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The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move 30,000 local government PCs from Windows and Office to Linux and LibreOffice, according to a blog post from the Document Foundation, the organisation that oversees the development of LibreOffice.

A new version of the free office suite, LibreOffice 7.6 Community, has been released and can be downloaded right away.

Open source vendor Red Hat has decided to drop the free office suite LibreOffice from its distributions — the commercial RHEL and the community Fedora offerings — as it is short of developer hours to maintain the suite, a developer says.

LibreOffice 7.5 Community, the latest major release of the free office suite, is now available for Windows on Intel/AMD and ARM processors, macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel processors, and Linux.

Open source office suite LibreOffice 7.4 Community is now available, and includes a raft of new features.

LibreOffice 7.3 Community has been released, and this new version of the open source productivity suite features a large number of improvements to help users migrating from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, or when exchanging documents.

The Document Foundation (TDF) launches LIbreOffice 7.2 Community, a volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop and productivity.

A major new release of LibreOffice spinoff Collabora Office promises productivity improvements.

German open source vendor SUSE has become the most prominent FOSS organisation to add its voice to the push for Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman and the entire FSF board to resign.

The Document Foundation, the organisation that provides an umbrella for the development of the free office-suite LibreOffice, has announced the availability of version 7.0 for all operating systems and platforms.

Veteran free software and open source developer Michael Meeks has expanded on the issues faced by the LibreOffice project which were briefly touched on by iTWire recently, drawing from a post on the popular Linux Weekly News website.

The foundation that looks after LibreOffice, a free open-source software suite that is based on the code from the former Star Office, is being forced to look at a commercial edition because developers from companies who are working on it are not being paid by those companies, a senior developer says.

A point release of the free office suite, LibreOffice, is aimed at power users and early adopters, the Document Foundation, the organisation under whose auspices development takes place, says.

The Document Foundation, the body that governs the open-source office suite LibreOffice, has announced the second major release of LibreOffice 6.

The open-source office suite LibreOffice has added experimental support for OpenPGP-based encryption in version 6.0, a release meant to mark the seventh anniversary of availability of the suite.

The city of Barcelona plans to move its workers to open source software, with proprietary applications being the first to be replaced.

The end of Solaris, the UNIX-like operating system developed by Sun Microsystems, is nigh, with the core talent associated with the OS and its SPARC hardware being laid off by Oracle on Friday.

The open-source office suite LibreOffice has released version 5.4, the last major release in its 5.x family, for Windows, macOS and Linux.

As the seventh anniversary of its forking from OpenOffice.org looms, the free office suite LibreOffice has established itself as the most widely used free office suite, winning a race that began in early 2011.

A new version of LibreOffice, 5.3, released on Wednesday, includes collaborative editing and a new user interface, according to information from The Document Foundation.