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Who Has the Keys to Your Data?

The Uncomfortable Truth About Microsoft Customer Lockbox There is a question that every organisation storing data in Microsoft 365 should be asking, but most never do: can Microsoft access your files, emails, and documents without your knowledge or consent? The answer, by default, is yes – and Microsoft will even...

Digital Sovereignty Explained

Confused by buzzwords? You’re not alone. EXPLAINED is a new explainer series for people who work with technology – but don’t want marketing fluff or academic theory. We break down complex digital topics clearly and practically: what they mean, why they matter, and how they work in the real world....

An Interview with Pranam: How Open Source Powered a Digital Nomad Dream

Welcome back to our interview series, where we chat with the passionate people behind the Collabora Online code. Collabora Online is made possible by the worldwide team, community, contributors and partners. Today, we’re sitting down with Pranam Lashkari, a developer whose journey into tech began with a DIY computer build...

WOPI Is Open. Your Office Stack Should Be Too.

Web Application Open Platform Interface (WOPI) is a REST-based protocol originally developed by Microsoft to enable web-based document editing between third-party applications. It’s the “plumbing” that connects document storage systems (such as Microsoft SharePoint, file servers or cloud storage) with online office suites for seamless editing experiences. Microsoft created WOPI...

Why the Best Online Office Doesn’t Try to Store Your Files

Keep your storage. Upgrade your editing. If you’ve ever wondered whether Collabora Online is a “cloud drive”, the simple answer is no. We are focussed on making the best document editor possible, and don’t handle document storage. For document storage, we integrate beautifully with Enterprise File Sync & Share solutions...

Collabora Productivity contributions in LibreOffice 26.2

For over 12 years, Collabora Productivity has been privileged to work as one part of a broader community of enthusiastic developers, both volunteers and paid, collaborating to make an open source office suite that is free to download and trusted by millions of users. The LibreOffice codebase is the foundation...

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Ideals to Entrapment: A UK Government Case Study of How Not to Run IT Infrastructure

We’ve just worked through the CMA’s 637-page Final decision report (and a few appendices!) on the UK cloud infrastructure market. It’s packed with genuinely interesting data and analysis — the kind of numbers you rarely see in public (even if some of the juiciest bits are, inevitably, redacted). This post...

How The German Government is Planning for an Open Future

Launching openDesk 1.0 at the Smart Country Convention After previously speaking about our involvement in the openDesk project here, we were very excited to attend the Smart Country Convention in Berlin last week as part of the openDesk platform, where one of the standout moments of the event was the...

New Features in 2 Weeks? A Success Story of Productive Pivoting Spreadsheets

At Collabora Productivity, we like to be productive by name and by nature. One recent feature fix for Danish insurance company – balticfinance, has shown this to be the case. Ten working days after being requested, the updated pivot table functionality was delivered. Pivot tables are an extremely powerful feature,...

Empowering Education with Collabora Online: A Case Study

During the global pandemic, the Friedrich-List-Gemeinschaftsschule in Mössingen, Germany, seamlessly embraced the challenge of transitioning to online learning. Throughout this process, privacy, reliability, and accessibility were held up, with an open-source strategy leveraging Collabora Online as a vital component of their educational toolkit. “It simply works. And it is reliable....

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CODE 25.04 Release

The next major release of Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) is here! This release focuses on automation, security, and precision, introducing key improvements like Autotext for faster document creation, eID Easy for secure PDF signing, and a new Presenter Console in Impress. Spreadsheet users will benefit from improved UX, new...

Introducing CODE 24.04: Enhancing Performance, Interoperability, and Accessibility

Introducing Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) 24.04: Enhancing Performance, Interoperability, and Accessibility Cambridge, 23 April 2024 – We are happy to announce the new major release of Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) 24.04. CODE, the development version of our enterprise-ready office suite, Collabora Online, has over 88 million docker image...

CODE & Collabora Online 23.05.4 Released with New Font and QR Code Features

They say time waits for no man, and that’s certainly the case at Collabora. Our latest update to Collabora Online Development Edition has now been released, with a number of exciting new features and improvements, including font previews, QR and barcode generators, as well as a number of bug fixes...

