Style dropdown in the Formatting toolbar shows a list of styles used in the document, rather than the full list of the available styles
Tables of Figures can be generated more flexibly based on paragraph styles
Bibliography entries can be edited directly from a bibliography table, and bibliography marks hyperlink by default to the matching row in a bibliography table
Highlighting for used paragraph and character styles and direct formatting in text
Phrase checking: multi-word dictionary items of Hunspell and custom dictionaries are now accepted
Calc:
Number format: ? is now supported when exporting to ODF to represent an integer digit, replaced by blank if it is a non significant zero, and decimals for formats in seconds without truncation like [SS].00 are now accepted
Spreadsheets copied to another document retain a user-defined print range
Solver settings are saved with documents, and page styles are exported even if they are not in use
Support for drawing styles for shapes and comments, including a dedicated style for comments that makes it possible to customize the default look and text formatting of new comments
New compact layout for pivot tables
Autofilter support for sorting by color. Filter/sort by color considers colours set by number format.
The Import Text dialog (as CSV file or as unformatted text) has a new option to not detect number in scientific notation (only if “Detect Special Numbers” is off)
Impress & Draw:
New navigation panel for switching slides while viewing a presentation (option is enabled by flagging a checkbox in Slide Show Settings)
Objects can now be listed in front to back order in the Navigator, with the top-most object at the top of the list
Support for free text annotations to PDFium import, plus support for ink, free text and polygon/polyline annotations in PDFium export
Modified the auto-fitting text scaling algorithm to work in a way similar to MS Office. Text scaling now separates scaling for space (paragraph and line) and scaling fonts, where space scaling can be 100%, 90% and 80%, and font scaling is rounded to the nearest point size. Horizontal spacing (bullets, indents) is not scaled anymore
Base:
Added Firebird functions DATEDIFF and DATEADD to the set of functions that can be used in the query designer
Added MariaDB/MySQL functions TIMESTAMPDIFF and TIMESTAMPADD to the set of functions that can be used in the query designer
Core / General:
Added support for zoom gestures when using touchpads in the main view
Exporting to PDF updates the last printed time in document properties
Added support for document themes
Added support for multicolor gradients
Each view of a document now can have its language specific accelerator manager
Entering a group once again dims the objects that are not included in it
Added support for compressing fullwidth CJK punctuations
Categorized link targets when linking to a presentation
Filters:
Added support for OOXML files created in ZIP64 format
Added support for SVG files with elements prefixed by fe
This is the last version to support the FTP protocol.
"Legal" ordered list numbering: make a given list level use Arabic numbering for all its number parts
Comments can use styles
Linkable elements can be drag-and-dropped from the Navigator onto a text selection to use the selection as the hyperlink text
Nested Sections can be collapsed just like Headings and can be hidden or made visible from their context menu
In Outline Folding mode, the hidden headings are greyed out in the Navigator instead of not being visible
Start of multi-page floating tables in Writer
Comments in a thread are now grouped in the Navigator
Templates with the required settings for Japanese text added to the Localization category
New line break algorithm with the concept of Microsoft Word 2013
Calc:
New search field in the Functions sidebar deck
Support scientific number format in ODF
Shortcuts to switch sheets now work to cycle from last to first
Highlight the row and column for the active cell
Impress:
Implement Small Caps effect in Character dialog
Draw:
Support to import multi-page TIFF files placing one image per page
Math:
Support Arabic mathematical notation
Support custom Math font
Inline (Visual) formula editing mode enabled by default
Core / General:
"Save AutoRecovery information" and "Always create backup copies" turned on by default
Exporting to PDF updates the last printed time in document properties
Added search functionality in LibreOffice
Automatically switching to dark app colors and a dark icon theme when a dark color scheme is configured in the desktop settings also works for the Qt-based UI variants
Expert config shows explanatory text to the config items in a tooltip
Expert config can be filtered by modified values
Alt+NumPad codes support for Windows allow full Unicode range
The Insert Special Characters dropdown now shows a character description for the selected character
Display password strength meter while input password
Localization:
Add Armenian locale
Mascot competition
In late 2017 The Document Foundation held a competition for the new mascot of LibreOffice. The mascot was to be used primarily by the community, and was not intended to supersede existing logos for the project. Over 300 concepts were submitted before the first evaluation phase.[184]
The mascot contest was cancelled soon after new submissions stopped being accepted. The Document Foundation cited their lack of clear rules and arguments among community members as their reasoning for cancelling the contest.[185]
Versions
Since March 2014 and version 4.2.2, two different major "released" versions of LibreOffice are available at any time in addition to development versions (numbered release candidates and dated nightly builds).[186] The versions are designated to signal their appropriateness for differing user requirements.[187] Releases are designated by three numbers separated by dots. The first two numbers represent the major version (branch) number, and the final number indicates the bugfix releases made in that series. LibreOffice designates the two release versions as:
"
Fresh" – the most recent major version (branch), which contains the latest enhancements but which may have introduced
bugs not present in the "still" release.
