LibreOffice

LibreOffice
Original author(s)Star Division
Developer(s)The Document Foundation
Initial release25 January 2011 (2011-01-25)
Stable release(s)
Repository
Written inC++, XML, Python, and Java[3]
Operating system
Platform
PredecessorOpenOffice.org
Standard(s)OpenDocument
Available in120 languages[5]
TypeOffice productivity suite
LicenseMPL-2.0[6]
Websitelibreoffice.org

LibreOffice (/ˈliːbrə ˈɒfɪs/)[7] 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), database management (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, and there are community builds for other platforms.[8] Ecosystem partner Collabora uses LibreOffice as upstream code to provide a web-based suite branded as Collabora Online, along with apps for platforms not officially supported by LibreOffice, including Android, ChromeOS, iOS and iPadOS.[9][10]

TDF describes LibreOffice as intended for individual users, and encourages enterprises to obtain the software and technical support services from ecosystem partners like Collabora. TDF states that most development is carried out by these commercial partners in the course of supporting enterprise customers.[11] This arrangement has contributed to a significantly higher level of development activity compared to Apache OpenOffice, another fork of OpenOffice.org,[12] which has struggled since 2015 to attract and retain enough contributors to sustain active development and to provide timely security updates.[13][14][15]

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,[16] and more than 120 million by 2015, excluding those bundled with Linux distributions.[17] As of 2018, TDF estimated around 200 million active users.[18] The suite is available in 120 languages.[19]

  1. ^ Italo Vignoli (29 August 2025). "Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.1". tdf-announce. Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  2. ^ "[tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 25.2.6". 8 September 2025. Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  3. ^ "The LibreOffice Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page". Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  4. ^ "LibreOffice for Android and iOS". The Document Foundation. Archived from the original on 11 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  5. ^ "LibreOffice Fresh download – pick language". The Document Foundation. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Licenses". The Document Foundation. Archived from the original on 11 February 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  7. ^ "Marketing/InitialBranding – The Document Foundation Wiki". wiki.documentfoundation.org. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  8. ^ Attributable to multiple sources:
  9. ^ Sneddon, Joey (4 March 2020). "Collabora Office Brings LibreOffice to Android, iOS". omgubuntu.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 March 2020. ...works entirely offline. ...support for integrations with cloud storage services, including NextCloud...
  10. ^ Mehrotra, Pranob (1 December 2020). "Collabora Office suite gets a new layout for Android tablets and Chromebooks". XDA-Developers. Retrieved 15 January 2021. Collabora Office is a popular open-source alternative to the Microsoft Office suite. It's based on LibreOffice, and it's available on a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. This year in July, a major update for the office suite brought support for ChromeOS devices.
  11. ^ "Open-source LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off our Community version, you are hurting development". ZDNet. 5 February 2021. Archived from the original on 5 February 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021. TDF highlights that 73% of commits are from developers employed by these partners, including Collabora, Red Hat and CIB/allotropia
  12. ^ Corbet, Jonathan. "Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice". LWN.net. Eklektix, Inc. Archived from the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  13. ^ Linton, Susan (5 June 2015). "Apache OpenOffice versus LibreOffice". OStatic. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2015. OpenOffice received about 10% of the improvements LibreOffice did in the period of time studied.
  14. ^ "The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes January 21, 2015". Apache Software Foundation. 21 January 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  15. ^ "The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes". www.apache.org. 16 July 2025. Several [security] issues in OpenOffice are over 365 days old. They are not severe enough to warrant stopping distribution of OpenOffice, and there is progress on finding an architectural improvement to fix them, but we actively work to improve the projects' ability to respond to security issues going forward.
  16. ^ Thomson, Iain (28 September 2011). "On its first birthday, LibreOffice has reason to celebrate". The Register. United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  17. ^ Meeks, Michael (2 May 2015). "LibreOffice: What's New?" (PDF). OpenSUSE conference 2015 Den Haag. p. 4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2015. Tracking direct download Update Ping origins. Excludes all Linux Distributions downloads ~120m so far ( + Linux ) This time last year @ openSUSE con. was ~65m
  18. ^ "LibreOffice: A history of document freedom". Opensource.com. 25 September 2018. Archived from the original on 9 March 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  19. ^ "LibreOffice Fresh download – pick language". The Document Foundation. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
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