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Collabora Online 2.1.2 released

Eloy Crespo 7 Comments

Cambridge, United Kingdom – June 21, 2017 – Collabora Productivity, the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, is proud to announce a new release of its flagship enterprise-ready cloud document suite – Collabora Online 2.1.2, including new features and improvements.

The Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) has been updated too.

What’s new in Collabora Online 2.1.2?

The following features and improvements are new since Collabora Online 2.1.1:

  • Support for avatars: The integrators can specify a pictures / avatars for the users of the documents via WOPI extension. 

  • Find & replace dialog in the text documents, in addition to the previously available Search functionality.
  • Support for custom buttons in the toolbar. Collabora Online now introduces API for integrators to add their own functionality into the toolbars.
  • Support for hashed admin passwords.
  • loolconfig, new tool to configure Collabora Online: Primarily for creating new passwords, in the future we may add other configuration settings, so that it is not necessary to edit loolwsd.xml manually.
  • Automatic detection of links in the comments.
  • Various smaller fixes.

 

Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) 2.1.2

Together with the release of Collabora Online 2.1.2 we will also release version 2.1.2 of the development edition of Collabora Online: CODE. The development edition is aimed at home users and contains the latest and greatest developments. We want as many people as possible to try it out and get back control of their own online documents. We’d also love to get people involved in our efforts to make LibreOffice Online even better. Download the Docker Image, enjoy using it at home and why not participate in the project too!

For more information on CODE, and info on how to get it, please check out our CODE page.

 

Online demo

You can get an online demo of Collabora Online and try it out yourself right now!

 

Try the Online Demo

 

About Collabora Productivity:
Collabora Productivity is the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, providing a range of products and consulting to enterprise and government. Powered by the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers in the world, it is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and community. Collabora Office for Desktop and Collabora Online provide a business-hardened office suite with long-term, multi-platform support. Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora, the global software consultancy dedicated to providing the benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specialising in mobile, automotive and consumer electronics industries. For more information, visit www.collaboraoffice.com or follow @CollaboraOffice on Twitter.

Collabora Online 2.1.1 released

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Cambridge, United Kingdom – May 23, 2017 – Collabora Productivity, the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, is proud to announce a new release of its flagship enterprise-ready cloud document suite – Collabora Online 2.1.1, including new features and improvements. This is the first release after the major Collabora Online 2.1 release a few weeks ago.

The Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) has been updated too.

What’s new in Collabora Online 2.1.1?

The following features and improvements are new since Collabora Online 2.1:

  • Active cell reference (Name Box) in Calc
  • State of the Change tracking is now visible in the menu via check marks
  • Improved animation of the comments
  • Use seccomp’s Berkley Packet Filters to drastically restrict the kernel APIs surface available to our contained document processes
  • Content Security Policy now includes the Referer too, for easier integration in multi-host environments
  • Numerous Calc usability improvements
  • New file types that can be edited were added or improved, including PDF and HTML
  • Many other fixes and improvements

Cells A2 to A4 are selected, as shown in the Active cell reference (Name Box) next to the formula bar

State of the Change tracking is now visible in the menu via check marks

Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) 2.1.1

Together with the release of Collabora Online 2.1.1 we will also release version 2.1.1 of the development edition of Collabora Online: CODE. The development edition is aimed at home users and contains the latest and greatest developments. We want as many people as possible to try it out and get back control of their own online documents. We’d also love to get people involved in our efforts to make LibreOffice Online even better. Download the Docker Image, enjoy using it at home and why not participate in the project too!

For more information on CODE, and info on how to get it, please check out our CODE page.

 

Online demo

You can get an online demo of Collabora Online and try it out yourself right now!

 
Try the Online Demo
 
 

About Collabora Productivity:
Collabora Productivity is the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, providing a range of products and consulting to enterprise and government. Powered by the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers in the world, it is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and community. Collabora Office for Desktop and Collabora Online provide a business-hardened office suite with long-term, multi-platform support. Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora, the global software consultancy dedicated to providing the benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specialising in mobile, automotive and consumer electronics industries. For more information, visit www.collaboraoffice.com or follow @CollaboraOffice on Twitter.

Collabora Online 2.1 released

Richard Brock 3 Comments

Cambridge, United Kingdom – May 4, 2017 – Collabora Productivity, the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, is pleased to announce a new major release of its flagship enterprise-ready cloud document suite – Collabora Online 2.1, including many new features and improvements.

Collabora Online is a powerful LibreOffice-based online office suite allowing you to access document editing through your web browser. It is interoperable with all major document, spreadsheet and presentation file formats, and easy to integrate into your infrastructure, allowing you to keep in full control of your own data; on-premise or in the cloud.

What’s new in Collabora Online 2.1?

Collabora Online 2.1 has many improvements under the hood and lots of new features that make the collaborative editing experience even better. When combined with one of our many partners solutions Collabora Online is an excellent choice for enterprises wanting a powerful office suite for confidential documents on-premise or for Hosting and Cloud businesses who wish to include online Office Suite functionality into their service offering.