"Still" (formerly "Stable") – the prior major version, which, by the time it has become the "still" version, has had around six months of bug fixing. It is recommended for users for whom stability is more important than the latest enhancements.
Since January 2024 and version 24.2.0, LibreOffice use calendar-based release numbering scheme.[178]
Release schedule
LibreOffice uses a
time-based release schedule for predictability, rather than a "when it's ready" schedule. New major versions are released around every six months, in January or February and July or August of each year. The initial intention was to release in March and September, to align with the schedule of other free software projects.[188]
Minor bugfix versions of the "fresh" and "still" release branches are released frequently.
As of version 7.1, the open source release of LibreOffice is officially branded as "LibreOffice Community", in order to emphasize that the releases are intended primarily for personal individual use, and are "not targeted at enterprises, and not optimized for their support needs". The Document Foundation states that usage of the community versions in such settings "has had a two-fold negative consequence for the project: a poor use of volunteers' time, as they have to spend their time to solve problems for business that provide nothing in return to the community, and a net loss for ecosystem companies."[190]
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Worldwide number of LibreOffice users from 2011 to 2018 in millions. References are in the text.
The figure shows the worldwide number of LibreOffice users from 2011 to 2018 in millions. References are in the text.
2011: The Document Foundation estimated in September 2011, that there were 10 million users worldwide who had obtained LibreOffice via
downloads or
CD-ROMs. Over 90% of those were on Windows, with another 5% on
OS X. LibreOffice is the default office suite for most
Linux distributions, and is installed when the
operating system is installed or updated. Based on
International Data Corporation reckonings for new or updated Linux installations in 2011, The Document Foundation estimated a subtotal of 15 million Linux users. This gave a total estimated user base of 25 million users in 2011.[191] In 2011, the Document Foundation set a target of 200 million users worldwide before the end of 2020.[191]
2013: In September 2013, after two years, the estimated number of LibreOffice users was 75 million.[192] A million new unique IP addresses check for downloads each week.[193]
2015: In 2015, LibreOffice was used by 100 million users and 18 governments.[194]
2016: In August 2016, the number of LibreOffice users was estimated at 120 million.[195]
2018: The Document Foundation estimated in 2018 that there are 200 million active LibreOffice users worldwide. About 25% of them are students and 10% Linux users (who often automatically receive LibreOffice through their distribution).[196] In comparison, Microsoft Office was used in 2018 by 1.2 billion users.[197]
Mass deployments
LibreOffice has seen various major deployments since its inception:
2003–2010
In 2003–2004, the Brazilian corporation
Serpro started migrating its software to BrOffice (the local version of LibreOffice at the time), with estimated value of
BRL 3.5 million (approximately US$1.2 million at the time), and became a
case study for similar initiatives in Brazil, particularly in
e-government.[198]
In 2005, the French Gendarmerie announced its migration to OpenOffice.org.[199] It planned to migrate 72,000 desktop machines to a customised version of Ubuntu (
GendBuntu) with LibreOffice by 2015.[200]
In 2010, the Irish city of
Limerick gradually started migrating to open-source solutions to free itself from
vendor lock-in and improve its purchase negotiation power. One of the key aspects of this move has been the use of LibreOffice.[201]
2011
The administrative authority of the
Île-de-France region (which includes the city of Paris) included LibreOffice in a
USB flash drive given to students which contains free open-source software. The USB flash drive is given to approximately 800,000 students.[37][202]
It was announced that thirteen hospitals of the
Copenhagen region would gradually switch to LibreOffice, affecting "almost all of the 25,000 workers".[203]
In July, the Spanish city of
Las Palmas switched its 1,200 PCs to using LibreOffice, citing cost savings of €400,000.[205]
The administration of
Umbria, Italy, started a project to migrate an initial group of 5,000 civil workers to LibreOffice.[206]
