Thank you! And thanks too to Tor Lillqvist for his patience and hard work here. This effort is made possible by the kind support of those who buy LibreOffice Vanilla in the Mac app store. As such Collabora joined the Universal App Quickstart Programme back in July and has been doing work on enabling LibreOffice for M1 since then. Nevertheless, given the code size of LibreOffice, for the best performance it makes most sense to have a pre-optimized native binary. Apple ensures this by a translation layer, so that software for Intel Macs can be used, using Rosetta translation.

With the launch of the new Apple devices nearing, it is important that suitable software arrives around the same time as new hardware. Here we update you on the status of the work, and what needs to be done.

The code needs to be prepared for M1, step by step. This of course means work for Collabora’s LibreOffice team too. It is always an exciting time to see freshly minted ARM based silicon arriving in the form of Apple’s massive shift to the ARM based M1.

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