CODE 23.05 Released, Empowering Users with Enhanced Productivity and Collaboration Features

→ Read about the latest update, CODE 24.04 ← Collabora Productivity Unveils Highly Anticipated Update to CODE (Collabora Online Development Edition), Empowering Users with Enhanced Productivity and Collaboration Features Cambridge, June 13, 2023 at 13:00 CEST – We are happy to announce the new major release of Collabora Office Development...

CODE 22.05 Released with Powerful New Features like Grammar Checks, Sparklines and “Jumbo Spreadsheets”

→ Read about the latest update, CODE 24.04 ← This New Major Release Brings Grammar Checking, Giant Spreadsheets and Performance Wins Cambridge, June 29, 2022 – Collabora announces the availability of Collabora Online Developer Edition (CODE) 22.05. The latest major release targets three key areas: ease of use, performance, and...

Connecting Collabora Online built-in CODE Server with Nginx

When you are using a Nginx server, you need to do a small modification to your existing configuration. For the Collabora Online app to work, you have to add a ‘richdocumentscode/proxy’ entry point as an allowed location to the config in the webroot of your nginx installation. From the documentation...

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Who Has the Keys to Your Data?

The Uncomfortable Truth About Microsoft Customer Lockbox There is a question that every organisation storing data in Microsoft 365 should be asking, but most never do: can Microsoft access your files, emails, and documents without your knowledge or consent? The answer, by default, is yes – and Microsoft will even...

Collabora Productivity contributions in LibreOffice 26.2

For over 12 years, Collabora Productivity has been privileged to work as one part of a broader community of enthusiastic developers, both volunteers and paid, collaborating to make an open source office suite that is free to download and trusted by millions of users. The LibreOffice codebase is the foundation...

DigitalPakt Schule 2.0: A once-in-a-decade opportunity to modernise digital learning

Studies carried out in 2013, 2018, and then 2023 show that digital literacy within German schools has been in decline over the past 10 years. Existing approaches are not delivering the desired educational outcomes. Germany’s next major investment in school digitalisation is taking shape. With DigitalPakt Schule 2.0, the German...

From Online to Desktop, Berlin to Bangkok – Here is how your support made a difference

“As we come to the end of another extraordinary year, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our customers, partners, community and of course the awesome team at Collabora Productivity. “We’re focused on making Open Source rock by creating beautiful, intuitive tools that work online and off, and...

Collabora Online now available on Desktop

Same look. Same code.Your files, your device. We’re excited to share the first release of the new Collabora Office for desktop – bringing the familiar, powerful Collabora Online experience, to run locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Open it and feel instantly at home: ODF or DOCX, quick edits or...

A Brief History of File Formats: DOC vs DOCX vs ODF…

Save As? TL;DRWhen you click “Save As” in your favourite word processor, you probably don’t think too much about the file format. Yet file formats like .doc, .docx, and .odt shape how we create and share documents—but they can also create headaches. Here’s a quick guide to their history, differences,...

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Who Has the Keys to Your Data?

The Uncomfortable Truth About Microsoft Customer Lockbox There is a question that every organisation storing data in Microsoft 365 should be asking, but most never do: can Microsoft access your files, emails, and documents without your knowledge or consent? The answer, by default, is yes – and Microsoft will even...

WOPI Is Open. Your Office Stack Should Be Too.

Web Application Open Platform Interface (WOPI) is a REST-based protocol originally developed by Microsoft to enable web-based document editing between third-party applications. It’s the “plumbing” that connects document storage systems (such as Microsoft SharePoint, file servers or cloud storage) with online office suites for seamless editing experiences. Microsoft created WOPI...

Why the Best Online Office Doesn’t Try to Store Your Files

Keep your storage. Upgrade your editing. If you’ve ever wondered whether Collabora Online is a “cloud drive”, the simple answer is no. We are focussed on making the best document editor possible, and don’t handle document storage. For document storage, we integrate beautifully with Enterprise File Sync & Share solutions...

A Faster Friendlier Collabora Online – Part III

In Part I we introduced the big idea: ergonomics, power on demand with context-aware UI and progressive disclosure. In Part II we showed how real-world feedback shaped the work. This instalment shows more of the updates put into practice across everyday tasks: presenting, reviewing, number-crunching, and discoverability. Less friction, more...

