LibreOffice Online Project Reopened With New Community Focus

The Document Foundation has formally revived LibreOffice Online, reversing its 2022 decision that had frozen the project and moved it to the “attic.” The Board has rescinded the previous votes, reopened the repository, and invited the community to resume development under upstream stewardship.

It’s worth noting that the whole thing is still a long way from being a ready-to-use product, with the code requiring further work, review, and modernization before it is production-ready.

For those unfamiliar with LibreOffice Online, it’s the web-based version of LibreOffice. In other words, instead of installing the desktop application, users access the office suite through a web browser, with LibreOffice Online rendering documents on a server and streaming the interface to the browser.