LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2025

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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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LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 group photo

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  • 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).

Stable Diffusion image generator for LibreOffice

Aeroplane 3D model being viewed in LibreOffice Calc

  • 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.

Juan Carlos Sanz

  • Finally, we posted a reminder that the LibreOffice Conference 2025 is coming up in Budapest, from 4 – 6 September. See you there! 😊

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