DigitalPakt Schule 2.0: A once-in-a-decade opportunity to modernise digital learning

Studies carried out in 2013, 2018, and then 2023 show that digital literacy within German schools has been in decline over the past 10 years. Existing approaches are not delivering the desired educational outcomes. Germany’s next major investment in school digitalisation is taking shape. With DigitalPakt Schule 2.0, the German...

From Online to Desktop, Berlin to Bangkok – Here is how your support made a difference

“As we come to the end of another extraordinary year, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our customers, partners, community and of course the awesome team at Collabora Productivity. “We’re focused on making Open Source rock by creating beautiful, intuitive tools that work online and off, and...

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Digital Sovereignty Explained

Confused by buzzwords? You’re not alone. EXPLAINED is a new explainer series for people who work with technology – but don’t want marketing fluff or academic theory. We break down complex digital topics clearly and practically: what they mean, why they matter, and how they work in the real world....

An Interview with Pranam: How Open Source Powered a Digital Nomad Dream

Welcome back to our interview series, where we chat with the passionate people behind the Collabora Online code. Collabora Online is made possible by the worldwide team, community, contributors and partners. Today, we’re sitting down with Pranam Lashkari, a developer whose journey into tech began with a DIY computer build...

Collabora Productivity contributions in LibreOffice 26.2

For over 12 years, Collabora Productivity has been privileged to work as one part of a broader community of enthusiastic developers, both volunteers and paid, collaborating to make an open source office suite that is free to download and trusted by millions of users. The LibreOffice codebase is the foundation...

An Interview with Justin: From Bug Fixes to Building Community

Welcome back to our interview series, where we chat with the passionate people behind the Collabora Online code. Collabora Online is made possible by the worldwide team, community, contributors and partners. Today, we’re sitting down with Justin Luth, a developer whose journey has taken him from the early days of...

From Online to Desktop, Berlin to Bangkok – Here is how your support made a difference

“As we come to the end of another extraordinary year, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our customers, partners, community and of course the awesome team at Collabora Productivity. “We’re focused on making Open Source rock by creating beautiful, intuitive tools that work online and off, and...

An Interview with Skyler: Open Culture, Open Community, Open Code

Welcome back to our interview series, where we chat with the passionate people behind the Collabora Online code. Collabora Online is made possible by the worldwide team, community, contributors and partners. Today, we’re sitting down with Skyler Grey who we previously met during her internship. Since then she has been...

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From Online to Desktop, Berlin to Bangkok – Here is how your support made a difference

“As we come to the end of another extraordinary year, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our customers, partners, community and of course the awesome team at Collabora Productivity. “We’re focused on making Open Source rock by creating beautiful, intuitive tools that work online and off, and...

COOL Days 2025: A Bridge-Building Blast in Budapest

From Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4th June, our annual COOL Days conference brought the Collabora Online community together in beautiful Budapest, and we’re still buzzing from it! Hosted at the stylish Mövenpick Hotel, this year’s event was packed with engaging talks, unforgettable team-building, and plenty of laughs – not to...

Why Attend Conferences?

What We Learned from a Week in Paris & Munich​ At Collabora Productivity, we don’t just develop great open-source solutions – we actively engage with the communities that use and shape them. Attending conferences isn’t just about showing off our technology, it’s about strengthening partnerships, gathering real-world feedback, and ensuring...

A Whirlwind Weekend of Open Source: FOSDEM and EU Open Source Policy Summit

We had an incredibly busy weekend immersed in the world of Open Source, attending both the EU Open Source Policy Summit and FOSDEM in Brussels! It was a fantastic opportunity to connect with the community, learn about the latest developments, and share our own work. The weekend kicked off with...

What We Achieved Together in 2024

Going into the second decade of our life, we are enjoying the fruits of many years’ hard work, quality partnerships, wonderful customers, and continual improvement. 2024 was a year of great achievement – product enhancements, partnership milestones, new training opportunities, new partnerships, and of course our unwavering commitment to open-source...

Bringing Collabora Online to the World

With partners and users around the world, Collabora Online is a global solution, allowing any and all to take control of their documents and data. In December alone, we attended three international conferences, in two continents – the Open Source Experience (OSXP) in Paris, the Nextcloud Enterprise Day also in...

