04 Aug 2025
LibreOffice project and community recap: July 2025
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…
- We started July with some very positive news: a Danish Ministry is switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice. The goal is to “create more competition and innovation – and reduce Denmark’s dependence on the few”.
- Then we posted the LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #4 – Documentation in Free and Open Source Software. What exactly makes “good” documentation? And why is it important today? Watch to learn more (also available on PeerTube).
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- Throughout the month, we posted various articles about the Open Document format and XML: Technology at the heart of our daily lives; The role of XML in interoperability; An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool; and Understanding ODF file types: .odt, .ods, .odp, and beyond.
- On July 17, we announced LibreOffice 25.2.5. This is the fifth minor update to the 25.2 branch, with bugfixes and compatibility improvements. All users are recommended to upgrade.
- And while that branch is being updated regularly, we’re also preparing for the next major release. LibreOffice 25.8 RC2 is available for testing – thanks in advance to everyone who helps to report issues, so we can make it a rock-solid final version!
- In Documentation news, the Getting Started Guide 25.2 was published after some months of work. Well done to everyone involved!
- And finally, the Call for Proposals for the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025 was opened. The event will take place in Tokyo on 13 and 14 December.
