LibreOffice

{{Short description|Free and open-source office software suite}}

{{Use American English|date=August 2018}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}

{{Infobox software

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| logo = LibreOffice Logo Flat.svg{{!}}class=skin-invert

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| screenshot = LibreOffice Start Center, macOS 13.5.1, LibreOfffice 7.6.0.3.png

| caption = LibreOffice 7.6 Start Center (released in August 2023, running on macOS)

| author = Star Division

| developer = The Document Foundation

| released = {{Start date and age|2011|01|25|df=yes}}

| ver layout = stacked

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| programming language = C++, XML, Python, and Java{{Cite web |url=https://www.openhub.net/p/libreoffice/analyses/latest/languages_summary |title=The LibreOffice Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page |access-date=28 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328192305/https://www.openhub.net/p/libreoffice/analyses/latest/languages_summary |archive-date=28 March 2019 |url-status=dead }}

| operating system = {{hlist

| Linux

| macOS

| Windows

| Android{{cite web |title=Android |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Android |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |access-date=5 June 2024}}}}

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| Unofficial: BSD

| ChromeOS{{Cite web |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/ |title=App Stores and Chromebooks |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=5 August 2021 |archive-date=11 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811185802/https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/ |url-status=live }}

| Haiku

| iOS{{Cite web |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/ |title=LibreOffice for Android and iOS |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=5 August 2021 |archive-date=11 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811185014/https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/ |url-status=live }}

| iPadOS

| Solaris{{Cite web |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/System_Requirements#LibreOffice_on_other_OSes |title=Documentation/System Requirements – The Document Foundation Wiki |website=wiki.documentfoundation.org |access-date=12 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407085910/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/System_Requirements#LibreOffice_on_other_OSes |archive-date=7 April 2019 |url-status=dead }}

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| platform = x86-64, IA-32, ARMel, ARMhf, ARM64, MIPS, MIPSel, PowerPC, ppc64le, S390x,{{Cite web |url=https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libreoffice |title=Debian – Details of package libreoffice in jessie |publisher=Debian project |access-date=12 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514102410/https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libreoffice |archive-date=14 May 2019 |url-status=dead }} VLIW

| replaces = OpenOffice.org

| language count = 120

| language footnote = {{Cite web |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/?lang=pick |title=LibreOffice Fresh download – pick language |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=7 June 2024}}

| genre = Office productivity suite

| license = MPL-2.0{{Cite web |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/download/license/ |title=Licenses |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=16 December 2015 |archive-date=11 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160211123201/http://www.libreoffice.org/download/license/ |url-status=live }}

| standard = OpenDocument

| website = {{URL|https://libreoffice.org}}

}}

LibreOffice ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|iː|b|ɹ|ə}}){{Cite web |title=Marketing/InitialBranding – The Document Foundation Wiki |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/InitialBranding#LibreOffice |access-date=1 February 2024 |website=wiki.documentfoundation.org}} is a free and open-source office productivity software suite developed by The Document Foundation (TDF). It was created in 2010 as a fork of OpenOffice.org, itself a successor to StarOffice. The suite includes applications for word processing (Writer), spreadsheets (Calc), presentations (Impress), vector graphics (Draw), databases (Base), and formula editing (Math). It supports the OpenDocument format and is compatible with other major formats, including those used by Microsoft Office.

LibreOffice is available for Windows, macOS, and is the default office suite in many Linux distributions.Attributable to multiple sources:{{Bulleted list|{{Cite web|title=Office apps|url=https://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features/office-applications|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329082552/http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features/office-applications|archive-date=29 March 2013|access-date=16 February 2014|website=Ubuntu|publisher=Canonical Ltd.}}|{{Cite web|title=LibreOffice|url=https://wiki.debian.org/LibreOffice|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104155621/https://wiki.debian.org/LibreOffice|archive-date=4 November 2018|access-date=4 May 2019|website=Debian help|publisher=Debian}}|{{Cite web|title=Office and productivity features|url=https://fedoraproject.org/en/features/#office|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913161622/http://fedoraproject.org/en/features/#office|archive-date=13 September 2014|access-date=16 February 2014|publisher=Fedora Project}}|{{Cite web|date=7 March 2011|title=openSUSE 11.4 Will Be First To Roll Out With LibreOffice|url=https://news.opensuse.org/2011/03/07/opensuse-11-4-will-be-first-to-roll-out-with-libreoffice/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116082718/https://news.opensuse.org/2011/03/07/opensuse-11-4-will-be-first-to-roll-out-with-libreoffice/|archive-date=16 November 2018|access-date=4 May 2019|website=openSUSE News|publisher=openSUSE}}}} LibreOffice Online, an online office suite, offers browser-based versions of Writer, Calc, and Impress.

TDF describes LibreOffice as a "community edition" intended for individual users, and encourages enterprises to obtain the software and technical support services from ecosystem partners such as Collabora. TDF states that most development is carried out by these commercial partners in the course of supporting enterprise customers.{{Cite web |date=2021-02-05 |title=Open-source LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off our Community version, you are hurting development |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-libreoffice-tells-businesses-get-off-our-community-version-you-are-hurting-development/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205125041/https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-libreoffice-tells-businesses-get-off-our-community-version-you-are-hurting-development/ |archive-date=2021-02-05 |access-date=2021-08-23 |website=ZDNet |quote=TDF highlights that 73% of commits are from developers employed by these partners, including Collabora, Red Hat and CIB/allotropia}} This arrangement has contributed to a significantly higher level of development activity compared to Apache OpenOffice, another fork of OpenOffice.org,{{Cite web |last=Corbet |first=Jonathan |title=Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/637735/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930063841/https://lwn.net/Articles/637735/ |archive-date=30 September 2018 |access-date=11 March 2016 |website=LWN.net |publisher=Eklektix, Inc.}} which has struggled since 2015 to attract and retain enough contributors to sustain active development and to provide timely security updates.{{Cite web |last=Linton |first=Susan |date=5 June 2015 |title=Apache OpenOffice versus LibreOffice |url=http://ostatic.com/blog/apache-openoffice-versus-libreoffice |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816050447/http://ostatic.com/blog/apache-openoffice-versus-libreoffice |archive-date=16 August 2016 |access-date=22 June 2015 |website=OStatic |quote=OpenOffice received about 10% of the improvements LibreOffice did in the period of time studied.}}{{Cite web |date=21 January 2015 |title=The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes January 21, 2015 |url=http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2015/board_minutes_2015_01_21.txt |access-date=3 May 2015 |publisher=Apache Software Foundation}}{{Cite web |date=2024-11-20 |title=The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes |url=https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2024/board_minutes_2024_11_20.txt |website=www.apache.org}}

LibreOffice was announced on 28 September 2010, with its first stable release in January 2011. It recorded about 7.5 million downloads in its first year,{{Cite news |last=Thomson |first=Iain |date=28 September 2011 |title=On its first birthday, LibreOffice has reason to celebrate |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/28/libreoffice_celebrates_first_birthday/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116114652/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/28/libreoffice_celebrates_first_birthday/ |archive-date=16 November 2018 |access-date=28 September 2011 |work=The Register |location=United Kingdom}} and more than 120 million by 2015, excluding those bundled with Linux distributions.{{Cite web |last=Meeks |first=Michael |date=2 May 2015 |title=LibreOffice: What's New? |url=https://people.gnome.org/~michael/data/2015-05-02-libreoffice-whats-new.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305040049/https://people.gnome.org/~michael/data/2015-05-02-libreoffice-whats-new.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2016 |access-date=4 May 2015 |publisher=OpenSUSE conference 2015 Den Haag |page=4 |quote=Tracking direct download Update Ping origins. Excludes all Linux Distributions downloads ~120m so far ( + Linux ) This time last year @ openSUSE con. was ~65m}} As of 2021, TDF estimated around 200 million active users.{{Cite web |date=21 June 2021 |title=LibreOffice: A history of document freedom |url=https://opensource.com/article/18/9/libreoffice-history#:~:text=The%20Document%20Foundation%20estimates%20that,part%20of%20their%20preferred%20distribution. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309133423/https://opensource.com/article/18/9/libreoffice-history#:~:text=The%20Document%20Foundation%20estimates%20that,part%20of%20their%20preferred%20distribution. |archive-date=9 March 2020 |access-date=20 June 2022 |work=Opensource.com}} The suite is available in 120 languages.{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice Fresh download – pick language |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/?lang=pick |access-date=7 June 2024 |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

Features

= Included applications in LibreOffice =

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| Writer

| Word processor program, similar to Microsoft Word, with support for multiple file formats and WYSIWYG editing.{{Cite web |title=What is LibreOffice? |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009061752/https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/ |archive-date=9 October 2018 |access-date=4 May 2019 |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

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| Calc

| Spreadsheet program, similar to Microsoft Excel, with support for charts, formulas, and data analysis.{{Cite web |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/calc/ |title=LibreOffice Calc |publisher=Libreoffice.org |access-date=24 November 2014 |archive-date=9 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009024223/https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/calc/ |url-status=live }}

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| Impress

| Presentation program, similar to Microsoft PowerPoint.{{Cite web |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/ |title=LibreOffice Impress |publisher=Libreoffice.org |access-date=24 November 2014 |archive-date=3 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903144326/https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/ |url-status=live }}

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| Draw

| Vector graphics editor, similar to Microsoft Visio, also capable of basic image and PDF editing.{{Cite web |url=http://www.libreoffice.org/discover/draw/ |title=LibreOffice Draw |publisher=Libreoffice.org |access-date=24 November 2014 |archive-date=20 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141120050336/http://www.libreoffice.org/discover/draw/ |url-status=live }}

32px

| Math

| Formula editor for mathematical expressions.{{Cite web |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/math/ |title=LibreOffice Math |publisher=Libreoffice.org |access-date=24 November 2014 |archive-date=3 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903013936/https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/math/ |url-status=live }}

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| Base

| Database program, similar to Microsoft Access, with support for local and external sources.{{Cite web |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/base/ |title=LibreOffice Base |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=24 November 2014 |archive-date=14 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014100627/https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/base/ |url-status=live }}

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| image1 = LibreOffice Impress 7.1.2 (released in 2021-04, running on Linux and GNOME with the default icon set).png

| image2 = LibreOffice Math 7.1.2 (released in 2021-04, running on Linux and GNOME with the default icon set).png

| footer = Impress and Math, version 7.1.2 (released in April 2021, running on Linux with default theme and icon set)

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= Operating systems and processor architectures =

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| image1 = Libreoffice 5.3 writer MUFFIN interface.png

| caption1 = LibreOffice 5.3 Writer using the MUFFIN interface running on Ubuntu 16.04

| image2 = LibreOffice Viewer for Android screenshot.png

| caption2 = LibreOffice Viewer on Android

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LibreOffice is cross-platform software. The Document Foundation officially supports Microsoft Windows (using the IA-32 and x86-64 architectures), macOS (ARM64 and x86-64), and Linux (ARM64, IA-32, and x86-64).{{Cite web |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/29/the-road-to-libreoffice-5-0/ |title=The road to LibreOffice 5.0 |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=29 July 2015 |website=The Document Foundation Blog |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=3 August 2015 |archive-date=30 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730031000/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/29/the-road-to-libreoffice-5-0/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2012/12/17/libreoffice-runs-on-the-raspberry-pi/ |title=LibreOffice runs on the Raspberry Pi |date=17 December 2012 |website=blog.documentfoundation.org |access-date=23 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714111200/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2012/12/17/libreoffice-runs-on-the-raspberry-pi/ |archive-date=14 July 2018 }} Ports also exist for operating systems and architectures, supported by either commercial vendors like Collabora or community members, as is the case for BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) and OpenIndiana.{{Cite web |url=https://excelturkiye.com/microsoft-office-yerine-alternatif/#2_LibreOffice |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520203700/https://excelturkiye.com/microsoft-office-yerine-alternatif/#2_LibreOffice |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 May 2013 |title=FreeBSD Ports: Editors |date=16 June 2013 |publisher=FreeBSD |access-date=16 June 2013 }}{{Cite web |url=https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/misc/libreoffice/README.html |title=The NetBSD Packages Collection: misc/libreoffice |date=18 March 2010 |publisher=Ftp.netbsd.org |access-date=24 June 2013 |archive-date=17 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517225337/http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/misc/libreoffice/README.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://openbsd.org/49.html#new |title=LibreOffice was ported to OpenBSD in time for the 4.9 release |date=1 May 2011 |publisher=Openbsd.org |access-date=15 February 2012 |archive-date=3 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303153108/http://www.openbsd.org/49.html#new |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/LibreOffice |title=LibreOffice – OpenIndiana Wiki |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713042134/https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/LibreOffice |archive-date=13 July 2018 |access-date=5 June 2016 }}

Historically, earlier versions of LibreOffice and its predecessors such as StarOffice supported platforms including Solaris on SPARC hardware. These versions are no longer maintained.

LibreOffice development has also extended to mobile and cloud platforms. A beta document viewer for Android was released in January 2015,{{Cite web |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/01/21/libreoffice-viewer-for-android/ |title=LibreOffice Viewer (Beta) now available for Android |website=The Document Foundation Blog |date=21 January 2015 |access-date=22 January 2015 |archive-date=5 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905111147/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/01/21/libreoffice-viewer-for-android/ |url-status=live }} followed by a version with basic editing support in May 2015.{{Cite web |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/05/28/the-document-foundation-announces-libreoffice-viewer-for-android/ |title=The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice Viewer for Android |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=28 May 2015 |website=The Document Foundation Blog |access-date=3 June 2015 |archive-date=1 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601031432/http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/05/28/the-document-foundation-announces-libreoffice-viewer-for-android/ |url-status=live }} In 2020, Collabora released officially supported mobile versions for Android and iOS under the Collabora Office brand.{{Cite web |url=https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2020-02-27-collabora-ios-android.html |title=Collabora Office for Phones |last=Meeks |first=Michael |date=27 February 2020 |access-date=1 March 2020 |archive-date=3 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303002212/https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2020-02-27-collabora-ios-android.html |url-status=live }} A version for ChromeOS was released in 2020 as well.