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WOPI Is Open. Your Office Stack Should Be Too.

Web Application Open Platform Interface (WOPI) is a REST-based protocol originally developed by Microsoft to enable web-based document editing between third-party applications. It’s the “plumbing” that connects document storage systems (such as Microsoft SharePoint, file servers or cloud storage) with online office suites for seamless editing experiences. Microsoft created WOPI...

Why the Best Online Office Doesn’t Try to Store Your Files

Keep your storage. Upgrade your editing. If you’ve ever wondered whether Collabora Online is a “cloud drive”, the simple answer is no. We are focussed on making the best document editor possible, and don’t handle document storage. For document storage, we integrate beautifully with Enterprise File Sync & Share solutions...

Collabora Productivity contributions in LibreOffice 26.2

For over 12 years, Collabora Productivity has been privileged to work as one part of a broader community of enthusiastic developers, both volunteers and paid, collaborating to make an open source office suite that is free to download and trusted by millions of users. The LibreOffice codebase is the foundation...

A Faster Friendlier Collabora Online – Part III

In Part I we introduced the big idea: ergonomics, power on demand with context-aware UI and progressive disclosure. In Part II we showed how real-world feedback shaped the work. This instalment shows more of the updates put into practice across everyday tasks: presenting, reviewing, number-crunching, and discoverability. Less friction, more...

From Online to Desktop, Berlin to Bangkok – Here is how your support made a difference

“As we come to the end of another extraordinary year, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our customers, partners, community and of course the awesome team at Collabora Productivity. “We’re focused on making Open Source rock by creating beautiful, intuitive tools that work online and off, and...

A Friendlier, Faster Collabora Online – Part II

1,000,000 Data Points for an Update? Check out Part I here TL;DRIn response to user feedback, we’ve made the Collabora Online interface more discoverable and learnable, with extra power on tap: context-aware menus, progressive disclosure, responsive toolbars, presenter controls, and clearer icons, so your team can move faster with less...

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Who Has the Keys to Your Data?

The Uncomfortable Truth About Microsoft Customer Lockbox There is a question that every organisation storing data in Microsoft 365 should be asking, but most never do: can Microsoft access your files, emails, and documents without your knowledge or consent? The answer, by default, is yes – and Microsoft will even...

WOPI Is Open. Your Office Stack Should Be Too.

Web Application Open Platform Interface (WOPI) is a REST-based protocol originally developed by Microsoft to enable web-based document editing between third-party applications. It’s the “plumbing” that connects document storage systems (such as Microsoft SharePoint, file servers or cloud storage) with online office suites for seamless editing experiences. Microsoft created WOPI...

Why the Best Online Office Doesn’t Try to Store Your Files

Keep your storage. Upgrade your editing. If you’ve ever wondered whether Collabora Online is a “cloud drive”, the simple answer is no. We are focussed on making the best document editor possible, and don’t handle document storage. For document storage, we integrate beautifully with Enterprise File Sync & Share solutions...

From Online to Desktop, Berlin to Bangkok – Here is how your support made a difference

“As we come to the end of another extraordinary year, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our customers, partners, community and of course the awesome team at Collabora Productivity. “We’re focused on making Open Source rock by creating beautiful, intuitive tools that work online and off, and...

Collabora Online now available on Desktop

Same look. Same code.Your files, your device. We’re excited to share the first release of the new Collabora Office for desktop – bringing the familiar, powerful Collabora Online experience, to run locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Open it and feel instantly at home: ODF or DOCX, quick edits or...

Beyond New Features: The Unsung Work Behind Long-Term Support

When we released Collabora Online 22.05, it marked a major step forward – a new design, LanguageTool integration, and a performance boost across the board. Since then, we’ve delivered new major releases: 23.05, 24.04 and 25.04 each bringing hundreds of improvements and a refreshed user experience. But the story didn’t...

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Collabora Office 25.04 for Mobile – Fast, Friendly, and Feature-Filled

The latest release of Collabora Office 25.04 for Android, iOS and ChromeOS brings powerful document editing and viewing to your fingertips, backed by the same technology that powers our flagship product, Collabora Online. The mobile app offers a highly capable WYSIWYG experience – perfect for quick edits, document reviews, or...

