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 had one update in July: LibreOffice 26.2.5, the fifth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch.
- We also said a big welcome to our new TDF members! Members – more formally known as the “Board of Trustees” – are a crucial part of The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. They are people from across the globe who contribute time, effort and skills, whether on a voluntary or paid basis.
- Then there was another section from the TDF Annual Report 2025, Policy and Digital Sovereignty. This section looks at Germany’s IT Planning Council committing to ODF, the approval of ODF 1.4, and public migrations to LibreOffice.
- On a similar topic, we posted how proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in.
- Back to the software itself: we posted the LibreOffice State of the Project (July 2025 – June 2026), based on data from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, extracted from the LibreOffice dashboard and the Matomo repository. This is full of statistics describing the health of the project and the community.
- An additional section from TDF’s Annual Report 2025 was the foundation’s financials and budget.
- Meanwhile, the small team at TDF is expanding, with a job offer for a new Marketing and Communication Professional. Applications are open until the end of August.
- Finally, we wrapped up the month discussing Microsoft’s end-of-life of Office 2021, and how LibreOffice stays yours for a lifetime. And on a similar topic, we looked at why OOXML-based suites handle ODF badly.