The Impress Remote app is available for multiple mobile platforms and allows users to control LibreOffice presentations remotely.

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|+ Summary of cross platform support

! Operating system

! Architectures

! Current

! Source

Android

| ARM, ARM64, x86, x86-64

| {{Yes}}

| LibreOffice, Collabora Office

BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD)

| ARM, IA-32, x86-64, others

| {{Yes}}

| Community port

ChromeOS

| ARM, ARM64, x86, x86-64

| {{Yes}}

| Collabora Office

iOS

| ARM64

| {{Yes}}

| Collabora Office

iPadOS

| ARM64

| {{Yes}}

| Collabora Office

Linux

| ARM64, IA-32, x86-64, ppc64le

| {{Yes}}

| LibreOffice, Collabora Office

macOS

| ARM64, x86-64

| {{Yes}}

| LibreOffice, Collabora Office, community port

OpenIndiana

| x86-64

| {{Yes}}

| Community port

Windows

| ARM64, IA-32, x86-64{{Cite web |title=Building LibreOffice on Windows with Cygwin and MSVC: Tips and Tricks – The Document Foundation Wiki |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=wiki.documentfoundation.org}}

| {{Yes}}

| LibreOffice, Collabora Office

= LibreOffice Online =

LibreOffice Online is the web-based version of the LibreOffice office suite, allowing users to view and edit documents through a web browser using the HTML5 <canvas> element.{{Cite web |url=https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2011-10-19.html |title=Stuff Michael Meeks is doing |last=Meeks |first=Michael |date=19 October 2011 |website=Michael Meeks' blog |access-date=1 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305134526/https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2011-10-19.html |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=live }} Development began in 2011, with contributions from Collabora and IceWarp.{{Cite news |url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/libreoffice-in-the-browser-revealed-in-2011-finally-close-to-reality/ |title=LibreOffice in the browser, revealed in 2011, finally close to reality |work=Ars Technica |access-date=14 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815175116/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/libreoffice-in-the-browser-revealed-in-2011-finally-close-to-reality/ |archive-date=2017-08-15 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |title=LibreOffice moves to the cloud to take on Office Online and Google Docs |url=http://betanews.com/2015/03/25/libreoffice-moves-to-the-cloud-to-take-on-office-online-and-google-docs/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150827065338/http://betanews.com/2015/03/25/libreoffice-moves-to-the-cloud-to-take-on-office-online-and-google-docs/ |archive-date=27 August 2015 |access-date=21 October 2015 |work=BetaNews}} A preview of the software was demonstrated in 2015,,{{Cite web |last=Nestor |first=Marius |date=1 October 2015 |title=LibreOffice Online Development Advances, Gains Image Manipulation, Advanced Toolbar |url=http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/libreoffice-online-development-advances-gains-image-manipulation-advanced-toolbar-493371.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019091720/http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/libreoffice-online-development-advances-gains-image-manipulation-advanced-toolbar-493371.shtml |archive-date=2015-10-19 |access-date=21 October 2015 |website=Softpedia}} and in December 2015, Collabora and ownCloud released a technical preview called Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE).{{Cite web |url=https://www.collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/collabora-and-owncloud-announce-partnership-and-release-code-for-libreoffice-online-developers/ |title=Collabora and ownCloud announce partnership and release CODE for LibreOffice Online developers |work=Collabora Productivity |date=15 December 2015 |access-date=24 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211045319/https://www.collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/collabora-and-owncloud-announce-partnership-and-release-code-for-libreoffice-online-developers/ |archive-date=2017-02-11 |url-status=live }} The first source code release of LibreOffice Online occurred alongside LibreOffice version 5.3 in February 2017.{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=1 February 2017 |title=The Document Foundation announces feature-rich LibreOffice 5.3 |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/02/01/the-document-foundation-announces-feature-rich-libreoffice-5-3/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128060315/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/02/01/the-document-foundation-announces-feature-rich-libreoffice-5-3/ |archive-date=28 November 2020 |access-date=3 February 2017}}{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=31 January 2018 |title=The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.0: power, simplicity, security and interoperability from desktop to cloud |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/01/31/libreoffice-6/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128045514/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/01/31/libreoffice-6/ |archive-date=28 November 2020 |access-date=2 February 2018}}

The Document Foundation does not plan to offer a hosted cloud solution similar to commercial offerings like Google Docs or Microsoft 365, due to the prohibitively high cost of running the platform. Instead, development and deployment of online solutions are handled by third-party ecosystem partners and cloud providers. TDF has expressed openness to a public LibreOffice Online service provided by a charitable organization.{{Cite web |title=Collabora deal will provide savings on Open Source office software |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/collabora-deal-will-provide-savings-on-open-source-office-software |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815135906/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/collabora-deal-will-provide-savings-on-open-source-office-software |archive-date=15 August 2017 |access-date=21 October 2015 |publisher=Government of the United Kingdom}}{{Cite web |last=Stahie |first=Silviu |date=20 October 2015 |title=UK Government Kicks Out Microsoft Office and Adopts LibreOffice |url=http://news.softpedia.com/news/uk-government-is-kicking-out-microsoft-office-and-adopts-libreoffice-494919.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815175725/http://news.softpedia.com/news/uk-government-is-kicking-out-microsoft-office-and-adopts-libreoffice-494919.shtml |archive-date=15 August 2017 |access-date=21 October 2015 |website=Softpedia}}

Therefore the task has been left to ecosystem partners, like Collabora and CIB. The first enterprise version, Collabora Online 1.0, was released in July 2016.{{Cite web |url=https://www.collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/collabora-productivity-releases-collabora-online-cool-1-0-engine-for-hosters-and-clouds/ |title=Collabora Productivity releases Collabora Online 1.0 "Engine" for Hosters and Clouds |date=2 July 2016 |website=collaboraoffice.com |access-date=1 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807182222/https://www.collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/collabora-productivity-releases-collabora-online-cool-1-0-engine-for-hosters-and-clouds/ |archive-date=2016-08-07 |url-status=live }} In the same month, Nextcloud partnered with Collabora to integrate CODE for its users.{{Cite web |url=https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-and-collabora-bring-online-office-to-everybody/ |title=Nextcloud and Collabora Bring Online Office To Everybody |date=19 July 2016 |website=nextcloud.com |access-date=17 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117174726/https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-and-collabora-bring-online-office-to-everybody/ |archive-date=2017-11-17 |url-status=live }} In 2019, CIB announced that it would offer a version, branded as "LibreOffice Online powered by CIB".{{Cite news |date=12 June 2019 |title=Press Release: LibreOffice powered by CIB product range announced |url=https://blog.cib.de/2019/06/12/press-release-libreoffice-powered-by-cib-product-range-announced/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128091730/https://blog.cib.de/2019/06/12/press-release-libreoffice-powered-by-cib-product-range-announced/ |archive-date=28 November 2019 |access-date=29 November 2019 |work=CIB Blog}}

= Supported file formats =

As its native file format to save documents for all of its applications, LibreOffice uses the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), or OpenDocument, an international standard developed jointly by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). LibreOffice also supports the file formats of most other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, through a variety of import and export filters.{{Cite web|date=8 April 2013|title=About Converting Microsoft Office Documents|url=https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/About_Converting_Microsoft_Office_Documents|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118095559/https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/About_Converting_Microsoft_Office_Documents|archive-date=18 November 2018|access-date=16 February 2014|website=LibreOffice Help|publisher=The Document Foundation}}

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|+Summary of supported file formats

Format

! Extension

! Type

! Read

! Write

! Notes

AbiWord

| ABW, ZABW

| Document

| {{yes|From 4.2}}

|

|

Adobe Flash

| SWF

| Graphics, multimedia

| {{yes}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/ |title=Impress Features |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=24 November 2014 |archive-date=3 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903144326/https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/ |url-status=live }}

| {{dropped|Up to 6.4 (Impress / Draw only){{cite web|first=Michael|last=Larabel|url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LibreOffice-7.0-Drops-Adobe-SWF|title=LibreOffice 7.0 Finally Retiring Its Adobe Flash Export Support|website=Phoronix|date=23 April 2020|access-date=2 May 2020|archive-date=1 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501165926/https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LibreOffice-7.0-Drops-Adobe-SWF|url-status=live}}{{cite web|first=Martin|last=Brinkmann|url=https://www.ghacks.net/2020/04/27/libreoffice-7-0-drops-adobe-flash-support/|title=LibreOffice 7.0 drops Adobe Flash support|website=gHacks Tech News|date=27 April 2020|access-date=2 May 2020|archive-date=28 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428223549/https://www.ghacks.net/2020/04/27/libreoffice-7-0-drops-adobe-flash-support/|url-status=live}}}}

|Support for writing the format was discontinued as Adobe Flash Player will no longer be maintained.

Adobe PageMaker

| PMD, PM3, PM4, PM5, PM6, P65

| Document, DTP

| {{yes|From 4.4}}{{Cite web |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4 |title=Libreoffice 4.4 Release Notes |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=27 October 2014 |archive-date=19 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719060419/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries |title=DLP/Libraries – The Document Foundation Wiki |access-date=12 December 2017 |archive-date=13 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213010259/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries |url-status=live }}

|

|

AppleWorks word processing

| CWK

| Document

| {{yes|From 4.1}}

|

| Formerly called ClarisWorks

Adobe Swatch Exchange

| ASE

| Color plate

| {{yes|From 5.0{{Cite web |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0 |title=LibreOffice 5.0 Release Notes |date=4 December 2015 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=23 December 2015 |archive-date=9 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009200302/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0 |url-status=live }}}}

|

|

Adobe FreeHand

| AGD, FHD

| Graphics / Vector

| {{yes}}

|

|

Apple Keynote

| KTH, KEY

| Presentation

| {{yes|From 5.0}}

|

|

Apple Numbers

| Numbers

| Spreadsheet

| {{yes|From 5.0}}

|

|

Apple Pages

| Pages

| Document

| {{yes|From 5.0}}

|

|

AportisDoc (Palm)

| PDB

| Document

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Requires Java

AutoCAD DXF

| DXF

| Graphics / CAD

| {{yes}}

|

|

BMP file format

| BMP

| Graphics / Raster

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Comma-separated values

| CSV, TXT

| Text

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

ClarisDraw

|

| Graphics / Vector

| {{yes}}

|

|

CorelDRAW 6-X7

| CDR, CMX

| Graphics / Vector

| {{yes|From 3.6}}{{Cite web |url=http://fridrich.blogspot.de/2014/04/libreoffice-coreldraw-import-filter.html |title=LibreOffice CorelDraw import filter – support of version x7 landed |date=6 April 2014 |access-date=25 August 2015 |archive-date=18 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160218123702/http://fridrich.blogspot.de/2014/04/libreoffice-coreldraw-import-filter.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.6 |title=LibreOffice 3.6: Release Notes – The Document Foundation Wiki |access-date=12 December 2017 |archive-date=19 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719174517/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.6 |url-status=live }}

|

|

Computer Graphics Metafile

| CGM

| Graphics

| {{yes}}

|

| Binary-encoded only; not those using clear-text or character-based encoding

Data Interchange Format

| DIF

| Spreadsheet

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

DBase, Clipper, VP-Info, FoxPro

| DBF

| Database

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

DocBook

| XML

| XML

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Encapsulated PostScript

| EPS

| Graphics

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Enhanced Metafile

| EMF

| Graphics / Vector / Text

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

EPUB

| EPUB

| eBook

|

| {{yes|From 6.0}}

|

FictionBook

| FB2

| eBook

| {{yes|From 4.2}}

|

|

GIMP Palette

| GPL

| Color palette

| {{yes|From 4.4}}

|

|

Gnumeric

| GNM, GNUMERIC

| Spreadsheet

| {{yes|From 5.1}}

| {{no}}

|

Graphics Interchange Format

| GIF

| Graphics / Raster

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Hangul WP 97

| HWP

| Document

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Newer documents are not supported, which requires an extension.{{Cite web |url=https://github.com/ebandal/H2Orestart |title=ebandal/H2Orestart: 한컴파일을 LibreOffice에서 읽을 수 있도록 하는 extension입니다. |access-date=2 March 2025 |website=GitHub }}

HPGL plotting file

| PLT

| Graphics

| {{yes}}

|

|

HTML

| HTML, HTM

| Document, text

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Ichitaro 8/9/10/11

| JTD, JTT

| Document

| {{yes}}

|

|

JPEG

| JPG, JPEG

| Graphics

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Lotus 1-2-3

| WK1, WKS, 123, wk3, wk4

| Spreadsheet

| {{yes}}

|

|

Lotus Word Pro

|

| Document

| {{yes}}

|

|

MacDraft

|

| Graphics / CAD

| {{yes|From 5.0}}

|

|

MacDraw

|

| Graphics / Vector

| {{yes|From 4.4}}

|

|

MacDraw II

|

| Graphics / Vector

| {{yes|From 4.4}}

|

|

Macintosh Picture File[http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fileextensions/f/pct-file.htm About.Com – PCT File] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112121939/http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fileextensions/f/pct-file.htm |date=12 January 2014 }}. Retrieved 12 January 2014.