“Months of hard work from the Collabora team has made this release really impressive”, said Michael Meeks, General Manager of Collabora Productivity. “The list of improvements and new features show that Collabora Online is going to be the best online office suite out there.”

Highlights of the changes since Collabora Online 2.0:

  • Based on the recently released enterprise-hardened Collabora Office 5.3
    • improved interoperability, file-filters and feature-set
    • improved anti-aliased rendering and performance
  • Scalability improvements
    • reduced memory consumption
    • reduced CPU usage, with increased responsiveness
    • bandwidth reduction by avoiding redundant tile updates
    • improved buffering, queueing and traffic management
  • Updated localizations
  • Features, including:
    • Improved comment rendering as a native overlay
    • Change tracking – turn change tracking on or off, and accept, reject or add comments to red-line document changes
    • Rendering much larger spreadsheets of up-to half a million rows
    • Formatting, and decimal separator support by locale in spreadsheets
    • New responsive design, including a minimized UI when in read-only mode
    • New Insert Special Characters dialog
    • Pivot table refresh
    • Non-printing character rendering option
    • Initial Input Method support for Asian languages

Getting Collabora Online

Collabora Online is suitable for large scale deployment, comes with an SLA, Long Term Support with signed security updates and implements collaborative editing of richly formatted documents directly from a web browser.

Enterprises interested in using Collabora Online can check out our home page for more information on partner integrations and online demos. For tailored solutions, contact sales@collaboraoffice.com.

Hosting and Cloud businesses that wish to add Collabora Online to their product portfolio can become a partner by filling in the partner form or contacting sales@collaboraoffice.com.

Collabora Online is only one part of a larger Enteprise File Sync & Share, Groupware, or Hosting solution. Collabora is excited to go to market with a long list of Partners each of which has an integration.

Online demo

You can get an online demo of Collabora Online and try it out yourself right now!

Try the Online Demo

 

Screenshots

Screenshot of Collabora Online with improved comment rendering and Tracked Changes

 

Screenshot of a complex Excel file (xlsx), with multiple people editing at the same time

 

Screenshot of a presentation file in Collabora Online, with 2 people editing at the same time

 

Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) 2.1

Together with the release of Collabora Online 2.1 we will also release version 2.1 of the development edition of Collabora Online: CODE. The development edition is aimed at home users and contains the latest and greatest developments. We want as many people as possible to try it out and get back control of their own online documents. We’d also love to get people involved in our efforts to make LibreOffice Online even better. Download the Docker Image, enjoy using it at home and why not participate in the project too!

For more information on CODE, and info on how to get it, please check out our CODE page.

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About Collabora Productivity:
Collabora Productivity is the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, providing a range of products and consulting to enterprise and government. Powered by the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers in the world, it is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and community. Collabora Office for Desktop and Collabora Online provide a business-hardened office suite with long-term, multi-platform support. Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora, the global software consultancy dedicated to providing the benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specialising in mobile, automotive and consumer electronics industries. For more information, visit www.collaboraoffice.com or follow @CollaboraOffice on Twitter.

Collabora Online Development Edition 2.0 released

Richard Brock 9 Comments

CODE 2.0 (Collabora Online Development Edition) now includes collaborative editing

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Cambridge, United Kingdom – November 2, 2016 – Collabora Productivity, the developers behind LibreOffice Online, announced the release of CODE 2.0, including the latest and most requested feature from customers: collaborative editing. Developers and home users are encouraged to update, try this out and get involved with the latest developments – however for enterprise production users are recommended to wait for Collabora Online 2.0 – due soon.

code_v2_calc_detailCODE is the LibreOffice Online solution with the latest developments, perfect for home users that want to integrate their own online Office Suite with their preferred File Share and Sync solution. It allows editing of richly formatted documents directly from a web browser, with excellent support for all popular office file formats, including text documents (docx, doc, odt,…), spreadsheets (xlsx, xls, ods,…) and presentations (pptx, ppt, odp,…). For enterprises that look for a scalable, commercially supported version with Long Term Support, signed security updates and a SLA, Collabora Productivity provides Collabora Online.

“Collabora Productivity shows with this release that they’ve done some amazing work” said Holger Dyroff, Managing Director at ownCloud. “The Collaborative Editing functionality was urgently requested by our enterprise users and the ownCloud Community! Thanks to Collabora’s commitment to Open Source, we now have an online office suite inside ownCloud that includes full collaboration – easy to use. With Collabora Online for ownCloud Enterprise you can access your office documents online, author new content, share your work and collaboratively work on the same document with others, while others can see changes in real time and take over editing.”

More info about Collabora Online in ownCloud

“Collaborative file editing is something our community and customers are really interested in and Collabora Productivity has delivered this” said Frank Karlitschek, Managing Director at Nextcloud. “We’re proud to be partner with Collabora, the creators of LibreOffice Online, to deliver scalable, secure enterprise solutions to customers together.”