Fixing a critical loadurl performance issue under Android

TL;DR Stalls in document loading were traced back to issues with the long-string handling abilities of Android’s Webview loadUrl method. Implementing an alternative websocket-based approach eliminated the problem. Introduction Everyone wants snappy scrolling and quick loading documents, so a design issue in the Android Webview loadurl method appeared to make...

Collabora Office 24.04 for Mobile

All the latest features in your pocket Following on from our latest releases for Collabora Online in your browser and Collabora Office for desktop, we are pleased to announce Collabora Office for Android and iOS 24.04 is now available to download. Our mobile apps is built upon the foundations of...

New Release for your Pocket – Collabora Office for Mobile 23.05

Powerful Office Productivity in Your Pocket Cambridge, September 21, 2023 – Today we are pleased to announce the availability of a new major release of Collabora Office for Android and iOS. This updated version of our free app includes new and improved productivity features, greater document compatibility and a much...

Collabora Office for mobile now available on F-Droid

The updated release of Collabora Office for Android and iOS now supports opening password protected documents and is available for F-Droid. Thus the open source app running on your mobile devices – mind that ChromeOS is supported too – is again gaining in both features and user support. Now available...

Collabora brings smooth editing to Android and iOS

Cambridge, February 27th, 2020, 12:00 CET – Today we are releasing Collabora Office for Android and iOS which will allow you to edit documents directly on your phone or tablet, guaranteeing your privacy and putting you in full control of your data and documents. This release fully integrates the iOS...

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DigitalPakt Schule 2.0: A once-in-a-decade opportunity to modernise digital learning

Studies carried out in 2013, 2018, and then 2023 show that digital literacy within German schools has been in decline over the past 10 years. Existing approaches are not delivering the desired educational outcomes. Germany’s next major investment in school digitalisation is taking shape. With DigitalPakt Schule 2.0, the German...

From Online to Desktop, Berlin to Bangkok – Here is how your support made a difference

“As we come to the end of another extraordinary year, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our customers, partners, community and of course the awesome team at Collabora Productivity. “We’re focused on making Open Source rock by creating beautiful, intuitive tools that work online and off, and...

Collabora Online now available on Desktop

Same look. Same code.Your files, your device. We’re excited to share the first release of the new Collabora Office for desktop – bringing the familiar, powerful Collabora Online experience, to run locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Open it and feel instantly at home: ODF or DOCX, quick edits or...

11,780 Commits Later: The Journey from 22.05 to 25.04!

What a Difference 3 Years Makes TL;DRCollabora Online 22.05 has reached end-of-support. In the three years since it was released, we’ve shipped 11,780 commits across the suite, including most recently a major UI/UX refresh (contextual toolbars, smart tabs, responsive toolbars, presenter controls, iconised menus). If you’re still on 22.05, now’s...

COOL Days 2025: A Bridge-Building Blast in Budapest

From Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4th June, our annual COOL Days conference brought the Collabora Online community together in beautiful Budapest, and we’re still buzzing from it! Hosted at the stylish Mövenpick Hotel, this year’s event was packed with engaging talks, unforgettable team-building, and plenty of laughs – not to...

Buying Open Source Safely

The Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) is Europe’s largest network of companies and organisations developing, building and using Open Source software. Today they released their outstanding guide on how to buy Open Source Software (German, English). Why is that important? It is easy to read. A cut out and keep...

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COOL Days 2025: A Bridge-Building Blast in Budapest

From Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4th June, our annual COOL Days conference brought the Collabora Online community together in beautiful Budapest, and we’re still buzzing from it! Hosted at the stylish Mövenpick Hotel, this year’s event was packed with engaging talks, unforgettable team-building, and plenty of laughs – not to...

What We Achieved Together in 2024

Going into the second decade of our life, we are enjoying the fruits of many years’ hard work, quality partnerships, wonderful customers, and continual improvement. 2024 was a year of great achievement – product enhancements, partnership milestones, new training opportunities, new partnerships, and of course our unwavering commitment to open-source...

Bringing Collabora Online to the World

With partners and users around the world, Collabora Online is a global solution, allowing any and all to take control of their documents and data. In December alone, we attended three international conferences, in two continents – the Open Source Experience (OSXP) in Paris, the Nextcloud Enterprise Day also in...