| PCT

| Graphics

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

MacWrite Pro 1.5

|

| Document

| {{yes|From 4.1}}

|

|

MathML

| MML

| Math

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

MET

| MET

|

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft 365{{Cite web |last=McKay |first=Dave |date=2021-11-16 |title=LibreOffice vs. Microsoft Office: How Does It Measure Up? |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/764727/libreoffice-vs-microsoft-office/ |access-date=2022-12-10 |website=HowToGeek |archive-date=10 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210030552/https://www.howtogeek.com/764727/libreoffice-vs-microsoft-office/ |url-status=live }}

|DOCX, XLSX, PPTX

|Multiple formats

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft Excel 2003 XML

| XML

| Spreadsheet

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft Excel 4/5/95

| XLS, XLW, XLT

| Spreadsheet

| {{yes}}

| {{dropped|Up to 3.6}}

|

Microsoft Excel 97–2003

| XLS, XLW, XLT

| Spreadsheet

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft Excel 2007–2021

| XLSX

| Spreadsheet

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft Excel Web Query File

| IQY

| Data sources, text

| {{yes|From 5.4{{Cite web |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.4 |title=LibreOffice 5.4: Release Notes |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=30 July 2017 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126113811/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.4 |url-status=live }}}}

| {{no}}

|

Microsoft Office 2007–2021 Office Open XML

| DOCX, XLSX, PPTX

| Multiple formats

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft Pocket Excel

| PXL

| Spreadsheet

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Requires Java

Microsoft Pocket Word

| PSW

| Document

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Requires Java

Microsoft PowerPoint 97–2003

| PPT, PPS, POT

| Presentation

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007–2021

| PPTX

| Presentation

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft Publisher

| PUB

| Document, DTP

| {{yes|From 4.0}}

|

|

Microsoft RTF

| RTF

| Document

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft Word 2003 XML (WordprocessingML)

| XML

| Document

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft Word 4/5/6.0/95

| DOC, DOT

| Document

| {{yes}}

| {{dropped|Up to 3.6{{Cite web |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes/ |title=4.0 New Features and Fixes: LibreOffice |publisher=LibreOffice.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308195449/https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes/ |archive-date=8 March 2013 |access-date=29 May 2013 |quote=Dropped support for export to legacy Word and Excel (version 6.0/95) files.}}}}

|

Microsoft Word 97–2003

| DOC, DOT

| Document

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft Word 2007–2021

| DOCX

| Document

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft Word for Mac

|

| Document

| {{yes|From 4.1}}

|

| Word 1–5.1

Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0

| DOC, DOT

| Document

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Microsoft Works

| WPS, WKS, WDB

| Multiple

| {{yes}}{{Cite web |url=http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/01/25/the-document-foundation-launches-libreoffice-3-3/ |title=The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3 |last=Effenberger |first=Florian |date=25 January 2011 |publisher=Blog.documentfoundation.org |access-date=16 November 2011 |archive-date=3 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303000124/http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/01/25/the-document-foundation-launches-libreoffice-3-3/ |url-status=live }}

|

| Microsoft Works for Mac formats since 4.1{{Cite web |last=Strba |first=Fridrich |date=21 June 2013 |title=LibreOffice import filter for legacy Mac file-formats – smile and say "mwaw"! |url=http://fridrich.blogspot.de/2013/06/libreoffice-import-filter-for-legacy.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002084731/http://fridrich.blogspot.de/2013/06/libreoffice-import-filter-for-legacy.html |archive-date=2 October 2016 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=fridrich.blogspot.de}}

Microsoft Write

| WRI

| Document

| {{yes|From 5.1}}

| {{no}}

|

Microsoft Visio

| VSD, VST, VDW, VDX, VSX, VTX, VSDX, VSDM, VSSM, VSTX, VSTM

| Graphics / Vector

| {{yes|From 3.5}}{{Cite web |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5 |title=LibreOffice 3.5: Release Notes – The Document Foundation Wiki |access-date=12 December 2017 |archive-date=16 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116080113/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/14/document_foundation_libreoffice/ |title=LibreOffice debugs and buffs up to v.3.5 |last=Thomson |first=Iain |date=14 February 2012 |website=The Register |access-date=15 February 2012 |archive-date=15 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215170125/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/14/document_foundation_libreoffice/ |url-status=live }}

| {{no}}

| Most Visio file formats got support in 4.0, support for VSTX files added later in 25.2.

Netpbm format

| PGM, PBM, PPM

| Graphics / Raster

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

OpenDocument

| ODT, FODT, ODS, FODS, ODP, FODP, ODG, FODG, ODF

| Multiple formats

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Open Office Base

| ODB

| Database forms, data

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

OpenOffice.org XML

| SXW, STW, SXC, STC, SXI, STI, SXD, STD, SXM

| Multiple formats

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

PCX

| PCX

| Graphics

| {{yes}}

|

|

Photo CD

| PCD

| Presentation

| {{yes}}

|

|

Photoshop

| PSD

| Graphics

| {{yes}}

|

|

Plain text

| TXT

| Text

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Various encodings supported

Portable Document Format

| PDF

| Document

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Including hybrid PDF{{Cite web |url=https://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/how-microsoft-was-forced-open-office-200233 |title=How Microsoft was forced to open Office |last=Phipps |first=Simon |date=17 August 2012 |publisher=InfoWorld |access-date=2 January 2013 |archive-date=2 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202205232/http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/how-microsoft-was-forced-open-office-200233 |url-status=live }}

Portable Network Graphics

| PNG

| Graphics / Raster

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

QuarkXPress 3–4

| QXP

| Document, DTP

| {{yes|From 6.0}}{{Cite web |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0 |title=LibreOffice 6.0: Release Notes – The Document Foundation Wiki |access-date=12 December 2017 |archive-date=28 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128150641/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0 |url-status=live }}

|

|

Quattro Pro 6.0

| WB2, wq1, wq2

| Spreadsheet

| {{yes}}

|

|

RagTime for Mac

|

|

| {{yes|From 4.4}}

|

|

Scalable vector graphics

| SVG, SVGZ

| Graphics / Vector

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

SGV

| SGV

|

| {{yes}}

|

|

Software602 (T602)

| 602, TXT

| Document

| {{yes}}

|

|

StarOffice StarCalc 3/4/5

| SDC, VOR

| Spreadsheet

| nowrap {{yes|Dropped in 4.0,
added back in 5.3}}

| nowrap {{dropped|Up to 3.6}}

|

StarOffice StarDraw/StarImpress

| SDA, SDD, SDP, VOR

| Presentation

| {{yes|Dropped in 4.0,
added back in 5.3}}

| {{dropped|Up to 3.6}}

|

StarOffice StarMath

| SXM

| Math

| {{dropped|Up to 3.6}}

| {{dropped|Up to 3.6}}

|

StarOffice StarWriter 3/4/5

| SDW, SGL, VOR

| Document

| {{yes|Dropped in 4.0,
added back in 5.3}}

| {{dropped|Up to 3.6}}

|

Star Writer graphics

| SGF

| Graphics

| {{yes}}

|

|

Sony Broad Band eBook

| RLF

| eBook

| {{yes|From 4.4}}

|

|

SunOS Raster

| RAS

| Graphics / Raster

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

SVM

| SVM

| Graphics / Vector

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

SYLK

| SLK

| Spreadsheet, file exchange

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Tag Image File Format

| TIF, TIFF

| Graphics / Raster

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

Truevision TGA (Targa)

| TGA

| Graphics / Raster

| {{yes}}

|

|

Unified Office Format

| UOF, UOT, UOS, UOP

| Multiple

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}{{Cite web |url=http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Getting_Started/File_formats |title=File formats |website=Apache OpenOffice Wiki |publisher=Apache Software Foundation |access-date=18 November 2011 |archive-date=29 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121229230944/http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Getting_Started/File_formats |url-status=live }}

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Windows Metafile

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WordPerfect

| WPD

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WordPerfect Suite 2000/Office 1.0

| WPS

| Document

| {{yes}}

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WriteNow 4.0

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| Document

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X BitMap

| XBM

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X PixMap

| XPM

| Graphics / Raster

| {{yes}}

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Zoner Draw

| ZMF

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= Miscellaneous features =

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,{{Cite web |url=http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Showroom#OpenOffice.org |title=Tango style OpenOffice.org |date=12 September 2008 |publisher=Tango.freedesktop.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906111805/http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Showroom#OpenOffice.org |archive-date=6 September 2015 |access-date=16 November 2011}}{{Cite web |url=http://ui.openoffice.org/nonav/VisualDesign/OOo30MimeType.html |title=OpenOffice.org 3.0 icons |publisher=Ui.openoffice.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110727154913/http://ui.openoffice.org/nonav/VisualDesign/OOo30MimeType.html |archive-date=27 July 2011 |access-date=16 November 2011}} 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.{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 6.1: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601211732/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.1 |archive-date=1 June 2020 |access-date=9 August 2018 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}

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.{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 3.4 New Features and Fixes |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214213702/https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/ |archive-date=14 December 2013 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=The Document Foundation}} With version 6.2, LibreOffice includes a ribbon-style GUI, called Notebookbar, including three different views.{{Cite web |title=ReleaseNotes/6.2 |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200529154147/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.2 |archive-date=29 May 2020 |access-date=26 February 2019 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}} 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).{{Cite web |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0#Notebookbar |title=LibreOffice 6.0: Release Notes – The Document Foundation Wiki |website=wiki.documentfoundation.org |access-date=23 November 2018 |archive-date=28 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128150641/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0#Notebookbar |url-status=live }}

LibreOffice has a feature similar to WordArt called Fontwork.{{Cite web |url=https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Fontwork_For_Graphical_Text_Art |title=Fontwork For Graphical Text Art |publisher=LibreOffice |access-date=20 October 2014 |archive-date=2 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102141825/https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Fontwork_For_Graphical_Text_Art |url-status=live }} LibreOffice uses HarfBuzz for complex text layout, it was first introduced in 4.1 for Linux and 5.3 for Windows and macOS.{{Cite web |date=30 July 2013 |title=LibreOffice 4.1 ReleaseNotes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102041358/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1 |archive-date=2 January 2020 |access-date=12 August 2013 |publisher=The Document Foundation}}{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 5.3: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122114652/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3 |archive-date=22 November 2020 |access-date=23 January 2017 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation}} Fonts with OpenType, Apple Advanced Typography or SIL Graphite features can be switched by either a syntax in the Font Name input box,{{Cite web |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Smart_font_optional_features_for_Graphite_and_OpenType_fonts |title=Smart font optional features for Graphite and OpenType fonts – The Document Foundation Wiki |website=wiki.documentfoundation.org |access-date=9 March 2020 |archive-date=19 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519205908/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Smart_font_optional_features_for_Graphite_and_OpenType_fonts |url-status=live }} or the Font Features dialog from the Character dialog. 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.{{cite web|url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/Writer/PDF_Hybrid|title=FAQ – Writer|website=The Document Foundation Wiki|access-date=5 September 2020|archive-date=20 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920000746/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/Writer/PDF_Hybrid|url-status=live}}

= Licensing =

The LibreOffice project uses a dual LGPLv3 (or later) / MPL 2.0 license for new contributions to allow the license to be upgraded.{{Cite web |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/developers-2/ |title=Developers |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=30 March 2012 |archive-date=2 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402111717/http://www.libreoffice.org/developers-2 |url-status=live }} 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.{{Cite web |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/532665/ |title=A discordant symphony |last=Corbet |first=Jonathan |date=16 January 2013 |publisher=LWN.net |access-date=9 February 2013 |archive-date=24 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224021305/http://lwn.net/Articles/532665/ |url-status=live }}

= Scripting and extensions =

LibreOffice supports third-party extensions.{{Cite mailing list |url=http://extensions.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=dev&msgNo=142 |title=.oxt, .uno.pkg, .zip |date=7 July 2006 |access-date=10 August 2007 |last=Bergmann |first=Stephan |mailing-list=dev@extensions.openoffice.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505232034/http://extensions.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=dev&msgNo=142 |archive-date=5 May 2009}} {{As of|2017|07}}, the LibreOffice Extension Repository lists more than 320 extensions.{{Cite web |url=https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/ |title=Extensions – LibreOffice Extensions |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=3 January 2019 |archive-date=26 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126113439/https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions |url-status=live }} Another list is maintained by the Apache Software Foundation{{Cite web |url=https://extensions.openoffice.org/ |title=Apache OpenOffice Extensions |publisher=Apache OpenOffice |access-date=3 January 2019 |archive-date=27 April 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427152926/https://extensions.openoffice.org/ |url-status=live }} and another one by the Free Software Foundation.{{Cite web |url=https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List |title=Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List |publisher=Free Software Foundation |access-date=3 January 2019 |archive-date=23 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223000148/https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List |url-status=live }} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://api.libreoffice.org/ |title=LibreOffice API Documentation |publisher=The Document Foundation |access-date=26 June 2015 |archive-date=27 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627132848/http://api.libreoffice.org/ |url-status=live }}

= LibreOffice Basic =

LibreOffice Basic is a programming language similar to Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) but based on StarOffice Basic. It is available in Writer, Calc and Base. It is used to write small programs known as "macros", with each macro performing a different task, such as counting the words in a paragraph.{{Cite web |url=http://www.linux.com/articles/48258 |title=An introduction to OpenOffice.org Basic |last=Bain |first=Mark Alexander |website=NewsForge |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029053258/http://www.linux.com/articles/48258 |archive-date=29 October 2007 |access-date=7 September 2023}}