The city of
Largo, Florida, US, has been a long-time user[207] of open-source software using Linux thin clients. Originally using OpenOffice.org, the city switched to LibreOffice in 2013.[208]
2013
In August, the administration of the Spanish autonomous
region of Valencia has completed the migration of all 120,000 PCs of the administration, including schools and courts, to LibreOffice.[209]
The German city of
Munich announced that it would transition from OpenOffice to LibreOffice in the near future. This is in line with Munich's long-term commitment to using open-source software. Munich uses
LiMux, an
Ubuntu Linux derivative, on nearly all of the city's 15,000 computers.[210][211] The city of Munich is the second public administration to join the advisory board at the Document Foundation.[212] News appeared in 2014 that the council is considering migrating back to Microsoft Windows & Microsoft Office[213] but was later denied.[214] Based on a study, the mayor of Munich,
Dieter Reiter, initiated the re-investigation of the scenario of migrating back to Microsoft systems.[215] The trustworthiness of the study is questionable because the company has been "Microsoft's Alliance Partner of the Year" for nine years.[216] Further details were issued by the Document Foundation.[217]
2014
The French city of
Toulouse announced it saved €1 million by migrating thousands of workstations to LibreOffice.[218][219]
2015
The Italian Ministry of Defense announced that it would install LibreOffice on 150,000 PCs.[220]
The Italian city of
Bari replaced Microsoft Office with LibreOffice on its 1,700 PCs.[221]
LibreOffice was officially made available for all UK Government agencies nationwide.[222] Annual cost saving on a subscription for 6,500 users compared to MS Office is approximately £900,000.[223]
In July 2015, the IT project manager working for the administration of Nantes (France's sixth largest city) talked about the ongoing switch of its 5,000 workstations to LibreOffice started in 2013. According to the IT project manager, the switch to LibreOffice allowed the administration to save €1.7 million.[224]
As of 2015, LibreOffice is installed on almost all of the 500,000 workstations of the 11 French ministries members of the MIMO working group.[225] The MIMO working group was the first public administration to join the advisory board at the Document Foundation.[226]
2016
The Taiwanese
county of Yilan would purchase no more Microsoft Office licenses and turned to ODF and LibreOffice.[227]
Lithuanian police switched to LibreOffice on over 8,000 workstations, citing cost savings of €1 million.[229]
2017
The majority (75%) of municipalities in the
Walloon region of Belgium use open source software and services which include LibreOffice. As of March 2017, over 20,000 public administration staff and many times more citizens use the services.[230]
The Spanish autonomous region of
Galicia announced plans to finalize its switch to LibreOffice at several central government services and ministries, making LibreOffice the only office productivity suite on 6,000 workstations.[231]
The city of
Rome, Italy, began installing LibreOffice on all of its 14,000 PC workstations, in parallel to the existing proprietary office suite. It is one of the planned steps to increase the city's use of free and open-source software, aiming to reduce lock-in to IT vendors.[232]
2018
Barcelona, Spain announced its transition to LibreOffice from Microsoft Office in January 2018. The change was part of a broader shift from proprietary to open-source software, and the city council aimed to eventually reach "full technological sovereignty" by eliminating its dependency on Microsoft products. During the announcement, Barcelona indicated that it would dedicate 70 percent of its software budget to open-source software.[233][234][235]
The city of
Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, is migrating all of its PC workstations, around 2,000, to
Pardus and LibreOffice.[236][237]
The city of
Tirana, Albania, is finishing installing LibreOffice on all of the city's 1,000 PC workstations.[238]
2019
The city of
Seixal, Portugal, migrated to LibreOffice on 1,100 workstations across all departments in Seixal City Hall.[239][240]
2020
The German state of
Schleswig-Holstein wants to switch completely from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice by 2025 for its 25,000 employees. The transition will begin gradually in 2021.[241]
2021
Administration of several Russian
nuclear power plants and subsidiaries of
