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 May by announcing the new LibreOffice website. Our previous website was looking rather old and becoming difficult to maintain, so the team at TDF – with help of the wider LibreOffice community – has been working on a redesign, based on newer technology.
- We reported back from the Augsburger Linux-Infotag, an event is all about Linux and free and open source software (FOSS) in south Germany, where the LibreOffice community was present.
- Throughout May, we continued our regular article series about the Open Document Format (ODF): Thank you, on behalf of ODF, Twenty Years On, ODF Is Still the Only Open Standard for Office Documents, and the Only One Governments Can Trust, and ODF vs OOXML, an issue that should never have existed.
- Then we announced projects selected for LibreOffice in the Google Summer of Code 2026, including: OpenType MATH; Improve word processor test coverage; and JPEG XL import support.
- In the middle of the month, we announced LibreOffice 25.8.7, the final maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.8 family. From here we will focus on maintaining the 26.2 branch, and are preparing for 26.8, our next major release (due in August).
- The vast majority of income to The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind the LibreOffice project and community, is from donations from end users. We made a new video explaining how donations are used to support the community that makes the software.
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- Next, we started posting sections from TDF’s Annual Report 2025, starting with Native Language Projects. A huge thanks to the hundreds of people who make LibreOffice available is so many languages around the world! 😊
- Then we announced our New Web and Mobile Strategy for LibreOffice. LibreOffice is a desktop application, and we will continue making it. But we have constant requests for web and mobile versions, so we’re looking into what we can do. We already have a more detailed proposal from the TDF team.