History

{{Panorama|image=StarOffice major derivatives.svg|height=255px|caption=A timeline of major derivatives of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org with LibreOffice in green|dir=rtl}}

= Background =

From the inception of the OpenOffice.org project in 2000, Sun Microsystems indicated that the project would eventually be managed by an independent foundation.{{Cite web |date=19 July 2000 |title=Sun Microsystems Open Sources StarOffice Technology |url=http://www.openoffice.org/press/sun_release.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111114053747/http://www.openoffice.org/press/sun_release.html |archive-date=14 November 2011 |access-date=19 January 2012 |publisher=Sun Microsystems}}{{Cite web |date=4 November 2001 |title=The OpenOffice.org Foundation |url=http://www.openoffice.org/white_papers/OOo_project/openofficefoundation.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921102841/http://www.openoffice.org/white_papers/OOo_project/openofficefoundation.html |archive-date=21 September 2013 |access-date=9 October 2013 |publisher=Sun Microsystems}} However community members frequently expressed concerns over the Sun's control of the project, especially as the company's involvement diminished over time,{{Cite web |last=Meeks |first=Michael |date=10 October 2008 |title=Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org |url=http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/ooo-commit-stats-2008.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202050329/http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/ooo-commit-stats-2008.html |archive-date=2 December 2012 |access-date=5 January 2013 |website=Stuff Michael Meeks is doing |publisher=People.gnome.org}} and was slow to accept patches or external contributions, even from corporate partners.{{Cite web |last=Yoshida |first=Kohei |date=2 October 2007 |title=History of Calc Solver |url=http://kohei.us/2007/10/02/history-of-calc-solver/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118060456/http://kohei.us/2007/10/02/history-of-calc-solver/ |archive-date=18 January 2013 |access-date=3 January 2013 |website=Roundtrip to Shanghai via Tokyo}}{{Cite news |last=Phipps |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Phipps (programmer) |date=20 May 2011 |title=OpenOffice.org and contributor agreements |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/443989/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927072255/https://lwn.net/Articles/443989/ |archive-date=27 September 2013 |access-date=16 June 2013 |publisher=LWN.net}}

To address some of these challenges, Ximian, and later Novell, maintained a patch set called ooo-build, led by developer Michael Meeks. Its goal was to simplify building OpenOffice.org on Linux and to incorporate community-submitted improvements that had not been accepted upstream by Sun.{{Cite web |date=18 October 2003 |title=About ooo-build |url=http://ooo.ximian.com/ooo-build.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031018013700/http://ooo.ximian.com/ooo-build.html |archive-date=18 October 2003 |access-date=5 January 2013 |publisher=Ximian}} Most Linux distributions used ooo-build as the default method for packaging OpenOffice.org,{{Cite web |last=James |first=Daniel |date=7 May 2007 |title=Meek not geek – Interview with Michael Meeks of OpenOffice.org |url=http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/184 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929232956/http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/184 |archive-date=29 September 2013 |access-date=1 October 2013 |website=Tux Deluxe}} and some distributions contributed directly to its development.{{Cite conference |last=Meeks |first=Michael |date=24 July 2004 |title=The World of OpenOffice |url=http://www.linuxsymposium.org/archives/OLS/Reprints-2004/Reprint-Meeks-OLS2004.pdf |conference=Linux Symposium 2004 |location=Ottawa, Ontario |volume=2 |pages=361–366 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502012130/http://www.linuxsymposium.org/archives/OLS/Reprints-2004/Reprint-Meeks-OLS2004.pdf |archive-date=2 May 2014 |access-date=17 April 2015}}

In 2007, Novell released ooo-build as a separate product called Go-oo.{{Cite web |last=Meeks |first=Michael |date=28 January 2005 |title=ooo-build 1.3.8 Announced |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/121441/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004231252/http://lwn.net/Articles/121441/ |archive-date=4 October 2013 |access-date=1 October 2013 |publisher=LWN.net}} Go-oo featured enhancements not present in the main OpenOffice.org distribution and adopted more inclusive contribution policies. These changes foreshadowed those later implemented by LibreOffice.{{Cite web |last=Hillesley |first=Richard |date=29 January 2009 |title=Healthcheck: OpenOffice: Calling a cat a dog |url=http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Calling-a-cat-a-dog-746843.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208000702/http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Calling-a-cat-a-dog-746843.html |archive-date=8 December 2013 |access-date=26 June 2013 |website=The H Open |page=4}}

In early 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation. This raised new concerns among contributors, who were wary of Oracle's broader stance on open source projects, including its lawsuit against Google over Java,{{Cite web |last=Wallen |first=Jack |date=7 September 2010 |title=Could Oracle fracture open source community? |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/could-oracle-fracture-open-source-community/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502012759/http://www.zdnet.com/could-oracle-fracture-open-source-community-2062202707/ |archive-date=2 May 2014 |access-date=8 October 2013 |publisher=ZDNet}} its apparent withdrawal of developers from OpenOffice.org,{{Cite web |last=Dölle |first=Mirko |date=4 November 2010 |title=Die Woche: Bad Company Oracle? |trans-title=The Week: Bad Company Oracle? |url=http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Woche-Bad-Company-Oracle-1130884.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024094250/http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Woche-Bad-Company-Oracle-1130884.html |archive-date=24 October 2013 |access-date=19 October 2013 |website=Heise Open Source |publisher=Heinz Heise |language=de}}{{Cite web |last=Noyes |first=Katherine |date=23 August 2010 |title=Don't Count on Oracle to Keep OpenOffice.org Alive |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/203910/dont_count_on_oracle_to_keep_openoffice_org_alive.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018100603/http://www.pcworld.com/article/203910/dont_count_on_oracle_to_keep_openoffice_org_alive.html |archive-date=18 October 2014 |access-date=12 October 2014 |website=PC World Linux Line}} and the restrictions it placed on another open source project from Sun, the OpenSolaris operating system.{{Cite web |date=28 September 2010 |title=OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation |url=http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_release.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930085933/http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_release.html |archive-date=30 September 2010 |access-date=9 November 2011 |publisher=The Document Foundation}}{{Cite news |last=Collins |first=Barry |title=OpenOffice group breaks away from Oracle |url=http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/361516/openoffice-group-breaks-away-from-oracle |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331121036/http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/361516/openoffice-group-breaks-away-from-oracle |archive-date=31 March 2012 |access-date=9 November 2011 |publisher=PC Pro}}{{Cite news |last=Clarke |first=Gavin |title=OpenOffice files Oracle divorce papers |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/openoffice_independence_from_oracle/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120802051350/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/openoffice_independence_from_oracle/ |archive-date=2 August 2012 |access-date=9 November 2011 |work=The Register}}{{Cite news |last=Paul |first=Ryan |title=Document Foundation forks OpenOffice.org, liberates it from Oracle |url=https://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/09/document-foundation-forks-openofficeorg-to-liberate-it-from-oracle.ars |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822102322/http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/09/document-foundation-forks-openofficeorg-to-liberate-it-from-oracle/ |archive-date=22 August 2012 |access-date=9 November 2011 |publisher=Ars Technica}}

This prompted growing discussions about forking the project.{{Cite web |last=van der Meijs |first=Sander |date=30 September 2010 |title=OpenOffice-coup al jaren in de maak |trans-title=OpenOffice coup years in the making |url=http://webwereld.nl/development/45256-openoffice-coup-al-jaren-in-de-maak |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055240/http://webwereld.nl/development/45256-openoffice-coup-al-jaren-in-de-maak |archive-date=21 September 2013 |access-date=6 July 2013 |website=Webwereld |language=nl}}

= The Document Foundation and LibreOffice =

On 28 September 2010, members of the OpenOffice.org community announced the formation of The Document Foundation (TDF), an independent organization to continue the development of OpenOffice.org under a more open and inclusive governance model.{{Cite web |date=28 September 2010 |title=The Document Foundation Launches LibreOffice |url=https://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf-release-announce/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001021949/https://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf-release-announce/ |archive-date=1 October 2010 |access-date=28 September 2010 |website=The Document Foundation}} Alongside the announcement, TDF introduced a fork of OpenOffice.org named LibreOffice.

TDF invited Oracle Corporation, then the steward of OpenOffice.org, to participate in the new foundation and donate the OpenOffice.org trademark. Oracle declined, leading TDF to adopt the LibreOffice name permanently.{{Cite web |last=Paul |first=Ryan |date=1 October 2010 |title=Oracle turns its back on OpenOffice.org community |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-turns-its-back-on-openoffice-org-community/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101002071948/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/oracle-turns-its-back-on-openofficeorg-community/7413 |archive-date=2 October 2010 |access-date=2 October 2010 |website=ZDNet}} Major contributors to OpenOffice.org, including Novell, Red Hat, Canonical, and Google, shifted their support to the new project.{{Cite web |date=28 September 2010 |title=The Document Foundation and LibreOffice |url=https://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/The-Document-Foundation-and-LibreOffice-1105644.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004234857/http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/The-Document-Foundation-and-LibreOffice-1105644.html |archive-date=4 October 2013 |access-date=28 September 2010 |website=The H Open}}

In April 2011, Oracle announced it would discontinue commercial development of OpenOffice.org and transition the project to a community-based model.{{Cite web |last=Chuk |first=Luke |date=1 June 2011 |title=Oracle Contributes OpenOffice.org to Apache |url=https://blogs.oracle.com/office/oracle-contributing-openofficeorg-to-apache |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605012045/https://blogs.oracle.com/office/entry/oracle_contributing_openoffice_org_to |archive-date=5 June 2011 |access-date=3 June 2011 |website=Oracle Blogs}} Two months later, Oracle donated the codebase and trademarks to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), where the project was renamed Apache OpenOffice.{{Cite web |date=1 June 2011 |title=Oracle Donates OpenOffice.org Code to The Apache Software Foundation |url=https://www.apache.org/foundation/press/2011/OracleDonatesOpenOffice.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606170709/http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/2011/OracleDonatesOpenOffice.html |archive-date=6 June 2011 |access-date=4 June 2011 |website=Apache Software Foundation}}

Meanwhile, LibreOffice continued to develop rapidly under the stewardship of TDF. It incorporated features from Go-oo and other community-maintained patches, and became the default office suite in many Linux distributions, while also expanding its presence on Windows and macOS.{{Cite web |last=Vaughan-Nichols |first=Steven J. |date=30 September 2020 |title=LibreOffice at 10: It changed the way open-source office suites work |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/libreoffice-at-10-it-changed-the-way-open-source-office-suites-work/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930123546/https://www.zdnet.com/article/libreoffice-at-10-it-changed-the-way-open-source-office-suites-work/ |archive-date=30 September 2020 |access-date=1 October 2020 |website=ZDNet}} LibreOffice receives regular updates, including new features and security fixes. According to TDF, most development is performed by ecosystem partners such as Collabora, who provide enterprise support and services around LibreOffice.

This commercial support model has contributed to higher development activity compared to Apache OpenOffice, which has struggled since 2015 to attract and retain contributors, and to issue timely security updates.

In a 2011 interview with LWN.net, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth expressed criticism of TDF, asserting that its refusal to adopt Oracle's Contributor License Agreement had undermined the OpenOffice.org project.{{Cite web |last=Edge |first=Jake |title=Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/442782/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425051821/https://lwn.net/Articles/442782/ |archive-date=25 April 2014 |access-date=7 May 2014 |publisher=LWN}} In response, former Sun Microsystems executive Simon Phipps argued that Oracle's decision to end development was a business move unrelated to LibreOffice's creation.{{Cite web |date=1 June 2011 |title=The real reasons OpenOffice.org died |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/446297/ |access-date=30 May 2025 |website=LWN.net}} LibreOffice is now widely regarded as the most actively maintained and widely used successor to OpenOffice.org.{{Cite web |last=Noyes |first=Katherine |date=24 February 2014 |title=LibreOffice Leaves OpenOffice in the Dust |url=https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/LibreOffice-Leaves-OpenOffice-in-the-Dust-81619.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018100704/http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/81619.html |archive-date=18 October 2014 |access-date=12 October 2014 |website=Linux Insider}}{{Cite web |last=Vaughan-Nichols |first=Steven J. |date=24 January 2022 |title=LibreOffice vs OpenOffice: What’s the difference? |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/libreoffice-vs-openoffice-whats-the-difference/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125010357/https://www.zdnet.com/article/libreoffice-vs-openoffice-whats-the-difference/ |archive-date=25 January 2022 |access-date=25 January 2022 |website=ZDNet}}

Versions

Since version 4.2.2, released in March 2014, LibreOffice has offered two concurrently maintained major versions in addition to development versions (such as release candidates and nightly builds).{{Cite web |last=Phipps |first=Simon |date=13 March 2014 |title=LibreOffice Gets Fresh and Stable |url=http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/simon-says/libreoffice-gets-fresh-and-stable-3569636/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916225954/http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/simon-says/libreoffice-gets-fresh-and-stable-3569636/ |archive-date=16 September 2015 |access-date=2 April 2014 |publisher=ComputerworldUK}} These versions are intended to accommodate different user needs:{{Cite web |title=Release Notes |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130204083151/http://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes |archive-date=4 February 2013 |access-date=16 February 2018 |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

  • Fresh – the most recent major version, which includes the latest features and improvements. It may contain bugs that have not yet been addressed.
  • Still – the previous major version, which has received additional bug fixes and is recommended for users prioritizing stability. Was previously called the Stable version.