Empowering Education with Collabora Online: A Case Study

During the global pandemic, the Friedrich-List-Gemeinschaftsschule in Mössingen, Germany, seamlessly embraced the challenge of transitioning to online learning. Throughout this process, privacy, reliability, and accessibility were held up, with an open-source strategy leveraging Collabora Online as a vital component of their educational toolkit. “It simply works. And it is reliable....

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Wire and Collabora Productivity Announce Strategic Partnership to Strengthen Secure and Sovereign Collaboration

Berlin/Cambridge, January 13, 2026 – Wire, Europe’s leader in secure communication and sovereign collaboration, and Collabora Productivity, the company behind Collabora Online, today announce a strategic partnership to advance secure, interoperable, and sovereignty-focused collaboration capabilities for organizations globally. The partnership brings together two European technology providers with a shared commitment...

Press Release: Bringing Collabora Online to the Desktop

This is a text-based press release. View the full release blog here. Same look. Same code. Your files, your device. Nov 26, 2025 at 12.00 pm GMT / 13.00 pm CET / 7.00 am ET / 4.00 am PT Cambridge, November 26, 2025 – Today, Collabora Productivity is excited to...

Collabora Office 25.04 – Powering Productive, Private, and Fast Desktop Editing

While Collabora Online is our flagship product – delivering best-in-class, in-browser collaborative document editing – we know that working offline remains a key requirement for many users and organisations. That’s why we’re excited to announce the latest release of our powerful desktop suite: Collabora Office 25.04. Collabora Office 25.04 shares...

Collabora Office 25.04 for Mobile – Fast, Friendly, and Feature-Filled

The latest release of Collabora Office 25.04 for Android, iOS and ChromeOS brings powerful document editing and viewing to your fingertips, backed by the same technology that powers our flagship product, Collabora Online. The mobile app offers a highly capable WYSIWYG experience – perfect for quick edits, document reviews, or...

COOL 25.04 – Bringing the Latest in Collaborative Office Productivity

Watch the video above for a quick run through the latest features! Collabora Online 25.04 is our major annual release, and the culmination of a year’s worth of development, innovation, and refinement. Packed with new features, performance boosts, improved interoperability, and enhanced accessibility, this release is just what our users...

Collabora and allotropia merge

This deal unites the largest team of corporate Office engineers to deliver on Collabora Productivity’s mission to restore Digital Sovereignty to its users, while making Open Source Office Rock. It supercharges Collabora’s Online Office products and services portfolio with rich German language capability, deeper experience of vertical applications, new Web...

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Collabora Productivity contributions in LibreOffice 26.2

For over 12 years, Collabora Productivity has been privileged to work as one part of a broader community of enthusiastic developers, both volunteers and paid, collaborating to make an open source office suite that is free to download and trusted by millions of users. The LibreOffice codebase is the foundation...

Collabora Online now available on Desktop

Same look. Same code.Your files, your device. We’re excited to share the first release of the new Collabora Office for desktop – bringing the familiar, powerful Collabora Online experience, to run locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Open it and feel instantly at home: ODF or DOCX, quick edits or...

11,780 Commits Later: The Journey from 22.05 to 25.04!

What a Difference 3 Years Makes TL;DRCollabora Online 22.05 has reached end-of-support. In the three years since it was released, we’ve shipped 11,780 commits across the suite, including most recently a major UI/UX refresh (contextual toolbars, smart tabs, responsive toolbars, presenter controls, iconised menus). If you’re still on 22.05, now’s...

Collabora Office 25.04 – Powering Productive, Private, and Fast Desktop Editing

While Collabora Online is our flagship product – delivering best-in-class, in-browser collaborative document editing – we know that working offline remains a key requirement for many users and organisations. That’s why we’re excited to announce the latest release of our powerful desktop suite: Collabora Office 25.04. Collabora Office 25.04 shares...

Collabora Office 25.04 for Mobile – Fast, Friendly, and Feature-Filled

The latest release of Collabora Office 25.04 for Android, iOS and ChromeOS brings powerful document editing and viewing to your fingertips, backed by the same technology that powers our flagship product, Collabora Online. The mobile app offers a highly capable WYSIWYG experience – perfect for quick edits, document reviews, or...

