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LibreOffice

LibreOffice (/ˈlbrə/)[10] is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF). It was forked in 2010 from OpenOffice.org, an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice. It consists of programs for word processing; creating and editing spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams, and drawings; working with databases; and composing mathematical formulae. It is available in 115 languages.[8] TDF does not provide support for LibreOffice, but enterprise-focused editions are available from companies in the ecosystem.[11]

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25 January 2011 (2011-01-25)

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x86-64 (all operating systems), IA-32, ARMel, ARMhf, ARM64, MIPS, MIPSel, PowerPC, ppc64le, S390x,[7] VLIW

115 languages[8]

LibreOffice uses the OpenDocument standard as its native file format, but supports formats of most other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, through a variety of import and export filters.


It is available for a variety of computing platforms, with official support for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux[12] and community builds for many other platforms. Ecosystem partner Collabora uses LibreOffice upstream code and provides apps for Android, iOS, iPadOS and ChromeOS. LibreOffice is the default office suite of the most popular Linux distributions.[13][14][15][16]


LibreOffice Online is an online office suite that includes the applications Writer, Calc, and Impress, and provides an upstream for projects such as commercial Collabora Online.


It is the most actively developed free and open-source office suite, with approximately 50 times the development activity of Apache OpenOffice, the other major descendant of OpenOffice.org, in 2015.[17]


The project was announced, and a beta was released on September 28, 2010. LibreOffice was downloaded about 7.5 million times between January 2011 (the first stable release) and October 2011.[18] The project claimed 120 million unique downloading addresses from May 2011 to May 2015 (excluding Linux distributions), with 55 million of those from May 2014 to May 2015.[19] The Document Foundation estimates that there are 200 million active LibreOffice users worldwide, about 25% of whom are students and 10% are Linux users.[20]

"" – the most recent major version (branch), which contains the latest enhancements but which may have introduced bugs not present in the "still" release.

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"Still" (formerly "Stable") – the prior major version, which, by the time it has become the "still" version, has had around six months of bug fixing. It is recommended for users for whom stability is more important than the latest enhancements.

In 2003–2004, the Brazilian corporation started migrating its software to BrOffice (the local version of LibreOffice at the time), with estimated value of BRL 3.5 million (approximately US$1.2 million at the time), and became a case study for similar initiatives in Brazil, particularly in e-government.[198]

Serpro

In 2005, the French Gendarmerie announced its migration to OpenOffice.org. It planned to migrate 72,000 desktop machines to a customised version of Ubuntu (GendBuntu) with LibreOffice by 2015.[200]

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In 2010, the Irish city of gradually started migrating to open-source solutions to free itself from vendor lock-in and improve its purchase negotiation power. One of the key aspects of this move has been the use of LibreOffice.[201]

Limerick

2011 – , France – 12–15 October[243]

Paris

2012 – , Germany – 17–19 October[244]

Berlin

2013 – , Italy – 24–27 September[245]

Milan

2014 – , Switzerland – 3–5 September[246][247]

Bern

2015 – , Denmark – 23–25 September[248][249]

Aarhus

2016 – , Czech Republic – 7–9 September[250][251]

Brno

2017 – , Italy – 11–13 October[252][253]

Rome

2018 – , Albania – 26–28 September[254]

Tirana

2019 – , Spain – 11–13 September[255]

Almería

2020 – – 15–17 October[256]

web conferencing

2021 – – 23–25 September[257]

web conferencing

2022 – , Italy & remotely (hybrid) – 28 September–1 October[258]

Milan

2023 – , Romania – 20 September–23 September[259]

Bucharest

Starting in 2011, The Document Foundation has organized the annual LibreOffice Conference, as follows:

Collabora Office and are enterprise editions of LibreOffice. Most software development work on LibreOffice is by its commercial partners that includes Collabora, Red Hat and CIB/Allotropia, also providing long-term support, technical support, custom features, and Service Level Agreements (SLA)s.[260]

Collabora Online

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.[262]

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"NDC ODF Application Tools" is a derivative of LibreOffice provided by the (NDC) and used by public agencies in Taiwan.[263]

Taiwan National Development Council

(discontinued 2024) 2017 and later versions are based on LibreOffice.[264] Prior versions included stability fixes from LibreOffice, but were based on OpenOffice.[265]

NeoOffice

OxOffice is a derivative of LibreOffice (originally a derivative of OpenOffice.org) with enhanced support for the Chinese language.[267]

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OffiDocs is a derivative of LibreOffice online developed and supported by the OffiDocs Group OU with multiple applications to use LibreOffice in mobile apps.[269]

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Comparison of office suites

List of free and open-source software packages

List of office suites

file format

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