Since January 2024, beginning with version 24.2.0, LibreOffice adopted a calendar-based versioning scheme. Version numbers follow a three-part format (year.month.patch), with the year and month reflection the initial or future launch date.{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=21 August 2023 |title=Announcement of LibreOffice 7.6 Community |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/08/21/libreoffice-7-6-community/ |access-date=21 August 2023 |publisher=The Document Foundation Blog}}

= Release schedule =

LibreOffice follows a time-based release schedule, with major versions released approximately every six months, typically in February and August. These release months are synchronized with other free software projects (such as GNOME) and are scheduled at least one month ahead of major Linux distribution releases.{{Cite web |title=Release Plan |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501164048/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan |archive-date=1 May 2019 |access-date=25 March 2011 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki}}

Minor "patch" updates are issued regularly for both the Fresh and Still versions to address bugs and security vulnerabilities. The Fresh version receives updates every four to six weeks until it transitions to the Still version with the release of a new Fresh version. Once designated as Still, it continues to receive updates every six to seven weeks. A version reaches its end of life roughly nine months after its initial release.

= Enterprise support =

Commercial distributions of LibreOffice with service-level agreements are provided by partner organizations, the most significant of which is Collabora.{{Cite web |date=2019-08-08 |title=CIB announces LibreOffice on the Microsoft Store |url=https://www.cib.de/cib-announces-libreoffice-on-the-microsoft-store/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217144011/https://blog.cib.de/2019/08/08/cib-announces-libreoffice-on-the-microsoft-store/ |archive-date=17 February 2021 |access-date=2021-02-07 |website=CIB blog |language=de-DE}}{{Cite web |last=Tung |first=Liam |title=Open-source LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off our Community version, you are hurting development |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-libreoffice-tells-businesses-get-off-our-community-version-you-are-hurting-development/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207141009/https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-libreoffice-tells-businesses-get-off-our-community-version-you-are-hurting-development/ |archive-date=7 February 2021 |access-date=2021-02-07 |website=ZDNet}} Since version 7.1, the standard open-source release has said that it is intended for "home users, students and non-profits", to distinguish it from enterprise-targeted versions. The Document Foundation recommends that organizations use commercially supported versions to help sustain development and has expressed concern that enterprise use of the community edition can divert volunteer resources and limit project funding.

In the 2020s, the number of commercial partner organizations decreased. In June 2023, Red Hat announced it would no longer maintain LibreOffice packages in future releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.{{Cite web |title=Red Hat to drop LibreOffice from future versions of RHEL |url=https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/15/redhat_drops_libreoffice/ |access-date=30 May 2025 |website=The Register}} Maintenance of LibreOffice packages for the related Fedora Linux was transitioned to the Fedora LibreOffice Special Interest Group.{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice Special Interest Group |url=https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/libreoffice/ |access-date=30 May 2025}}{{Cite web |title=Fedora 39 Accepted System-Wide Change: LibreOffice SIG Maintainers |url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibreOfficeSIGMaintainers |access-date=30 May 2025}} In 2021, CIB spun off its LibreOffice development and support services into a new company, Allotropia.{{Cite web |date=2021-01-14 |title=CIB spins off new allotropia software GmbH |url=https://blog.allotropia.de/2021/01/14/cib-spins-off-allotropia/ |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=allotropia software blog |language=en}} In May 2025, Collabora announced the acquisition of Allotropia, intending to combine Allotropia’s ZetaOffice and WebAssembly with its own Collabora Office and Collabora Online products.{{Cite web |date=May 2025 |title=Collabora acquires Allotropia to strengthen LibreOffice ecosystem |url=https://www.collaboraoffice.com/news/collabora-acquires-allotropia/ |access-date=30 May 2025}}

=== Release history ===

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| rowspan="5" |3.x

| {{Version|o|3.3 beta|show=}}

|28 September 2010

|Initial release based on OpenOffice.org and ooo-build{{Cite web |last=Ihlenfeld |first=Jens |date=15 October 2010 |title=Zweite Beta des Openoffice.org-Forks Libreoffice |trans-title=Second Beta of Openoffice.org-Fork LibreOffice |url=http://www.golem.de/1010/78661.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609183826/https://www.golem.de/1010/78661.html |archive-date=9 June 2019 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=Golem.de |language=de}}

|File:LibreOffice 3.3 beta 1 startup screen and about box.png

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| {{Version|o|3.3|show=}}

|25 January 2011{{Cite news |last=Camen |first=Kroc |date=25 January 2011 |title=The Document Foundation Launches LibreOffice 3.3 |url=http://www.osnews.com/story/24307/The_Document_Foundation_Launches_LibreOffice_3_3/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304223720/http://www.osnews.com/story/24307/The_Document_Foundation_Launches_LibreOffice_3_3/ |archive-date=4 March 2014 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=OSNews Inc.}}

|First version to introduce features unique to LibreOffice:{{Cite web |title=New Features |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216231605/https://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/ |archive-date=16 February 2012 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

  • SVG image import
  • Enhanced import filters for Lotus Word Pro, Microsoft Works, WordPerfect and PPTX charts{{Cite web |last=Brinkmann |first=Martin |date=25 July 2013 |title=Two days after OpenOffice 4, LibreOffice 4.1 is released |url=http://www.ghacks.net/2013/07/25/two-days-after-openoffice-4-libreoffice-4-1-is-released/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214055626/http://www.ghacks.net/2013/07/25/two-days-after-openoffice-4-libreoffice-4-1-is-released/ |archive-date=14 February 2014 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=ghacks.net}}
  • Bundled extensions, such as Presenter View in Impress
  • Colour-coded document icons
  • Support for loading and saving ODF documents in flat XML format
  • AutoCorrect now matches the case of replaced words
  • Improved RTF export
  • Support for embedding standard PDF fonts

|File:LibreOffice Calc 3.3.png

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| {{Version|o|3.4|show=}}

|3 June 2011

|New features included:{{Cite web |date=26 January 2014 |title=Release Notes 3.4 |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330101244/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.4 |archive-date=30 March 2014 |access-date=4 March 2014 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

  • Memory usage improvements
  • Improved speed in Calc, better Microsoft Excel compatibility, redesigned Move/Copy Sheet dialog{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 3.4 New Features and Fixes |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214213702/https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/ |archive-date=14 December 2013 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=The Document Foundation}}{{Cite web |date=3 June 2011 |title=The Document Foundation Announces LibreOffice 3.4.0 |url=http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/03/the-document-foundation-announces-libreoffice-3-4-0/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709234750/http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/03/the-document-foundation-announces-libreoffice-3-4-0/ |archive-date=9 July 2011 |access-date=4 March 2014 |website=The Document Foundation Blog |publisher=The Document Foundation}}
  • Improved GTK+ theme integration and font rendering in Linux.
  • Code cleanup: German comments translated to English, dead code removed
  • Reduced dependence on Java and continued migration to GNU Make{{Cite web |last=Meeks |first=Michael |date=9 May 2011 |title=LibreOffice is the future of Free Software Office suites |url=http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2011-05-09-libreoffice-fud.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808110026/https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2011-05-09-libreoffice-fud.html |archive-date=8 August 2019 |access-date=4 March 2014 |website=Michael Meeks' blog at people.gnome.org |publisher=gnome.org}}

|File:LO34movecopysheet.png

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| {{Version|o|3.5|show=}}

|14 February 2012

|New features included:

  • Import support for Microsoft Visio (.vsd) files
  • Native PostgreSQL database driver
  • Java 7 compatibility
  • AES encryption for ODF documents
  • Windows Installer package available{{Cite web |date=15 February 2014 |title=v3.5 release notes |url=http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806052108/http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5 |archive-date=6 August 2012 |access-date=4 March 2014 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation}}
  • Improved Office Open XML support{{Cite web |last=Noyes |first=Katherine |date=23 January 2012 |title=10 Things to Look Forward to in LibreOffice 3.5 |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/248580/10_things_to_look_forward_to_in_libreoffice_35.html |access-date=4 March 2014 |website=PC World}}{{dead link|date=June 2022|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}
  • Introduction of an online update checker (by default, this feature is not fully automated){{Cite news |last=Gorman |first=Michael |date=14 February 2012 |title=LibreOffice updates to version 3.5, brings grammar check, bigger Calc workbooks, and more |url=https://www.engadget.com/2012/02/14/libreoffice-releases-new-version-3-5-/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709153202/http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/14/libreoffice-releases-new-version-3-5-/ |archive-date=9 July 2014 |access-date=4 March 2014 |work=Engadget}}

|File:LibreOffice Impress 3.5.png

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| {{Version|o|3.6|show=}}

|8 August 2012

|New features included:{{Cite web |title=3.6 New Features and Updates |url=https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-6-new-features-and-fixes/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131183830/http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-6-new-features-and-fixes |archive-date=31 January 2014 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

  • Support for color scales and data bars in Calc
  • Word count displayed in the status bar
  • Option to add watermarks in PDF export
  • Ten new master pages for Impress
  • Import support for Microsoft Office SmartArt
  • Import filter for CorelDRAW documents

This was the final version to support the Windows 2000 operating system.

|File:LibreOffice-3.6-Math-WithContent-German-Windows-7.png

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| rowspan="5" |4.x

| {{Version|o|4.0|show=}}

|7 February 2013{{Cite web |date=7 February 2013 |title=The Document Foundation Announces LibreOffice 4.0 |url=http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2013/02/07/the-document-foundation-announces-libreoffice-4-0/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208094602/http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2013/02/07/the-document-foundation-announces-libreoffice-4-0/ |archive-date=8 February 2013 |access-date=4 March 2014 |website=TDF Blog |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

|New features included:

  • Import/export support for native RTF math expressions
  • Import filters for Microsoft Publisher and all versions of Visio files (Visio 1.0 to 2013){{Cite web |date=15 February 2014 |title=LibreOffice 4.0 ReleaseNotes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0#Filters |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518033343/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0#Filters |archive-date=18 May 2017 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=The Document Foundation}}
  • Improved load times for XLSX files and various DOCX enhancements
  • Added support for CMIS
  • Integration of Firefox Personas{{Cite news |date=14 January 2013 |title=LibreOffice 4.0 RC1 supports Firefox-compatible themes |url=http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LibreOffice-4-0-RC1-supports-Firefox-compatible-themes-1783133.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207004958/http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LibreOffice-4-0-RC1-supports-Firefox-compatible-themes-1783133.html |archive-date=7 December 2013 |access-date=4 March 2014 |work=The H Open: News and Features H-online.com |publisher=Heinz Heise}}{{Cite web |last=Holesovsky |first=Jan (Kendy) |date=10 January 2013 |title=LibreOffice 4.0: Use Firefox Personas in your favorite office suite |url=http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/blog/archives/permalinks/2013-01-10T17_58_34.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114153612/http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/blog/archives/permalinks/2013-01-10T17_58_34.html |archive-date=14 January 2013 |access-date=4 March 2014 |website=Artax (Linux server) at the Karlin computer lab, Faculty of Math and Physics |publisher=Charles University in Prague}}
  • PDF import, Presenter Console, and Python scripting provider made core features
  • Writer gained support for comments on text ranges

|File:LibreOffice4.0 Writer--Knoppix7.0.5.png

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| {{Version|o|4.1|show=}}

|25 July 2013 (final){{Cite web |date=19 February 2014 |title=Release Plan / 4.1 |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/4.1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510014901/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/4.1 |archive-date=10 May 2013 |access-date=4 March 2014 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |date=30 July 2013 |title=LibreOffice 4.1 ReleaseNotes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102041358/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1 |archive-date=2 January 2020 |access-date=12 August 2013 |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

  • Sidebar
  • Improved image rotation{{Cite web |last=Scherschel |first=Fabian |date=28 May 2013 |title=LibreOffice 4.1.0 Beta 1 arrives with over a thousand changes |url=http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LibreOffice-4-1-0-Beta-1-arrives-with-over-a-thousand-changes-1872242.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207075525/http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LibreOffice-4-1-0-Beta-1-arrives-with-over-a-thousand-changes-1872242.html |archive-date=7 December 2013 |access-date=4 March 2014 |website=The H Open |publisher=Heinz Heise}}
  • Gradient backgrounds
  • Embedding fonts in documents
  • Import large HTML documents with more than 64,000 table cells
  • Import/export of charts to ODC files and export to various vector formats
  • OOXML and RTF bugfixes and enhancements,
  • Basic implementation of EMF+ metafiles.
  • Import of legacy Mac text formats (Write Now, MacWrite Pro, AppleWorks){{Cite web |last=Strba |first=Fridrich |date=21 June 2013 |title=LibreOffice import filter for legacy Mac file-formats – smile and say "mwaw"! |url=http://fridrich.blogspot.de/2013/06/libreoffice-import-filter-for-legacy.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002084731/http://fridrich.blogspot.de/2013/06/libreoffice-import-filter-for-legacy.html |archive-date=2 October 2016 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=fridrich.blogspot.de}}{{Cite news |last=Walker-Morgan |first=Dj |date=24 June 2013 |title=LibreOffice 4.1's first release candidate arrives |url=http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LibreOffice-4-1-s-first-release-candidate-arrives-1895243.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207074927/http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LibreOffice-4-1-s-first-release-candidate-arrives-1895243.html |archive-date=7 December 2013 |access-date=4 March 2014 |work=The H |publisher=Heinz Heise}}
  • Layout via Core Text for OSX and HarfBuzz for Linux

|File:LibreOffice 4.1.5 sidebar and text frame.png

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| {{Version|o|4.2|show=}}

|30 January 2014

|New features include:The Document Foundation: [https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.2 LibreOffice 4.2 ReleaseNotes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927003601/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.2|date=27 September 2013}}.

