"LibreOffice Online (LOOL) is the cloud-based version of LibreOffice. You could be forgiven if you haven't heard of it. Its development has been largely dormant since 2020. That will soon change. Earlier this week, TDF announced that LOOL is getting a fresh start. The news follows a Document Foundation community vote earlier this month."
"What makes the decision a little stranger than it may seem, though, is that there already is an existing online browser-based flavor of LibreOffice. It's called Collabora Online, or COOL for short. It was announced in 2015 and has been updated regularly since: it's very much still around, and the current version is COOL 25.04."
"Collabora, founded in 2005, is a for-profit company based in Cambridge, UK, and as The Register reported six years ago it provides the majority of the full-time paid developers working on the LibreOffice codebase. As we reported from the FOSDEM conference in 2025, it is still actively working on both the local, standalone version of LibreOffice, as well as on its own collaborative online edition."
LibreOffice Online (LOOL), the cloud-based version of LibreOffice, has been pulled from the Document Foundation's attic of retired projects and is resuming active development. The project had been frozen since 2020, despite an open letter calling for its revival in 2022. This decision follows a recent community vote. However, the revival is notable because Collabora Online (COOL) already exists as an established browser-based LibreOffice alternative, regularly updated and currently at version 25.04. Collabora, a for-profit company founded in 2005, provides most full-time developers for LibreOffice and maintains both the standalone version and COOL, which includes a free Development Edition (CODE).
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