LibreOffice 7

These very words have been written with LibreOffice 7.0 and there’s nothing groundbreaking or earth-shattering about that, which is absolutely something to celebrate. LibreOffice is yet another first-class example of a successful – at least in terms of function – open source project. It’s feature-full, stable, supports open standards, backed by a vibrant community, underpinned by a ethical foundation and is successfully maintained and developed over time by a wide spread of developers.

Whatever your thoughts on LibreOffice itself, a full office suite is an essential component in any prime-time computing ecosystem and LibreOffice is just that. We hate to admit it, but Linux Format has been somewhat remiss of late for overlooking both the offline LibreOffice developments, but also the online cloud implementations that are based on it, such as Collabora’s CODE or NextCloud.

So with the milestone release of we thought it was high time that we revisited this sprawling office suite and remind ourselves how important a project it is and its accomplishments. Of course, you’d be foolish to think anything is perfect, and has its shortcomings. Certainly, there are questions over its long-term sustainability of the ecosystem, with moves afoot to try and shore