  • Calc performance improvements{{Cite web |date=15 August 2013 |title=Shared formula to reduce memory usage |url=http://kohei.us/2013/08/15/shared-formula-to-reduce-memory-usage/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021142507/https://kohei.us/2013/08/15/shared-formula-to-reduce-memory-usage/ |archive-date=21 October 2020 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=kohei.us}} and OpenCL for calculations via the graphics card{{Cite news |last=Larabel |first=Michael |date=29 October 2013 |title=LibreOffice Lands A Ton of GPU OpenCL Functions |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ5OTA |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301115454/http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ5OTA |archive-date=1 March 2014 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=Phoronix}}
  • Start Center with file lists
  • New set of monochrome icons, "Sifr"
  • Import filter for Apple Keynote and AbiWord files{{Cite web |date=13 January 2014 |title=AbiWord Import filter |url=http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-4-2&id=5a21b3ee198cefc1f4081ff4f99c1752c4bded8f |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202100503/http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-4-2&id=5a21b3ee198cefc1f4081ff4f99c1752c4bded8f |archive-date=2 February 2014 |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=freedesktop.org}}
  • IAccessible2 (IA2) in Windows version
  • Embedded Firebird database engine for Base (experimental)

|File:LibreOffice 4.2 Start Center.pngFile:LibreOffice 4.2.1.1 character border, sifr icons.png

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| {{Version|o|4.3|show=}}

|30 July 2014

|New features include:{{Cite web |date=3 March 2014 |title=LibreOffice 4.3 ReleaseNotes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720213415/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.3 |archive-date=20 July 2019 |access-date=4 March 2014 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

  • Brand new drawingML-based DOCX import/export filter for shapes and TextFrames
  • Improved PDF import
  • Improved handling of Microsofts's Office Open XML format
  • Non-printing characters are displayed in a different color
  • Paragraphs in Writer can now be over 65,536 characters (up to 2 GB)
  • The default icon set has been updated
  • Toolbar background is now rendered natively on Mac OS X
  • Comments can be printed in the margins
  • Data fields in Calc pivot tables can now be set to columns
  • Presentations can have OpenGL 3D objects

|File:LibreOffice 4 3 Writer.png

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| {{Version|o|4.4|show=}}

|29 January 2015

|New features include:{{Cite web |title=Libreoffice 4.4 Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719060419/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4 |archive-date=19 July 2019 |access-date=27 October 2014 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

  • Sidebar now enabled by default in Writer, Calc and Draw
  • Possibility of connection directly to OneDrive and SharePoint 2010/2013 directly from LibreOffice
  • Allowing Draw to import Adobe PageMaker files
  • The ability to digitally sign PDF files in Windows
  • Toolbar buttons in Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw have been reorganized and improved
  • New color selector:
  • Shows recently used document colors
  • Support for different color palettes and for .gpl GIMP palette format
  • Allows directly opening the color picker and choose another color
  • Added the ability to import files from MacDraw, MacDraw II and RagTime for Mac (v. 2–3) in Draw and Writer
  • Firefox Themes improvements
  • Added new fonts: Caladea and Carlito

|File:Libreoffice Writer 4.4 - A dream within a dream.png

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| rowspan="5" |5.x

| {{Version|o|5.0|show=}}

|5 August 2015{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=29 July 2015 |title=The road to LibreOffice 5.0 |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/29/the-road-to-libreoffice-5-0/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730031000/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/29/the-road-to-libreoffice-5-0/ |archive-date=30 July 2015 |access-date=3 August 2015}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |date=4 December 2015 |title=LibreOffice 5.0 Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009200302/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0 |archive-date=9 October 2019 |access-date=23 December 2015 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

; Writer

:

  • Sidebar previews styles as formatted (;pictured;);
  • Emoji support in 22 languages, including shortcodes for symbols and numerous other replacements; :keyboard: becomes ⌨
  • Images can be cropped;
  • Text highlighting and shading compatible with MS Word;
  • Improved import of comments (annotations) for text ranges in binary .doc files;
  • Equations in early RTF and DOC formats imported as editable math objects;
  • Apple Pages '09 or older import.

; Calc

:

  • Added UI to conditional formatting;
  • Improvements to scientific formatting of cells;
  • Import of Lotus 1-2-3 (.wk3 and .wk4), Quattro Pro (.wq1 and .wq2), and Apple Numbers '09 or earlier (basic spreadsheets for ;Numbers;).

; Math

:

  • Equations and their parts can be given 15 basic colors (;see picture;).

; Draw

:

  • Import of MacDraft (v1) and ClarisDraw files.

; Core and filters

:

  • When e-mailing, maintain document invisible content;
  • PDF export supports Time-Stamp Protocol (RFC 3161);
  • MS Works import: Add dialog to ask for text encoding;
  • Support for Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase) color palettes;
  • LibreOffice Expert Configuration now searchable.

|File:LibreOffice 5.0.3 (et) Sifr välimus, Stiilid külgkast.png

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| {{Version|o|5.1|show=}}

|10 February 2016{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=10 February 2016 |title=The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.1 |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/02/10/the-document-foundation-announces-libreoffice-5-1/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610190747/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/02/10/the-document-foundation-announces-libreoffice-5-1/ |archive-date=10 June 2020 |access-date=10 February 2016}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |date=10 February 2016 |title=LibreOffice 5.1 Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190613152636/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.1 |archive-date=13 June 2019 |access-date=10 February 2016 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

; Writer

:

  • A Styles menu has been added to the main menus.

; Calc

:

  • A Sheet menu has been added to the main menus.

; Impress

:

  • A Slide menu has been added to the main menus.

; Math

:

  • The Math module now has a new item "Import MathML from Clipboard".

; Core and filters

:

  • Support Unicode character input with {{key press|Alt|X}} on Windows
  • PNG export in Writer, Calc and Impress;
  • Import of the following formats supported: Gnumeric, Microsoft Write, Apple Keynote 6

|File:LibreOffice Writer 5.1 Breeze.png

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| {{Version|o|5.2|show=}}

|3 August 2016{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=3 August 2016 |title=LibreOffice 5.2 "fresh" released, for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/08/03/libreoffice-5-2-fresh-released-for-windows-mac-os-and-gnulinux/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126005336/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/08/03/libreoffice-5-2-fresh-released-for-windows-mac-os-and-gnulinux/ |archive-date=26 November 2020 |access-date=9 September 2016}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 5.2 Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325190537/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.2 |archive-date=25 March 2016 |access-date=23 January 2016 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

; Writer

:

  • New drawing tools
  • New button for showing/hiding track changes toolbar
  • Single Toolbar Mode

; Calc

:

  • New drawing tools
  • Pressing {{key press|Shift|Return}} in the multiline input to insert a new line
  • Single Toolbar Mode
  • Option to delete border from adjacent cells too in the borders tab of "Format Cells" dialog
  • Freeze Rows and Columns button became a split button and added "Freeze First Row" and "Freeze first Column" options in that button
  • Extensive function tooltips

; Impress

:

  • Quick access to slide and page properties in a new 'Slide' and 'Page' content panel in the 'Properties' sidebar tab
  • Exporting to PDF only notes pages

; Filters

:

  • Better import of DOCX and RTF linked graphic into LibreOffice Writer
  • Import of Microsoft Word for DOS files

; GUI

:

  • Print to File available within the list of printers in Print dialog
  • Video clips, charts and OLE objects will resize proportionately by default
  • Improved resizing behavior for images, videos and OLE objects
  • Simplification of Character spacing
  • "Save as Template" is now available in the Save toolbar button dropdown
  • Added Find Previous button
  • Added Icon View and buttons for switching between modes at Remote Files dialog, as well as supporting Google Drive's Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
  • New user interface for Template Manager

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| {{Version|o|5.3|show=}}

|1 February 2017{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=1 February 2017 |title=The Document Foundation announces feature-rich LibreOffice 5.3 |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/02/01/the-document-foundation-announces-feature-rich-libreoffice-5-3/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128060315/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/02/01/the-document-foundation-announces-feature-rich-libreoffice-5-3/ |archive-date=28 November 2020 |access-date=3 February 2017}}

|Type 1 font support dropped.{{Cite web |last=Byfield |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Byfield |date=1 March 2017 |title=LibreOffice drops Type 1 font support |url=http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/LibreOffice-drops-Type-1-font-support |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225030945/http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/LibreOffice-drops-Type-1-font-support |archive-date=25 December 2018 |access-date=24 December 2018 |website=Linux Magazine |publisher=Medialinx AG}}

New features include:{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 5.3: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122114652/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3 |archive-date=22 November 2020 |access-date=23 January 2017 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

; Writer

:

  • New dialog for quickly jump to another page
  • Implement table styles
  • New drawing tools for arrows
  • A toolbar button for small capitals

; Calc

:

  • New drawing tools for arrows
  • Improve saving WEEKNUM field behavior to ODF
  • New options for fraction number formats
  • Median is added to functions available in pivot tables
  • New option for merging non empty cells

; Impress

:

  • Images inserted via Photo Album can be linked in the document
  • Slide properties content panel in sidebar for master slide mode
  • Opening Template Selector at startup

; Draw

:

  • New arrow endings, including Crow's foot notation's ones.

; Base

:

  • Upgrade Firebird to version 3.0.0

; Text Layout

:

  • New cross-platform text layout engine that uses HarfBuzz for consistent text layout on all platforms, also improved text layout on macOS and Windows.
  • Improved and consistent calculation of inter-line spacing across platforms
  • Enable vertical "left to right" block direction for traditional Mongolian and Manchu

; Filters

:

  • Multiple improvements in Open XML, PDF and DOC filters
  • StarOffice StarWriter, StarCalc and StarDraw/StarImpress files can again be imported

; GUI

:

  • Revamped the Extension Manager dialog
  • Redesign of the Colors, Gradients, Hatching and Bitmap tabs and the addition of a Pattern tab
  • Introduction of the Page Deck in the sidebar in Writer
  • Added "Import Bitmap" functionality to the Area Content Panel found in the Properties deck
  • Added Styles Preview checkbox functionality to the Styles & Formatting Sidebar Deck
  • Introduction of the new "Media Playback Panel" found in Properties deck when Media is selected
  • Introduction of the "Default Shapes Panel" in the new Shapes Deck for Draw

; Online

:

  • First source code release of LibreOffice Online

; Experimental features

:

  • Added four toolbar modes to make it easy for users to switch the visible toolbars

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| {{Version|o|5.4|show=}}

|28 July 2017{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=28 July 2017 |title=LibreOffice 5.4 released with new features for Writer, Calc and Impress |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/07/28/libreoffice-5-4/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123011136/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/07/28/libreoffice-5-4/ |archive-date=23 January 2021 |access-date=30 July 2017}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 5.4: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126113811/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.4 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |access-date=30 July 2017 |website=The Document Foundation Wiki |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

; Writer

:

  • Importing AutoText from Microsoft Word DOTM templates
  • Preserving full structure of numbered and bulleted lists while exporting or pasting them as plain text
  • Creating custom watermarks via Format menu
  • New context menu items have been added for working with sections, footnotes, endnotes and styles

; Calc

:

  • Adding support for pivot charts, which use data from pivot tables. When the table is updated, the chart is automatically updated as well.
  • Menu commands to show, hide and delete all comments
  • Priority of conditional formatting rules can be changed with new up/down buttons
  • Extra sheet protection options have been added, to optionally allow insertion or deletion of rows and columns
  • CSV export settings are now remembered

; Impress & Draw

:

  • Allowing specify fractional angles while duplicating an object

; Core

:

  • A new standard colour palette has been included, based on the RYB colour model
  • Support OpenPGP keys for signing ODF documents on Linux
  • Added support for ECDSA keys on Linux and macOS
  • Signature status showing with colored infobars

; Filters

:

  • File format compatibility has been improved with better support for EMF vector images
  • Using PDFium to render imported PDF files

; Online

:

  • Responsive design and read-only mode for the document iframe added
  • Performance and rendering improvements

This was the last version to support the Windows XP and Vista operating system.{{Cite web |date=31 January 2018 |title=LibreOffice 6.0: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0#Windows |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128150641/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0#Windows |archive-date=28 November 2020 |access-date=13 April 2018}}

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| {{Version|o|6.0|show=}}

|31 January 2018{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=31 January 2018 |title=The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.0: power, simplicity, security and interoperability from desktop to cloud |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/01/31/libreoffice-6/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128045514/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/01/31/libreoffice-6/ |archive-date=28 November 2020 |access-date=2 February 2018}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=7 February 2018 |title=Wednesday Community No. 4 |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/02/07/wednesday-community-4/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805112201/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/02/07/wednesday-community-4/ |archive-date=5 August 2020 |access-date=8 February 2018 |publisher=The Document Foundation Blog}}

; Writer

:

  • Add Form menu in menubar
  • Input field behavior improves
  • Implement rotation of images to any angle
  • Use ODT and XLSX files as mail merge data source
  • New default table style
  • "Grammar By" spell checking

; Calc

:

  • 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

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| {{Version|o|6.1|show=}}

|8 August 2018{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=8 August 2018 |title=The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.1, a major release which shows the power of a large and diverse community of contributors |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/08/08/libreoffice-6-1/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526112002/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/08/08/libreoffice-6-1/ |archive-date=26 May 2020 |access-date=9 August 2018}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 6.1: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601211732/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.1 |archive-date=1 June 2020 |access-date=9 August 2018 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}

; Writer

:

  • Multiple improves for Ruby characters
  • Support generating signature line via Insert menu
  • Add localized settings for tab scopes and caption order
  • Multiple improves to EPUB export

; Calc

:

  • Sorting images anchored to Calc cells

; Draw

:

  • Added New Page menu item

; Base

:

  • HSQLDB database engine is still used by default, but Firebird engine is used by default when experimental mode is turned on.

