The number of developers working on LibreOffice has nearly quintupled since September, according to Vignoli.

'It was necessary to prove that we are able to have our own software and development process for the future,' Vignoli told eWEEK. The LibreOffice development community has been concentrating on the 3.3 release as well as cleaning up the codebase inherited from OpenOffice, said Italo Vignoli, a founding member of the Document Foundation. Novell's OpenSUSE Linux also includes LibreOffice. The alpha version of Ubuntu 11.04 released in December used OpenOffice, but now that LibreOffice is available, Canonical will be making the switch. LibreOffice 3.3 Draw, showing ability to import SVG filesĬanonical plans to include LibreOffice in its next version of Ubuntu Linux, codenamed Natty Narwhal. The Document Foundation has a number of big names backing it, including Red Hat, Google, Novell, and Canonical. This is the first stable release of the open source office suite since its breakaway from Oracle's project in September.Ĭoncerned about Oracle's plans for OpenOffice after the Sun acquisition, about a third of OpenOffice developers formed the Document Foundation in September, then forked the software into their own version.

25, a mere five days after announcing a release candidate. The Document Foundation launched LibreOffice 3.3 on Jan. Due for inclusion in Ubuntu 11.04, among other Linux distros, LibreOffice 3.3 is a bit leaner than OpenOffice, and aims to get more so in the future to support mobile devices, says the group. The Document Foundation launched the first stable version of its open source LibreOffice productivity suite, following a breakaway from and Oracle's control.

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