That’s a nice attack surface, it’d be a shame if someone hacked it… What appears to be straightforward functionality – upload a document, edit together, save changes – actually requires defending against sophisticated attacks across multiple vectors simultaneously. Every document becomes a potential weapon. Every user session creates new vulnerability...
At Collabora Online we say don’t redevelop the wheel, integrate it! The temptation is real, modern browser technologies offer such a rich baseline of functionality why wouldn’t you consider developing your own editor? Rich text editors are abundant, collaborative frameworks exist and the fundamental problems of saving, formatting and typing...
Tired of retyping the same phrases, boilerplate text, or technical terms? With AutoText in Collabora Online, you can save and instantly reuse commonly used snippets — streamlining your document creation process. Whether it’s standard replies, legal clauses, or frequently used expressions, AutoText helps you stay consistent, save time, and reduce...
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...
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...
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...
For many years, people worried about digital sovereignty in a Microsoft environment have used on-premise Sharepoint and the embedded Microsoft Office Online (MOO) editors to allow users to collaborate on internal documents with private or confidential data. However – Microsoft has announced that Office Online Server will reach end of...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
The next major release of Collabora Online Development Edition is here! This release brings major improvements with AI-assisted workflows, new editing features, smarter document review, ever-improving document interoperability, accessibility, and of course everyday user experience. Writer gains smarter review tools, Markdown workflows, easier style access and better navigation for long...
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 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...
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...
→ 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...
→ 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...
Integrated AI on your terms. Far more native on Windows, macOS and Linux. And everything CODE 26.04 brings. Back in November we shared the very first release of the new Collabora Office for desktop – the beautiful, familiar, powerful Collabora Online experience, running locally on Windows, macOS and Linux. We...
COOL Days 2026 brought more than 100 staff, partners, customers, contributors and community members together in Hamburg for three days of talks, panels, workshops, roadmap discussions, demos, good food and good conversation. Held at betahaus Gänsemarkt from 27–29 April, COOL Days 2026 welcomed people from across the open-source, public-sector, education,...
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....
We don’t just work from a desk. We work from trains, coffee shops and waiting rooms. And yet for many, mobile document apps are a compromise. Perhaps useful to quickly open a file, check a detail, or make a small change, but often falling short when it comes to faithfully...
TL;DRModern open-source software isn’t built in one place or along a single path. Tools like Git enable independent development while preserving shared history, provenance, and open collaboration. This allows different organisations to move at different speeds, and supports long-term users without central coordination. Large projects such as the Linux kernel...
TL;DRCollabora Online 23.05 has reached end-of-support. Over its lifetime we did the quiet, unglamorous work that matters most – backporting fixes, hardening dependencies and shipping security patches so that our customers stayed safe. In the same period we also shipped more than 19,000 commits across three major releases at an...
Docker Pulls 0 Commits 0 + Contributors 0 + Github stars 0 + Languages 0 + The journey so far: Humble Beginnings The very first release – Collabora Online 1.0 – shipped ten years ago, in June 2016! In many ways, the project traces back a little further: a flurry...
TL;DR This is Part 3 of a three-part series on Collabora’s Security Architecture detailing the company’s multi-layered ‘security onion’ strategy. In Part 1 we explained how Collabora Productivity’s security strategy is built on organisation compliance from our ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certifications and large-scale continuous automated crash testing, fuzzing...
TL;DR In Part 2, we continue revealing Collabora’s multi-layered ‘security onion’ by exploring the architecture of Collabora Online’s three main processes. We explain how the architecture isolates each document within its own secure container, strictly limiting system calls and filesystem access through technologies such as Seccomp-bpf. CoolWSD is the only...
TL;DR Collabora Productivity employs a multi-layered security onion strategy that covers many areas. In Part 1, we explain how our security is built on rigorous organisational compliance, including ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certifications. This framework is bolstered by continuous automated testing, such as large-scale continuous fuzzing campaign and regular...
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 Gabriel Masei who has been contributing to Collabora Office since 2019. About Gabriel Gabriel...
Welcome 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 Ezinne Nnamani, a Software Engineer who thrives on the transparency and shared ownership of the...
“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...
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 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...
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...
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...
When organisations talk about secure document handling, the conversation often jumps straight to infrastructure, hosting, and technical architecture. Those things matter, but they are only part of the picture. Security depends just as much on what users are able to do inside the document workflow. For integrators building platforms for...
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...
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...
All you need to deploy Collabora Online on your Kubernetes setup, is applying these configuration settings on your installation of Collabora Online. This is a test example ulitising Minikube. For full deployment and installation guides please see the Collabora Online SDK. This covers Helm, Kubernetes Ingress Controller (both Nginx and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It is interesting to see Euro-Office launched, with Nextcloud in charge. We would like to provide some initial thoughts here to address people’s questions. Open Source is International One of the great joys of FLOSS is working with a diverse international community, and being able to collaborate with lots of...
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...
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...
Monday, April 27, 2026 – PDV GmbH and Collabora Productivity have entered into a strategic development and sales partnership. The aim of the collaboration is to further expand the integration of Collabora Online into PDV’s VIS-Suite, which was introduced with a version update. Collabora Online is a leading open-source office...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
We’re continually contributing improvements to the LibreOffice code-base as a member of the community (Collabora Online Forum). Here are a few highlights of the last week’s work on behalf of our customers. “Collabora is a commercial organisation; of course we serve the needs of our paying customers, but it is...
Collabora Online Available Through STRATO HiDrive Office Working in partnership with Collabora Productivity, STRATO has launched its collaborative office documents solution – HiDrive Office. Based on Collabora Online, HiDrive Office provides business customers with a powerful office document solution that delivers a complete range of collaborative functionality. HiDrive Office supports...
Late in 2021, the Log4j software vulnerability hit the news. This was, and remains, a widespread security risk that impacted Government institutions and commercial organisations that knowingly or unknowingly installed this free piece of software distributed by the non-profit Apache Software Foundation. Log4j seems not to be the best advertisement...
The latest update of Collabora Online brings several improvements regarding accessibility and the user interface. Also, the rotation of images has been accelerated, making the experience much better. Inside this blog, we are highlighting some of the latest features of the Collabora Online 21.11.2.4 update. All the technical details of...
Managing Change As humans we’re bad at change; we much prefer what we know and actively protect the status quo. Like it or not, the uncertainty we’ve all experienced over the last two years has forced change upon us. This has challenged organisations to find real alternative solutions to new...
FOSDEM 2022 – The Talks and Slides from the Collabora Team Whether on-site in Brussels or as an online event like the last two years, FOSDEM is and remains the largest and most important gathering of Open-Source developers in Europe. We’d like to express our gratitude to the community and...
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...
