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LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #6 – Language support

LibreOffice is available in over 120 languages – but we want to do more! Jonathan Clark recently joined the TDF team to improve LibreOffice’s support for RTL (right-to-left) and CTL (complex text layout) scripts. In this episode, he talks to Mike Saunders about his work, and how users can help out. (This episode is also available on PeerTube.)

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Updated Conflict of Interest Policy for TDF’s Board of Directors

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The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the LibreOffice project. It collects donations from users, and employs a small team to support and coordinate the worldwide community that makes the software. In TDF there are various bodies including the Board of Directors, Membership Committee, and the Board of Trustees:

Diagram of structure of TDF bodies

These foundation bodies are guided by a set of policies, and now the Board of Directors has voted on an updated Conflict of Interest Policy. The purpose of the policy is to protect any of The Document Foundation’s interests against the risk that derives from overlapping loyalties of a person. See here for the results of the vote.

Click here for the full updated Conflict of Interest Policy

LibreOffice project and community recap: December 2025

Happy New Year 2026

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last month of last year – click the links to learn more…

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  • Dan Williams joined the LibreOffice team as a developer focusing on user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) issues. He will initially work on some improvements for LibreOffice on macOS, but then look at broader topics affecting users on all platforms.

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  • We had one update to LibreOffice in December: 25.8.4. This is a bug and compatibility fix update, recommended for all users.

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LibreOffice Viewer on Meta Horizon OS

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Czech translation of LibreOffice Draw Guide 25.8

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Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:

The new version of the LibreOffice Draw Guide 25.8 has been translated, and announced on our social media. The team is almost identical, with translations by Petr Kuběj, Zdeněk Crhonek and Radomír Strnad and technical support from Miloš Šrámek. Download it from the website. Thanks to everyone for the hard work, and if anyone would like to join the team, they are welcome to do so.

Excellent work everyone!

Videos from the Open Source Conference 2025 in Luxembourg

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At the recent Open Source Conference 2025 in Luxembourg there were two talks about LibreOffice.

The first was Lessons learned from 13 years at The Document Foundation and LibreOffice, where Florian Effenberger, Executive Director of the foundation, talks about the legal setup of The Document Foundation and how its statutes enshrine values and ideals like openness, transparency and meritocracy.

Then there was Open Innovation and Open Source in Schleswig-Holstein – Practice for Europe, where Sven Thomsen, CIO of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein (which is moving to LibreOffice), outlined the state’s pioneering path toward digital sovereignty through Open Source and Open Innovation. The talk highlighted the risks of dependency on proprietary software—including lack of transparency, inflated costs, and reduced security.

Press Releases

Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.4

Berlin, 18 December 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.4, the fourth minor update to the free office suite developed by volunteers for…

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The Future of Open Standards and the Importance of ODF

Open standards don't make headlines. Instead, they work quietly behind the scenes to define how information is created, shared and…