CODE 3.0

The past months have been crazily busy as we’ve tried to get people’s documents back under their own control with Collabora Online. Having brought our LibreOffice- based basic editor to the browser, we’ve been making it easy for people to play with it by partnering it with all sorts of open source file syncing solutions from OwnCloud and Nextcloud to Pydio, Seafile and others. We’ve seen two million docker image downloads of CODE too, and now feature as an easy-to-install Univention app.

We’ve also been working on the next version: 3.0 which ships the infrastructure for bringing the first, full-feature LibreOffice dialogs, familiar from the PC version, to be used in the browser.

One of the traditional challenges of a browser-based office suite has been trading collaboration against a limited feature-set. With 3.0 we start to bring the richness of complex writer numbering, or powerful spreadsheet filtering into the browser. This sharing of user experience with LibreOffice will enable new UI features to debut in both online and PC clients, driving improvement in both.

That breaks the traditional dichotomy: of web-deployment and collaboration vs a rich feature set. You can have both! Our vision of delivering seamless and powerful documentediting through the browser is finally here.