01 Apr 2025
LibreOffice project and community recap: March 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 the month by posting some extra videos from the open source tracks of the LibreOffice Conference 2024 in Luxembourg. Check them out!
- Then we announced that LibreOffice is taking part in the Google Summer of Code 2025. New features will come to the suite thanks to independent developers who will use the summer to learn new things.
- Our LibreOffice 25.2 “New Features” video has subtitle translations in 18 languages, thanks to our worldwide localisation communities.
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- Next, we posted an update on the German state of Schleswig-Holstein moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice.
- In March, we recorded Episode #2 of the LibreOffice podcast – this time looking at design, UI and UX in free and open source software. (Also available on PeerTube).
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- On March 26 we celebrated Document Freedom Day 2025, which raises awareness about the problems of proprietary standards, and encourages people to move to open standards like the Open Document Format.
- In terms of the suite, there were two minor updates to LibreOffice in March – 25.2.2 and 24.8.6. All users are recommended to stay up-to-date.
- Then we posted a translation from our Spanish blog, about how LibreOffice Base and Firebird work really well together.
- And finally, we announced the two proposals for the LibreOffice Conference 2025 – Luxembourg and Budapest. TDF Members are currently voting to decide where the event will be held.
