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Collabora's CODE 26.04 Release Might Be Its Biggest One Yet
Collabora is a UK-based company that builds open source office suite solutions based on LibreOffice. These are designed to run both on a browser and locally, integrating directly into an organization's infrastructure.
Their flagship offering is Collabora Online (COOL), the paid, enterprise-grade version that ships with support agreements, long-term maintenance, and thoroughly tested updates.
Complementing that is Collabora Office, a desktop app for Linux, Windows, and macOS that mirrors the same interface. However, there's a third edition called Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) that runs the same codebase as COOL but gets new features first and doesn't cost a dime.
It has now received a new release that delivers a range of upgrades, including some AI ones that are quite interesting.
Calc gets AI integration aimed at data analysis and formula debugging. A floating indicator now appears on cells with errors, opening a quick menu to inspect and fix the issue in place.
Per-user sheet views are another useful addition for teams, where each person working on a shared spreadsheet can now set up their own filters and column or row arrangements without touching anyone else's view.
Calculated values (left) and new functions (right) on Calc.
Similarly, pivot tables now support calculated values, so you can build calculated columns from existing spreadsheet data, and table styles arrive with preset themes covering light, medium, dark, and custom options.
A batch of new functions is also included; they are CHOOSECOLS, CHOOSEROWS, DROP, EXPAND, HSTACK, TAKE, TEXTAFTER, TEXTBEFORE, TEXTSPLIT, TOCOL, TOROW, VSTACK, WRAPCOLS, and WRAPROWS.
AI assistance is now available in Writer as well, helping with text suggestions, rewrites, and general writing tasks without leaving the document. Document comparison receives an overhaul too.