LibreOffice

Original author(s)Star Division
Developer(s)The Document Foundation
Initial release25 January 2011; 13 years ago (2011-01-25)
Stable release
Fresh24.8.2[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 27 September 2024
Repository
Written inC++, XML, Python, and Java[2]
Operating systemLinux, Windows 7+, macOS 10.15+, Android 5+;[3]
Unofficial: iOS,[4] iPadOS, ChromeOS,[5] FreeBSD, OpenBSD,[6] NetBSD, Haiku, Solaris (v. 5.2.5)[7]
Platformx86-64 (all operating systems), IA-32, ARMel, ARMhf, ARM64, MIPS, MIPSel, PowerPC, ppc64le, S390x,[8] VLIW
PredecessorOpenOffice.org
Standard(s)OpenDocument
Available in120 languages[9]
TypeOffice productivity suite
LicenseMPL-2.0[10]
Websitelibreoffice.org

LibreOffice (/ˈliːbrə/)[11] 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 120 languages.[9] TDF does not provide support for LibreOffice, but enterprise-focused editions are available from companies in the ecosystem.[12]

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[13] 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.[14][15][16][17]

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.[18]

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.[19] 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.[20] The Document Foundation estimates that there are 200 million active LibreOffice users worldwide, about 25% of whom are students and 10% are Linux users.[21]

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