Rosatom are planning to switch to
Astra Linux by the end of 2021, which includes LibreOffice; a total of 15,000 users.[242]
Conferences
Starting in 2011,
The Document Foundation has organized the annual LibreOffice Conference, as follows:
EuroOffice is a derivative of LibreOffice with free and non-free extensions, for the Hungarian language and geographic detail, developed by Hungarian-based MultiRacio Ltd.[261][262]
"NDC ODF Application Tools" is a derivative of LibreOffice provided by the
Taiwan National Development Council (NDC) and used by public agencies in Taiwan.[263]
NeoOffice (discontinued 2024) 2017 and later versions are based on LibreOffice.[264] Prior versions included stability fixes from LibreOffice, but were based on OpenOffice.[265]
OxOffice is a derivative of LibreOffice (originally a derivative of OpenOffice.org[266]) with enhanced support for the
Chinese language.[267]
OffiDocs is a derivative of LibreOffice online developed and supported by the OffiDocs Group OU[268] with multiple applications to use LibreOffice in mobile apps.[269]
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"LibreOffice: What's New?"(PDF). OpenSUSE conference 2015 Den Haag. p. 4.
Archived(PDF) from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2015. Tracking direct download Update Ping origins. Excludes all Linux Distributions downloads ~120m so far ( + Linux ) This time last year @ openSUSE con. was ~65m
^"LibreOffice Math". Libreoffice.org.
Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
^"LibreOffice Base". The Document Foundation.
Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
^Vignoli, Italo (29 July 2015).
"The road to LibreOffice 5.0". The Document Foundation Blog. The Document Foundation.
Archived from the original on 30 July 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
^Meeks, Michael (19 October 2011).
"Stuff Michael Meeks is doing". Michael Meeks' blog. People.gnome.org.
Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2015. LibreOffice On-Line in slideware
^Linton, Susan (5 June 2015).
"Apache OpenOffice versus LibreOffice". OStatic.
Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2015. OpenOffice received about 10% of the improvements LibreOffice did in the period of time studied.
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abcdef"LibreOffice 5.0 Release Notes". The Document Foundation Wiki. The Document Foundation. 4 December 2015.
Archived from the original on 9 October 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
^Bergmann, Stephan (7 July 2006).
".oxt, .uno.pkg, .zip". dev@extensions.openoffice.org (Mailing list). Archived from
the original on 5 May 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2007.
^Meeks, Michael (24 July 2004).
"The World of OpenOffice"(PDF). In John W. Lockhart (ed.). Proceedings of the Linux Symposium.
Linux Symposium 2004. Vol. 2. Ottawa, Ontario. pp. 361–366. Archived from
the original(PDF) on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
^Meeks, Michael (28 January 2005).
"ooo-build 1.3.8 Announced". LWN.net.
Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
^Yoshida, Kohei (2 October 2007).
"History of Calc Solver". Roundtrip to Shanghai via Tokyo.
Archived from the original on 18 January 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
^Dölle, Mirko (4 November 2010).
"Die Woche: Bad Company Oracle?" [The Week: Bad Company Oracle?]. Heise Open Source (in German). Heinz Heise.
Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013. Nach der Übernahme von Sun hatte Oracle offenbar etliche Entwickler vom OpenOffice-Projekt abgezogen, was zu empfindlichen Verzögerungen bei der Weiterentwicklung geführt hat. [After the acquisition of Sun, Oracle apparently took several developers off the OpenOffice project, which led to severe delays in development.]
^"LibreOffice 5.1 Release Notes". The Document Foundation Wiki. The Document Foundation. 10 February 2016.
Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
^"LibreOffice 5.2 Release Notes". The Document Foundation Wiki. The Document Foundation.
Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
^Vignoli, Italo (7 February 2018).
"Wednesday Community No. 4". The Document Foundation Blog.
Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
^pluby (7 November 2013).
"Mac App Store complaints". trinity.neooffice.org.
Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
^"Openoffice.org與OxOffice" [Openoffice.org and OxOffice]. iT邦. 15 October 2010.
Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2015.