New releases, news & upcoming events ?? Collabora Productivity Newsletter July 2024
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Welcome to the July newsletter! Read on to find out what we’ve been up to this month, details of recent new releases, and what exciting things are coming up over the next few months.
Latest Releases
New Website
We are excited to announce the launch of our new website!
With easier navigation, a sleeker user experience and streamlined content - it's never been easier to learn more about all Collabora Online has to offer. You can now easily search past content in our blog, find a partner with our 'filter by country and service' feature, and easily find links and information about getting involved in the COOL community!
Collabora Online 24.04
The annual major release of COOL 24.04 was released in May, bringing with it new performance, interoperability, and useability features to improve the collaborative work environments for millions of users: with a wide range of performance improvements and many new features including cell protection and section editing, better Google Sheets copy/paste, improved PDFs and much more! This update is packed with features ready to bring ease to modern distributed working environments while delivering a familiar look and feel, and providing data security and sovereignty.
We are excited to announce that COOL 24.04 now has an 100% Traditional Chinese Translation (thanks to TY Wong at Peopleware, Hong Kong) and went through a number of usability improvements as well as bug fixes in our online office suite applications.
Collabora Office 24.04
Last month, the major release of Collabora Office 24.04 arrived! Collabora Office 24.04, our enterprise-ready and long-term supported version of LibreOffice, is available for Linux x86_64, Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, and macOS.
This release is packed with numerous performance enhancements and interoperability improvements, making your workflow smoother and more efficient.
Collabora Office 24.04 has also seen further improvements this month, such as fixes and improvements from upstream libreoffice-24-2 branch, 7 new fonts from Google’s DocRepair Project, and section-based continuous endnotes in Writer.
You can find all the details in the release notes!
Collabora Office 24.04 Available in Stores
The latest major version of our business-hardened office suite for desktop is?available?in the Windows Store and Mac App Store?or via the latest snapshots.
Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) 24.04
Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) also saw updates this month, including improved PDF Annotation Support and an automated Form Filling API. As well as these new features, many smaller fixes and improvements for Writer and Calc have been added. Please see the release notes for full details.
Find out how to download the latest CODE version here: www.collaboraonline.com/code
Feature Friday Videos
Our most recent Feature Friday video shared tips for working more efficiently with columns and rows by using the freezing and grouping features.?Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel?so you don’t miss out on future tips and tricks!
White Paper
Explore how Collabora Online makes GDPR easy and the usage of end-to-end encryption with your sensitive data in our newest white paper, “Is Your Online Office Suite State of the Art? How Collabora Online Makes GDPR Compliance Easy”.
Press Mentions
Nextberry shared a comprehensive guide covering how Nextcloud and Collabora Online function with one another and why this integration is an ideal choice for an efficient collaborative office.
Our partners, ownCloud, released a blog post on how Secure View?(which is available within ownCloud Infinite Scale)?helps us share documents without losing control of our data.
Videos
We recently launched a new YouTube channel, Collabora Online Tech Talks, where you can dive deeper into the world of LibreOffice technology and Collabora Online.
Join us to gain insights into how the code works and explore the latest features as presented by Collabora Online developers.
Through this channel, we also aim to provide our community with a platform to better understand the collaborative efforts behind our projects and how you can contribute to the future of Open Source software. Don't miss out —?subscribe to Tech Talks today and join the conversation!
“Who Controls Your Data?” Interview with Robin Redgrave from OpenText
We had an engaging conversation with Robin Redgrave, Product Manager at OpenText, to delve into their product, Filr, which integrates Collabora Online.
Collabora Online’s integration into Filr is seamless and versatile, as demonstrated by successful implementations across various industries, including a large media company with over 25,000 users. By incorporating Collabora Online, hosting providers can offer secure, enterprise-ready document editing solutions, enhancing their service offerings without significant infrastructure changes.
Learn more about Robin’s views on how to keep your organization’s data secure in the video, or download the case study.
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LibreOffice Hackfest
In June, we were very pleased to sponsor the LibreOffice Technology Hackfest in Budapest, Hungary. We loved getting to know the contributors and volunteers from the LibreOffice community and enjoyed meeting up with some of our fellow LibreOffice Technology hackers.
Read about the great time we spent together in our new blog post!
Many thanks to all who joined us, and we look forward to seeing you at the next meet up!
Webinar: Nextcloud Office in Hub 8 with Collabora
On the 18th June we learnt how to propel performance and productivity with the latest Nextcloud Office, and learnt about the newest features from COOL 24.04 that are available in Nextcloud Hub 8.
Webinar: When AI Detection Isn’t Enough
On 19th June we were glad to have our partners from EGroupware and Antecedent Analytics join a webinar on encouraging student engagement and learning in the AI era.
We had a great time learning how educators can leverage Antecedent, Collabora Online and EGroupware to benefit students and educators.
If you missed out, you can join our next webinar on 4th September which will include a live Q&A.
Upcoming Events
Nextcloud Conference
14 – 15 September, Berlin, Germany
Our long-standing partners at Nextcloud invite us all to join an exciting weekend of coding, design, discussions, talks, and fun! Find out what’s new in Nextcloud Hub 9, including all the newest developments for Nextcloud Office.
LibreOffice Conference
10 - 12 October, Luxembourg
Join us at the LibreOffice Conference 2024 which will take place in?Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg?and?will be preceded by an open day for the LibreOffice community member meetings on 9 October 2024. We hope to see you there.
Smart Country Convention
15–17 October, Berlin, Germany
Come meet us at our booth at SCCON alongside other members of the openDesk project, at the leading event for smart cities, smart regions and e-government. We look forward to meeting you there!
Open Source Experience
4 - 5 December, Paris, France
Join us at the Open Source Experience - an event focused on open source technologies, solutions and challenges in Europe - which highlights the driving role of open source innovations in the digital transformation of organisations.
Keep an eye out on our events page for up-to-date news on where we’ll be in the coming months, as well as catching up on our past events and talks.
Partner Spotlight
Based in Lyon, Easya Solutions specialises in providing solutions based on free and Open Source software. With a highly experienced and skilled team, they offer a wide range of services including integration, consulting, custom development and hosting.
Easya Solutions offers two main products: Easya ERP/CRM and Easya Cloud. Easya ERP/CRM, built on Dolibarr, provides flexible business management tools for global management, productivity, accounting and HR teams. Easya Cloud, leveraging Nextcloud and Collabora Online, delivers GDPR-compliant document sharing in a comprehensive collaborative office suite, which includes calendars, contact management and instant messaging.
The Easya Cloud ecosystem supports real-time document editing with high-fidelity rendering, ensuring seamless collaboration and preserved document formatting. Additionally, it allows for secure folder sharing with advanced permissions management, guaranteeing that sensitive information remains protected by requiring two-factor authentication.
We love to hear your feedback, it really helps us to make informed decisions about future releases. You can write a review on Capterra and share what you love about Collabora Online, or what we can improve in future releases.
Thank you for your continued support! ??