COOL 25.04 – Bringing the Latest in Collaborative Office Productivity

Watch the video above for a quick run through the latest features! Collabora Online 25.04 is our major annual release, and the culmination of a year’s worth of development, innovation, and refinement. Packed with new features, performance boosts, improved interoperability, and enhanced accessibility, this release is just what our users...

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Beyond New Features: The Unsung Work Behind Long-Term Support

When we released Collabora Online 22.05, it marked a major step forward – a new design, LanguageTool integration, and a performance boost across the board. Since then, we’ve delivered new major releases: 23.05, 24.04 and 25.04 each bringing hundreds of improvements and a refreshed user experience. But the story didn’t...

A Brief History of File Formats: DOC vs DOCX vs ODF…

Save As? TL;DRWhen you click “Save As” in your favourite word processor, you probably don’t think too much about the file format. Yet file formats like .doc, .docx, and .odt shape how we create and share documents—but they can also create headaches. Here’s a quick guide to their history, differences,...

Fixing a critical loadurl performance issue under Android

TL;DR Stalls in document loading were traced back to issues with the long-string handling abilities of Android’s Webview loadUrl method. Implementing an alternative websocket-based approach eliminated the problem. Introduction Everyone wants snappy scrolling and quick loading documents, so a design issue in the Android Webview loadurl method appeared to make...

New Features in 2 Weeks? A Success Story of Productive Pivoting Spreadsheets

At Collabora Productivity, we like to be productive by name and by nature. One recent feature fix for Danish insurance company – balticfinance, has shown this to be the case. Ten working days after being requested, the updated pivot table functionality was delivered. Pivot tables are an extremely powerful feature,...

Why LibreOffice Certification Matters

The new certification programme, announced on Wednesday by the Document Foundation (TDF), for professionals who train and migrate to LibreOffice as a service, is a watermark for the growth and development of businesses in the Open Source productivity ecosystem. Thirteen newly qualified individuals form the basis of the programme, representing...

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Collabora Online Releases

Supported versions 21.11 Release notes 22.05 Release notes 23.05 Release notes 24.04 Release notes

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How to Manage Bibliographic Data With Zotero and Collabora Online

  Collabora Online & Zotero Zotero is an open-source reference management software allowing users to manage bibliographic data and related research materials. It allows users to share bibliography libraries and notes, choosing from different citation styles. Collabora Online can now browse all the existing records of one’s Zotero library, enabling...

Talks and Slides by Collabora Productivity at FOSDEM 2023

FOSDEM 2023 – The Talks and Slides from the Collabora Productivity Team FOSDEM has returned to Brussels! It was great meeting again in person on Europe’s largest open-source conference for developers and tech-enthusiasts. We’d like to express our gratitude to the community, the organizing team and the many volunteers that...

Collabora Productivity at FOSDEM 2023

FOSDEM 2023 – Back in Brussels FOSDEM 2023 is back home in Brussels. Meet the Collabora Productivity team at Europe’s largest gathering of open-source developers and have a chat, some fries or a beer with us (also: make sure to grab some stickers!). As usual, our engineers will be giving...

Collabora at the Univention Summit 2023

The Univention Summit has returned to its traditional date. Before the pandemic, the event in Bremen was an annual kick-off for showing how valuable open source is for digital sovereignty in companies, educational institutions and public administration. We are pleased to have been able to contribute to the success of...

Thank you for a marvellous 2022!

Thank You for Everything We Achieved Together in 2022 欄 At the end of the year, we like to look back at what we have achieved as a team in cooperation with our worldwide network of partners and the community. Luckily, the year 2022 was less dominated by the global...

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Why the German Staatendokumentation (State Documentation) Chooses Collabora Online

Discover how the Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl (Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum) leverages Collabora Online, a secure and GDPR-compliant cloud office solution, to streamline operations and protect sensitive data. “Collabora Online is the solution for uncomplicated use of documents in a public authority environment, which fits seamlessly into...

openDesk – Collabora Online brings Digital Freedom to European Government

Discover openDesk - a pioneering project promoting digital freedom for European governments! In partnership with top open-source experts, this initiative enhances digital sovereignty in public administration. openDesk provides a sustainable alternative to proprietary software, helping governments control their data. With Collabora Online as a key component, it creates a secure...

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