Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) 3.0 released

Dec 21, 2017 10:00 GMT  ·  By

Collabora Productivity, through Michael Meeks, is proud to inform Softpedia today on the general availability of the Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) 3.0 LibreOffice-based office suite.

Collabora Productivity driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud (LibreOffice Online), and they worked very hard during the past year to bring you CODE 3.0, which boasts, for the very first time, full-featured editing functionality from the desktop version of the LibreOffice open-source office suite to the browser.

Users will now be able to enjoy complex writer numbering or powerful spreadsheet filtering with the new CODE 3.0 release. More such complex UI functionality will be coming to future versions of Collabora Online, sharing the user experience with LibreOffice both online and on the desktop.

"CODE 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," said Collabora. "It allows editing of richly formatted documents directly from a web browser, with excellent support for all popular office file formats."

New Collabora Online released coming soon for enterprises

CODE's purpose is to give interested developers an early look at the features that Collabora Productivity wants to implement in their LibreOffice-based Collabora Online office suite for enterprises, so that the next major release will be stable and ready for mass deployments.

Therefore, Collabora Online Development Edition 3.0 is free to download, and Collabora encourages developers and end users alike to update their CODE 2.0 installations to this new version as soon as possible, try it out, and maybe send some feedback or patches to improve the functionality of LibreOffice Online and LibreOffice.

CODE 3.0 is currently capable of editing text documents in popular formats like ODT, DOC, or DOCX, spreadsheets in the ODS, XLS, or XLSX formats, and presentations in the ODP, PPT, or PPTX formats. It's also compatible with file sharing solutions from ownCloud and Nextcloud, Seafile, EGroupware, and Pydio.

CODE has more than two million Docker image downloads, and it can be easily installed from the Univention app store on the Debian-based Univention Corporate Server (UCS) operating system. To download Collabora Online Development Edition 3.0, please visit the project's official homepage at https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/.

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