More info about Collabora Online in Nextcloud

“We have just released Pydio 7 with LibreOffice Online functionality with CODE for home users and Collabora Online for enterprises” said Charles du Jeu, CEO of Pydio. “Collabora Productivity has shown LibreOffice Online solves real user problems and is here to stay.”

More info about Collabora Online in Pydio

Last year, in December, after a lot of work, Collabora Productivity released the first edition of CODE, bringing easy to integrate LibreOffice Online to the community for the very first time. The response of the community to this milestone was amazing and over the year interest in the project increased continuously, while Collabora Productivity continued to release frequent updates. Now, another huge milestone has been reached with the release of CODE 2.0, including the much requested collaborative editing on CODE.

“We want to thank our outstanding partners for making LibreOffice Online available to their community and customers, and helping our goal of Collabore Online on every cloud, everywhere” said Michael Meeks, General Manager at Collabora Productivity. “This latest development release, with collaborative editing, is a huge step in this exciting journey and we are looking forward to grow this project even more.”

code_v2_impress_detailThe goal of CODE is to get as many people as possible to try it out and get back control of their own online documents. Visit https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/ to read how to set up CODE in your preferred File Share and Sync solution, or to learn about how to participate in this great project.

Screenshots

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Collaborative editing on a text document in CODE, with comments and replies to comments.

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Collaborative editing in a spreadsheet in CODE.

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Collaborative editing in a presentation in CODE, selecting text and elements.

Try it out

  • Developers & home users:
    Visit https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/ to read how to set up CODE in your preferred File Share and Sync solution, or to learn about how to participate in this great project.
  • Enterprises:
    Enterprise production users are recommended to wait for Collabora Online 2.0 – due soon. In the meanwhile, try out the online demos of Collabora Online 1.0 in Nextcloud, ownCloud, Seafile and Pydio.

Want to offer Collabora Online to your clients?

Add LibreOffice Online functionality to your products! Simply fill out the “Become a partner” form and learn how you can do this.

About Collabora Productivity:

Collabora Productivity is the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, providing a range of products and consulting to enterprise and government. Powered by the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers in the world, it is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and community. Collabora Office for Desktop and Collabora Online provide a business-hardened office suite with long-term, multi-platform support. Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora, the global software consultancy dedicated to providing the benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specialising in mobile, automotive and consumer electronics industries. For more information, visit www.collaboraoffice.com or follow @CollaboraOffice on Twitter.

About ownCloud:

Organizations that must share confidential data internally and externally rely on ownCloud’s on-premises enterprise Universal File Access platform. Only ownCloud gives IT the visibility and control required to manage sensitive data, preserve business processes and integrate with existing compliant infrastructures while offering users the modern collaboration experience they demand. This is made possible through ownCloud’s open, modular architecture, extreme extensibility and unique federated cloud sharing capabilities. Company headquarters are in Nuremberg, Germany. For more information, visit: http://www.owncloud.com.

About Nextcloud:

Nextcloud offers a unique-in-the-industry fully open source solution for on-premise data handling and communication with a uncompromising focus on security and privacy. Nextcloud brings together universal access to data with next-generation secure communication and collaboration capabilities under direct control of IT and integrated with existing compliant infrastructure. Nextcloud’s open, modular architecture, emphasis on security and advanced federation capabilities enable modern enterprises to leverage their existing assets within and across the borders of their organization. For more information, visit https://nextcloud.com or follow @Nextclouders on Twitter.

About Pydio:

Pydio is the world’s largest Open Source file sharing and synchronization focused project for the enterprise. Pydio is a founder owned company. The Pydio Project delivers a sustainable balance between enterprise customers needs and Open-Source collaborative spirit. Sold in 25 countries, from Cupertino to Singapore, Pydio is used by leading brands such as Nikon, Ion Geophysical, and Guitar Center. Pydio also serves education and government clients such as Cambridge University (UK) and ADEME (France). It currently has over one million downloads.

CODE updates

Richard Brock 1 Comment

code-logoWe’ve have released another Collabora Online Development Edition update. We also want to share some info about our recent release with Pydio, a popular Source file share and sync solution.

Updates

This latest update includes the following improvements:

  • With shared editing viewers can now view other parts of the document, while the editor is typing. They don’t automatically follow the editor’s cursor any more. Viewers can simply use the ‘users’ status bar popup to quickly jump to where the editor is working on the document.
  • Better handling of Writer and Calc comments
  • More descriptive error messages
  • Better logging
  • Stability fixes

How to update

Simply update with:

docker pull collabora/code

Pydio

 

pydio logoYesterday we announced the news that Pydio has integrated LibreOffice Online functionality in their latest release, Pydio 7.

Home users can set up Pydio with CODE following the instructions provided by Pydio. For enterprise users, Pydio offers Collabora Online, the commercially supported version with Long  Term Support, signed security updates and a SLA. More info about Pydio and Collabora Online.