; Core / General

:

  • New default order for Traditional and Simplified Chinese fonts
  • Reworked Areafill backgrounds
  • New RYB Standard palette, based on Itten RYB color ring theory providing Red, Yellow, Blue primaries
  • New set of default gradients
  • New application icons
  • Colibre and Karasa Jaga icon themes added

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| {{Version|o|6.2|show=}}

|7 February 2019{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=7 February 2019 |title=The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.2 with NotebookBar, the office suite which offers the most flexible user experience |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/02/07/libreoffice-6-2/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123011148/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/02/07/libreoffice-6-2/ |archive-date=23 January 2021 |access-date=26 February 2019}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |title=ReleaseNotes/6.2 |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200529154147/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.2 |archive-date=29 May 2020 |access-date=26 February 2019 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}

; Writer

:

  • Copy and paste spreadsheet data directly in an existing table
  • UTF-8 and UTF-16 text file can be saved without byte order mark (BOM)

; Calc

:

  • Support Signature Line in the spreadsheet
  • Data Validation supports custom formulas
  • Do multivariate regression analysis via regression tool
  • Add the REGEX function to match or replace text with regular expression

; Impress and Draw

:

  • Multiple improvements on animation
  • Add a couple of text related drawing styles
  • Add Table submenu to menu Format in Draw

; Base

:

  • Embedded Firebird database engine becomes available in public
  • Firebird Migration Assistant creates a backup copy of content for migration
  • MySQL C++ connector is replaced with MariaDB C connector

; BASIC

:

  • Add fully support for Firebird RDBMS

; Core / General

:

  • Signing Signature Lines with an image of handwritten signature
  • Add Source Serif Pro font

; Filters

:

  • Add support for exporting OOXML gradient, bitmap and pattern properties for chart
  • Implement OOXML agile encryption

; GUI

:

  • Notebookbar becomes available in public
  • Add three SVG based icons styles
  • Added Minimum and Maximum labels for some conditions in Conditional formatting dialog
  • Add a dialog to switch font feature

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| {{Version|o|6.3|show=}}

|8 August 2019{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=8 August 2019 |title=The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.3 |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/08/08/tdf-announces-libreoffice-63/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205113249/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/08/08/tdf-announces-libreoffice-63/ |archive-date=5 February 2021 |access-date=10 August 2019}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 6.3: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205113237/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.3 |archive-date=5 February 2021 |access-date=21 March 2020 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}

; Writer

:

  • AutoCorrect exception list function has been extended to avoid auto-capitalization in words like mRNA, iPhone, fMRI
  • Add "Send Outline to Clipboard" button to Navigator → Context Menu
  • New bottom-to-top, left-to-right writing direction in table cells and text frames
  • Support importing charts from DOCX drawingML group shapes
  • New interface add Word form controls

; Calc

:

  • New UNO API to let cell anchored graphics resize with the cell
  • New Russian ruble currency symbol () to currency formats
  • New drop-down widget into formula bar instead old tool Sum
  • New checkbox to trim input range to the actual data content
  • Add With replacement and Keep order checkboxes for Sampling
  • FOURIER() function to computes discrete Fourier transform [DFT] of an input array

; Impress and Draw

:

  • Various improvements for importing SmartArt from PPTX files

; Base

:

  • Firebird Migration Assistant is enabled by default

; Chart

:

  • Add palette selection to options charts default colors

; Math

:

  • Introduce attributes harpoon and wideharpoon for an alternative representation of vectors

; Core / General

:

  • LibreOffice TWAIN module can work on both 32-bit and 64-bit on Windows
  • New UNO command to insert narrow no-break space via keyboard shortcut
  • Tip-Of-The-Day dialog shows useful information once per day on startup
  • What's-New infobar pointing to the release notes after update
  • Sentence selection (triple click) is available for keyboard customization
  • Support redacting documents
  • Support Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) outside macOS

; Filters

:

  • Various improvements on EMF+, PDF and OOXML filters

; GUI

:

  • Tabbed Compact UI is available in public
  • Contextual Single UI is available in public

This version removed support for Firefox personas.

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| {{Version|o|6.4|show=}}

|29 January 2020{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=29 January 2020 |title=Performance-focused LibreOffice 6.4 is available for download |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/01/29/libreoffice-6-4/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129121755/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/01/29/libreoffice-6-4/ |archive-date=29 January 2020 |access-date=29 January 2020}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 6.4: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129153449/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.4 |archive-date=29 January 2020 |access-date=29 January 2020 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}

; Writer

:

  • Option to mark comments as resolved in Writer
  • The bottom-to-top, left-to-right text direction is available in Writer Text Frames
  • Comments on Writer images and charts
  • New Paste Special menu options for pasting table data into tables

; Calc

:

  • The columns/rows headers are drawn flat now
  • Password length no longer limited to 15 symbols for XLSX files
  • Whole Sheet Export setting of the PDF export options

; Impress & Draw;

  • Added 'Remove Hyperlink' to context menu
  • Added 'Consolidate Text' to combine multiple selected textboxes into one
  • Interaction now only executed in presentation mode
  • Image Maps now respect the setting to require Ctrl+Click to follow the hyperlink
  • Hyperlink in Image Maps now work in presentation mode

; Base

:

  • Access2Base API for Base users can be invoked from Python

; BASIC

:

  • Implement Save As Word 2000 and Save As for Word.VBA document

; Core / General

:

  • Internal Paths are now displayed in the UI
  • Added checkbox to enable/disable sending crash reports to The Document Foundation
  • Hyperlink context menus were unified
  • Added QR Code Generator

; GUI

:

  • Document thumbnails at the Start Center have an icon overlaid to indicate the module
  • Added Table panel to Writer's Sidebar

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| rowspan="7" |7.x

| {{Version|o|7.0|show=}}

|5 August 2020{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=5 August 2020 |title=Announcement of LibreOffice 7.0 |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/08/05/announcement-of-libreoffice-7-0/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809155119/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/08/05/announcement-of-libreoffice-7-0/ |archive-date=9 August 2020 |access-date=14 August 2020}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 7.0: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808130354/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.0 |archive-date=8 August 2020 |access-date=8 August 2020 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}

; Writer

:

  • Implemented a padded numbering in Writer's lists
  • Implemented support for semi-transparent text
  • 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

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| {{Version|o|7.1|show=}}

|3 February 2021{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=2021-02-03 |title=LibreOffice 7.1 Community released by The Document Foundation |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/03/libreoffice-7-1-community/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430175519/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/03/libreoffice-7-1-community/ |archive-date=30 April 2021 |accessdate=2021-08-19 |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 7.1: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229100259/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.1 |archive-date=29 December 2020 |access-date=16 December 2020 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}} 50x50px Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported {{Cite web |title=Deed – Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported – Creative Commons |url=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222170930/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |archive-date=22 February 2011 |access-date=25 November 2022}} license.

; Writer

:

  • 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 that added experimental support for the Windows ARM64 platform.

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| {{Version|o|7.2|show=}}

|19 August 2021{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=2021-08-19 |title=LibreOffice 7.2 Community is strong on interoperability |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/08/19/libreoffice-7-2-community/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210830095305/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/08/19/libreoffice-7-2-community/ |archive-date=30 August 2021 |accessdate=2021-08-19 |publisher=The Document Foundation}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 7.2: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509062110/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2 |archive-date=9 May 2021 |access-date=8 May 2021 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}

; Writer

:

  • Background fills can cover whole pages, beyond margins
  • Page styles can now have a gutter margin
  • Mail merge shows a warning about nonexistent data sources
  • RDF metadata in Style Inspector
  • Custom color metadata field shadings

; Calc

:

  • Calc now can filter by color in AutoFilter
  • HTML tables listed in the External Data dialogue now show captions
  • "Fat cross" cursor available in the options
  • Type can be selected in "Moving Average" trend lines

; Impress & Draw

:

  • New templates: Candy, Freshes, Grey Elegant, Growing Liberty, Yellow Idea
  • Multiple columns now available in text boxes
  • Direct access to the scaling factor via the status bar

; Math

:

  • Scaling the code input box

; General

:

  • Popup list to search for menu commands
  • Scrollable style picker in the NotebookBar
  • Fontwork panel in the Sidebar
  • New list view for the templates dialog
  • Built-in "X-ray"-like UNO object inspector

This is the first version to provide experimental support for Apple Silicon-based ARM Macs.

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| {{Version|o|7.3|show=}}

|3 February 2022

|New features include:{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 7.3: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207083121/http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.3 |archive-date=7 February 2022 |access-date=20 August 2022 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}

; Writer

:

  • 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.

; Impress & Draw

:

  • New screen sizes compatible with PowerPoint.

; Core / General

:

  • New options to generate one-dimensional barcodes.
  • New WebDAV/HTTP UCP based on libcurl.
  • Unified line width options.

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| {{Version|o|7.4|show=}}

|18 August 2022

|New features include:{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 7.4: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824072927/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.4 |archive-date=24 August 2022 |access-date=20 August 2022 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}

; Writer

:

  • Supports clearing breaks from Word for improvement layout fidelity.
  • Allow to view tracked changes for read-only documents.
  • Tracked footnote deletion and insertion are visible in the footnote area.
  • Supports rich text, checkbox content controls, dropdown, picture and date content controls from Word natively
  • Edited lists show original numbers in change tracking.
  • New typographic settings for hyphenation.
  • Supports remote LanguageTool APIs for grammar checking.

; Calc

:

  • Supports sparklines
  • Allow to edit up to 16,384 columns.
  • The height of the formula bar can be stored into the document.
  • Extra functions in drop-down AutoSum widget.
  • New menu item to search for sheet names.

; Impress & Draw

:

  • New support for document themes.
  • Support using slide background as shape fill for PPTX interoperability.

; Core / General

:

  • Added support for WebP and EMZ/WMZ images.
  • The configuration now remembers whether recent documents were opened read-only or editable.
  • Help pages for the ScriptForge scripting library.

; Filters

:

  • Support import textboxes in group shapes for DOCX filters
  • Added "glue points" to some basic shapes for PPTX filters
  • Field type of Numeric, Currency, Date and Time forms are exported to PDF
  • Various additions for EMF/WMF import.
  • Add support for OfficeArtBlip TIFF format.

; GUI

:

  • The Navigator can scroll to the item on selection.
  • Search field for the Extension Manager.
  • Experimental dark mode support for Windows 10 and Windows 11.
  • Dark variant for Colibre icon theme.

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| {{Version|o|7.5|show=}}

|2 February 2023

|New features include:{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=2 February 2023 |title=The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 7.5 Community |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/02/02/tdf-announces-libreoffice-75-community/ |access-date=3 February 2023 |publisher=The Document Foundation Blog}}{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 7.5: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.5 |access-date=3 February 2023 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}

; Writer

:

  • Objects can be marked as decorative, for better accessibility
  • New types added to content controls, which also improve the quality of PDF forms
  • A new automatic accessibility checker option has been added to the Tools menu
  • Initial machine translation is available, based on DeepL translate APIs

; Calc

:

  • Add support for Kamenický and Mazovia encodings
  • Data tables are supported in charts
  • The Function Wizard now lets you search by descriptions
  • "Spell out" number formats have been added
  • Conditional formatting conditions are now case insensitive
  • Correct behavior when entering numbers with a single prefix quote (')
  • Paste Special of cells now remembers last used settings between sessions

; Impress & Draw

:

  • New set of default table styles, and creation of table styles
  • Table styles can be customized, saved as master elements and exported
  • Objects can be drag-and-dropped in the navigator
  • It is now possible to crop inserted videos in a slide and still play them
  • The presenter console can also run as a normal window instead of fullscreen

; Core / General

:

  • Added support for rotate and zoom gestures when using touchpads
  • Allow searching for combining marks from so-called complex scripts
  • New application and MIME-type icons, more colorful and vibrant
  • The Start Center can filter documents by type
  • PDF Export added new options and features
  • Support for font embedding on macOS
  • Support variable fonts for printing and exporting to PDF
  • Addition of a zoom slider at the bottom right of the macro editor

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| {{Version|o|7.6|show=}}

|21 August 2023

|New features include:{{Cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=21 August 2023 |title=Announcement of LibreOffice 7.6 Community |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/08/21/libreoffice-7-6-community/ |access-date=21 August 2023 |publisher=The Document Foundation Blog}}{{Cite web |title=LibreOffice 7.6: Release Notes |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.6 |access-date=21 August 2023 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}

; Writer

:

  • 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 CJK punctuations encoded in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block
  • Categorized link targets when linking to a presentation

; GUI

:

  • Documents in the Start Center can now be pinned to show them at the beginning of the recently opened document list

; 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.

