01 Sep 2025
LibreOffice project and community recap: August 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…
- Every six months – in February and August – we release a new major update to LibreOffice. And on 20 August, LibreOffice 25.8 arrived with many new features, plus compatibility improvements and performance boosts. Check out this video for an overview (also available on PeerTube):
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- One week after the release, we posted some stats. And at the end of the month, the first minor bugfix update was made available: LibreOffice 25.8.1.
- Meanwhile, the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025 will take place in Tokyo in December, and the call for proposals is now open (until 16 September).
- Throughout the month, we posted regular articles about ODF, the Open Document Format: What’s new in ODF 1.3 and 1.4; Best practices for creating and editing ODF files; and Guide to migrating from proprietary formats to ODF.
- At The Document Foundation, we have a new job opening! Join the LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on UI with initial emphasis on macOS, preferably full-time, remote.
- LibreOffice does not include artificial intelligence (AI) out-of-the-box. But many users want AI features in the suite – so we encourage developers to make them available as optional extensions. And that’s what Igor Támara did, creating the “Stable Diffusion for LibreOffice” extension for AI-generated images powered by AI Horde (a volunteer crowd-sourced distributed cluster of image generation workers).
- And here’s another cool thing: PyPos3DLO: a Python 3D app based on LibreOffice to create mechanical characters, edit and optimize Poser files, and manipulate WaveFront files.
- Some sad news: long-time LibreOffice contributor Juan Carlos Sanz passed away. We are very thankful to his work in the project over the years.
- Finally, we posted a reminder that the LibreOffice Conference 2025 is coming up in Budapest, from 4 – 6 September. See you there! 😊
