Fidus Writer 4.0: A Decade’s Largest Update Brings Powerful Import/Export Features and Accessibility

johanneswilm, April 5, 2025

We are thrilled to announce the release of Fidus Writer 4.0, the most significant update to our collaborative academic writing platform in nearly a decade! Originally planned as version 3.12, this release grew into a major milestone packed with transformative features, accessibility enhancements, and technical upgrades. After rigorous testing and refinements (now at version 4.0.5), Fidus… read more

The European Union must keep funding free software

johanneswilm, July 16, 2024

Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part of European Commission’s Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism (see for example NLnet’s calls). This year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, we notice that Next Generation Internet is not mentioned any more as part of… read more

Fidus Writer receives EU Funding through NLnet

johanneswilm, April 4, 2024

Fidus Writer, the open-source real-time collaborative web-based online editor for academia, has secured funding from the NGI0 Entrust Trustworthiness and Data Sovereignty initiative. This funding, provided by NLnet with support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet program, aims to enhance Fidus Writer’s capabilities and broaden its reach within the academic community. Project Overview Fidus Writer has… read more

Fidus Writer can now export comments to ODT and DOCX files

johanneswilm, March 27, 2023

Fidus Writer 3.11.11 is not a major release, but it does contain some features that a lot of users have been waiting on for a long time. Most importantly: The ability to export comments on documents (and their answers) to DOCX and ODT files. Comments are exported directly to ODT files. In most cases that… read more

Introducing the Fidus Writer Website plugin

johanneswilm, February 8, 2023

There are several ways of adding Fidus Writer to a publishing workflow, such as the OJS plugin that allows it to be part of a professional peer review process or the git-repo plugin that allows the publishing of books to a GitLab or GitHub repository. And now there is one more way: Fidus Writer Website…. read more

Fidus Writer 3.11: The anniversary release

johanneswilm, November 7, 2022

We released the first beta of Fidus Writer in 2012. Ten years later, multiple research universities, publishers, libraries, and individual academics are using it as part of their publication workflows. Long-form text writing tools take a lot of work: Book writers update and amend their texts for years or decades. The tools they are using… read more

Fidus Writer and Open Journal Systems

johanneswilm, August 19, 2022

The Open Journal Systems (OJS) is probably the most widely used open source management system for academic journals as it handles the peer review process. When we started Fidus Writer 10 years ago, OJS was one of the first systems we tried to connect with. Over the years this integration improved and has now reached… read more

Fidus Writer 3.10 with folders and downloadable document templates

johanneswilm, July 29, 2021

Folders can be used to organize your documents and books

We have released Fidus Writer 3.10! There are tons of features and bug fixes. The two most significant new features are likely folders to organize your documents and books and the downloadable document templates. Read the full changelog for details. The folder feature and better support for document and book sharing were sponsored by the Open… read more

Fidus Writer 3.9 handles complex document merges

johanneswilm, December 1, 2020

The cold season has arrived in Europe, and we have been back behind our home office desks, getting another Fidus Writer version ready for release. Fidus Writer 3.9 is packed with features and fixes. Let’s look at three features that stand out: Merging offline edits Letting users go offline and come back online without ever losing their work is a… read more

Fidus Writer 3.8 brings cross-references and copyright information

johanneswilm, March 9, 2020

It has been about half a year and we are ready with a new release. Fidus Writer 3.8 continues to bring a number of new features. Try Fidus Writer 3.8 out on FidusWriter.com or install it as a snap on your own Linux computer. And let us know in our forum what you think about… read more