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| rowspan="2" |24.x

| {{Version|o|24.2|show=}}

|31 January 2024{{cite web |title=Release Plan 24.2 – the Document Foundation Wiki |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/24.2}}{{cite web |date=31 January 2024 |title=LibreOffice 24.2 Community available for all operating systems |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/01/31/libreoffice-24-2/}}

|New features include:{{Cite web |last=Brinkmann |first=Martin |date=2024-01-31 |title=LibreOffice 24.2 released: enables automatic recovery of documents – gHacks Tech News |url=https://www.ghacks.net/2024/01/31/libreoffice-24-2-released-enables-automatic-recovery-of-documents/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240224231641/https://www.ghacks.net/2024/01/31/libreoffice-24-2-released-enables-automatic-recovery-of-documents/ |archive-date=2024-02-24 |access-date=2024-02-24 |website=gHacks Technology News |language=en-US}}{{cite web |title=ReleaseNotes/24.2 – the Document Foundation Wiki |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.2}}

; Writer

:

  • "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
  • {{Key press|Alt|NumPad}} codes support for Windows allow full Unicode range
  • Introduced additional editable metadata fields Contributor, Coverage, Identifier, Publisher, Relation, Rights, Source, Type.
  • Support "Drawing Canvas" object from DOCX files
  • Implement ODF Wholesome Encryption
  • Support SVG OOXML extension

; GUI

:

  • 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

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| {{Version|co|24.8|show=}}

|22 August 2024{{cite web |date=22 August 2024 |title=LibreOffice 24.8, for the privacy-conscious office suite user |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/08/22/libreoffice-248/ |access-date=25 August 2024}}

|This was the first version to support Windows PCs based on ARM processors.{{cite web |title=ReleaseNotes/24.8 |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.8 |access-date=25 August 2024 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}

New features included:

; Writer

  • Enhanced comment panel resizing and bullet selection
  • Improved hyperlink and Find UI, with new sidebar integration
  • Navigator improvements: cross-reference drag-and-drop, broken image indicators, and footnote/endnote deletion
  • Expanded hyphenation controls, including exclusions and compound word support

; Calc

  • Added advanced spreadsheet functions (e.g. FILTER, XLOOKUP, SEQUENCE)
  • Support for OOXML pivot table cell formatting import/export
  • PDF export enhancements and case-sensitive data validation
  • Sheet protection and comment handling improvements

; Impress

  • Live slideshow updates across screens
  • Enhanced slide scrolling and note viewing in Normal view
  • Faster PPTX import with complex shapes

; Draw

  • Support tiling patterns in imported PDF files
  • Hovering over a layer's tab highlights the objects it contains

; Base

  • Improved Firebird database reliability and MS Access (.mdb) connectivity via OLEDB

; Chart

  • Support for “Pie-of-Pie” and “Bar-of-Pie” sub-charts
  • Enhanced character formatting in chart elements

; General

  • Unicode glyph filtering in Special Characters dialog
  • Improved support for diacritics and accessibility (screen reader announcements)
  • Retains font/background/highlight color selections across sessions
  • New password-based ODF encryption mode
  • Option to exclude personal metadata from exports
  • Improved bullet defaults, layout ratio controls, and screen reader support

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| rowspan="1" |25.x

| {{Version|c|25.2|show=}}

|6 February 2025{{cite web |last=Vignoli |first=Italo |date=6 February 2025 |title=LibreOffice 25.2, the office suite that meets today’s user needs |url=https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/02/06/libreoffice-25-2/ |access-date=6 February 2025}}

|New features included:{{cite web |title=ReleaseNotes/25.2 |url=https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.2 |access-date=6 February 2025 |publisher=The Document Foundation's Wiki}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=bysa3|from this source=yes}}

; Writer

  • Enhanced comment handling in the Navigator and improved tracked changes interface
  • Support for inline headings
  • New options for footnote/endnote conversion, page numbering, and zoom level defaults
  • Improvements to paragraph layout, accessibility features, and content deletion via the Navigator

; Calc

  • New duplicate record handling dialog
  • Solver enhancements, including model saving and sensitivity reports
  • Additional sheet protection features and smarter selection behavior

; Impress

  • Support for soft edge/glow effects, improved text rendering in SVG export
  • Improved presenter notes printing
  • Objects can now be centered with a single action

; Others

  • Base adds Unicode ODBC support
  • Draw adds support for clipping stroke paths in imported PDFs
  • Math allows user-defined formula categories

; General

  • macOS Quick Look integration, support for HTML strikethrough pasting
  • Optional automatic signing of documents using a default certificate
  • ODF 1.4 export support and new Visio (.vstx) import filter
  • User interface enhancements include touch zoom on Windows, customizable themes, and improved Sidebar controls

This was the last version to support Windows 7 and 8.1.

|

Derivatives

  • Collabora Office and Collabora Online are paid enterprise derivatives of LibreOffice. Collabora offers customers technical support, custom features, long-term support (LTS) and support under a service-level agreement (SLA).{{Cite web |date=2021-02-05 |title=Open-source LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off our Community version, you are hurting development |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-libreoffice-tells-businesses-get-off-our-community-version-you-are-hurting-development/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207141009/https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-libreoffice-tells-businesses-get-off-our-community-version-you-are-hurting-development/ |archive-date=7 February 2021 |access-date=2021-03-23 |website=ZDNet |quote=TDF is urging enterprises to adopt LibreOffice Enterprise from partners that offer long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features and Service Level Agreements.}}
  • 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.{{cite web |author=Abhishek Prakash |date=16 April 2015 |title=Two Hungarian Universities Switch To EuroOffice To Promote ODF – It's FOSS |url=https://itsfoss.com/hungarian-universities-switch-eurooffice/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920112155/https://itsfoss.com/hungarian-universities-switch-eurooffice/ |archive-date=20 September 2020 |access-date=5 September 2020}}{{Cite web |title=EuroOffice homepage |url=http://www.multiracio.com/eurooffice/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322121431/http://www.multiracio.com/ |archive-date=22 March 2019 |publisher=MultiRacio Ltd.}}
  • NDC ODF Application Tools is a derivative of LibreOffice provided by the Taiwan National Development Council (NDC) and used by public agencies in Taiwan.{{Cite web |date=28 October 2018 |title=Taiwanese government standardises on true ODF document format |url=https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/document/taiwanese-government-standardises-true-odf-document-format |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802140034/https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/document/taiwanese-government-standardises-true-odf-document-format |archive-date=2 August 2019 |access-date=2 August 2019 |website=Joinup collaboration platform |publisher=European Commission}}
  • NeoOffice (discontinued 2024) 2017 and later versions are based on LibreOffice.{{Cite web |last=Pluby |date=2 May 2017 |title=NeoOffice 2017 Beta Professional Edition released |url=https://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=65212#65212 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808033049/https://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=65212#65212 |archive-date=8 August 2017 |access-date=10 May 2017 |publisher=trinity.neooffice.org}} Prior versions included stability fixes from LibreOffice, but were based on OpenOffice.{{Cite web |last=pluby |date=7 November 2013 |title=Mac App Store complaints |url=http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=64520#64520 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227032323/http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=64520#64520 |archive-date=27 December 2013 |access-date=25 December 2013 |publisher=trinity.neooffice.org}}
  • OxOffice is a derivative of LibreOffice (originally a derivative of OpenOffice.org{{Cite web |date=15 October 2010 |title=Openoffice.org與OxOffice |trans-title=Openoffice.org and OxOffice |url=http://ithelp.ithome.com.tw/question/10054256 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016114525/http://ithelp.ithome.com.tw/question/10054256 |archive-date=16 October 2015 |access-date=14 October 2015 |website=iT邦}}) with enhanced support for the Chinese language.{{Cite web |date=5 August 2016 |title=OSSII OxOffice Community Edition download |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/ossii-oxoffice/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504060541/https://sourceforge.net/projects/ossii-oxoffice/ |archive-date=4 May 2019 |access-date=4 May 2019 |website=SourceForge}}
  • OffiDocs is a derivative of LibreOffice online developed and supported by the OffiDocs Group OÜ{{cite web |date=2024-03-28 |title=OffiDocs Group OÜ (16097912) |url=https://ariregister.rik.ee/eng/company/16097912/OffiDocs-Group-O%C3%9C |accessdate=2024-07-17 |publisher=E-Business Register |location=Estonia}}{{Cite press release |title=Productivity Software Market Next Big Thing – Major Giants Microsoft, Google, OffiDocs |date=5 April 2021 |url=https://industrytoday.co.uk/it/productivity-software-market-next-big-thing---major-giants-microsoft--google--offidocs |access-date=9 January 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109024351/https://industrytoday.co.uk/it/productivity-software-market-next-big-thing---major-giants-microsoft--google--offidocs |archive-date=9 January 2022 |agency=HTF Market Intelligence Consulting Private Limited}} with multiple applications to use LibreOffice in mobile apps.{{Cite web |date=1 December 2016 |title=OffiDocs Mobile Apps |url=https://www.appbrain.com/dev/OffiDocs+Mobile+Apps/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109024341/https://www.appbrain.com/dev/OffiDocs+Mobile+Apps/ |archive-date=9 January 2022 |access-date=9 January 2022}}
  • ZetaOffice is a paid enterprise derivative of LibreOffice. Allotropia (spun off from CIB in 2021) offers it as both a desktop application with LTS as well as an online version based on WebAssembly technology.{{Cite web |date=19 November 2024 |title=ZetaOffice: LibreOffice's new web, mobile and desktop solution |url=https://www.cib.de/en/software-release-zetaoffice-libreoffice-solution/ |access-date=11 March 2025 |work=CIP Group}}{{Cite web |date=8 November 2024 |title=Announcing ZetaOffice, a new LibreOffice Technology product for web, mobile & desktop |url=https://blog.allotropia.de/2024/11/08/announcing-zetaoffice-a-new-libreoffice-technology-product-for-web-mobile-desktop/ |access-date=11 March 2025 |work=allotropia software blog}} In May 2025, Collabora announced it had purchased Allotropia with the goal of merging ZetaOffice and the WebAssembly technology with Collabora Office and Collabora Online.{{Cite web |last=Obbard |first=Naomi |date=2025-05-28 |title=Collabora and allotropia merge |url=https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/collabora-allotropia-merge/ |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=Collabora Online and Collabora Office |language=en-US}}

Users and deployments

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From 2011 to 2018, the estimated number of LibreOffice users grew from 25 million to 200 million. In 2011, The Document Foundation estimated that 10 million users had obtained the software via downloads or CD-ROMs, mostly on Windows, with an additional 15 million users on Linux based on new or updated installations.{{Cite web |url=http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/09/28/the-document-foundation-celebrates-its-first-anniversary/ |title=The Document Foundation celebrates its first anniversary |date=28 September 2011 |website=The Document Foundation Blog |access-date=28 September 2011 |archive-date=1 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001154739/http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/09/28/the-document-foundation-celebrates-its-first-anniversary/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Paul |first=Ryan |title=LibreOffice gaining momentum, heading to Android, iOS, and the Web |url=https://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/10/libreoffice-gaining-momentum-heading-to-android-ios-and-the-web.ars |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016142545/http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/10/libreoffice-gaining-momentum-heading-to-android-ios-and-the-web.ars |archive-date=16 October 2011 |access-date=17 October 2011}}{{Cite news |last=Shankland |first=Stephen |date=18 October 2011 |title=LibreOffice expands users and reach |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/libreoffice-expands-users-and-reach/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006133722/http://www.zdnet.com/news/libreoffice-expands-users-and-reach/6316162 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |access-date=9 May 2012 |publisher=ZDNet}} By 2013, the user base was estimated at 75 million,{{Cite web |url=http://www.muktware.com/2013/09/watch-out-microsoft-collabora-is-bringing-value-added-libreoffice/4593 |title=Watch out Microsoft, Collabora is bringing value added LibreOffice |date=September 2013 |website=Muktware |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729194531/http://www.muktware.com/2013/09/watch-out-microsoft-collabora-is-bringing-value-added-libreoffice/4593 |archive-date=29 July 2014 |access-date=4 January 2014}} increasing to 100 million in 2015,{{Cite web |url=https://www.collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/updated-libreoffice-growth-infographic-2015/ |title=Updated LibreOffice growth infographic (2015) – Collabora Productivity |access-date=21 February 2016 |periodical=Collabora Productivity |date=11 November 2015 |archive-date=12 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512084825/https://www.collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/updated-libreoffice-growth-infographic-2015/ |url-status=live }} and 120 million in 2016.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/3102849/software-productivity/libreoffice-52-includes-classified-documents-and-a-streamlined-interface.html |title=LibreOffice 5.2 includes classified documents and a streamlined interface |website=PC World |access-date=1 March 2017 |archive-date=9 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809165616/http://www.pcworld.com/article/3102849/software-productivity/libreoffice-52-includes-classified-documents-and-a-streamlined-interface.html |url-status=live }} In 2018, The Document Foundation reported 200 million active users, with approximately 25% being students and 10% using Linux systems.{{Cite web |url=https://opensource.com/article/18/9/libreoffice-history |title=LibreOffice: A history of document freedom |last=Watkins |first=Don |date=25 September 2018 |access-date=3 March 2019 |archive-date=9 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309133423/https://opensource.com/article/18/9/libreoffice-history |url-status=live }} For comparison, Microsoft Office had an estimated 1.2 billion users in 2018.{{Cite web |url=https://www.windowscentral.com/there-are-now-12-billion-office-users-60-million-office-365-commercial-customers |title=There are now 1.2 billion Office users and 60 million Office 365 commercial customers |date=31 March 2016 |access-date=3 March 2019 |archive-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218094357/https://www.windowscentral.com/there-are-now-12-billion-office-users-60-million-office-365-commercial-customers |url-status=live }}

See also

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