Berlin, 26 March 2026 – The Document Foundation today announces the simultaneous release of LibreOffice 26.2.2 and LibreOffice 25.8.6. These two maintenance updates are respectively targeted to technology savvy and power users, and to users in production environments. Specific options are available from ecosystem companies for enterprise deployments.
Thanks to the efforts of a large community of volunteer translators, LibreOffice are available in 120 languages, enabling over 5 billion people to use the software in their native language rather than a foreign one. For this and many other reasons, LibreOffice is the best software for digital inclusion and digital sovereignty.
The Document Foundation would like to thank all developers, whether volunteers or employed by ecosystem companies, for their strong commitment to maintaining the quality and health of the codebase. Thanks to their efforts, the LibreOffice technology platform is the only one that enables the development of open source office suites which protect users’ interests in terms of privacy, content ownership and governance.
LibreOffice versions 26.2.2 and 25.8.6 are available to download for Windows, macOS and Linux at www.libreoffice.org/download/, with different versions for Intel, Apple and ARM processors.
LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project by making a donation at www.libreoffice.org/donate/.
The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, welcomes the inclusion of the Open Document Format (ODF) as a mandated standard format in Germany’s Deutschland-Stack, the federal government’s sovereign digital infrastructure framework for all public administrations.
The Stack, published by the German Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung), establishes the technical standards for a shared, interoperable and sovereign digital infrastructure serving all Germany’s public administrations. Under the framework’s “Semantic Technologies and Real-Time Analytics” pillar, ODF and PDF/UA are explicitly named as the two mandated document formats, to the exclusion of proprietary alternatives.
“This is not a recommendation or a preference, it is a mandate,” said Florian Effenberger, Executive Director of The Document Foundation. “Germany’s decision to anchor ODF at the heart of its national sovereign stack confirms what we have argued for years: open, vendor-neutral document formats are not a niche concern for some technology specialists and FOSS advocates. They are a fundamental infrastructure for democratic, interoperable and sovereign public administrations.”
The Deutschland-Stack is grounded in a set of principles that align with TDF’s long-standing advocacy positions. The framework adopts a “Made in EU first” principle, requires open interfaces and local data storage, mandate open source development where proprietary ownership would otherwise apply, and explicitly aims to reduce vendor lock-in effects. The Stack draws on decisions by the Digital Ministers’ Conference (Digitalministerkonferenz), the Federal Cabinet, and the Prime Ministers’ Conference, and targets concrete delivery of infrastructure components for all levels of government by 2028.
ODF’s inclusion in this framework is no accident. It reflects a consistent direction in European digital policy, from the EIF (European Interoperability Framework) to the CRA (Cyber Resilience Act), that recognises open standards as a prerequisite for interoperability, sovereignty and long-term public value.
“The Stack also calls for reducing lock-in effects and for a European cloud infrastructure built on open standards,” added Florian Effenberger. “ODF’s mandate is the document-layer expression of that principle, as you cannot claim digital sovereignty while allowing your documents to be locked in proprietary formats controlled by a single vendor.”
For the last 20 years, the argument used by proprietary software vendors against ODF adoption in public administrations has been based on a wrong claim. In fact, transitioning away from proprietary formats would reduce the risks of content loss, workflow disruption and incompatibility. The Deutschland-Stack’s mandate confirms this fact, and by naming ODF as the standard, implicitly recognises that the long-term risk for digital sovereignty is represented by proprietary lock-in and not by open standards.
This position is consistent with TDF’s submission to the EU Commission, in which TDF argued that ODF adoption does not introduce content-loss risk, and that the burden of proof must rest with those advocating for OOXML Transitional, a format defined by its own specification as provisional.
UPDATE: The official document has been published by the IT-Planungsrat, the central political steering body comprising the federal government and state governments, which promotes and develops common, user-oriented IT solutions for efficient and secure digital administration in Germany: https://www.it-planungsrat.de/beschluss/b-2026-03-it.
Join us in Pordenone, Italy, to share what you are doing for and with LibreOffice, how you are integrating LibreOffice in your infrastructure, how you are using LibreOffice to achieve Digital Sovereignty, and how LibreOffice can be used in Education.
The Document Foundation invites TDF Members, contributors and the wider FOSS community to submit talks, lectures and workshops for this year’s LibreOffice Conference that will be held in Pordenone, Italy.
The event will take place from the 10th to the 12th of September, with an informal community meeting on September 9, and collateral events (in Italian) targeted to Italian enterprises and public administrations on September 9 and September 11.
Proposals should be filed by June 15, 2026 in order to guarantee that they will be considered for inclusion in the conference program. Please provide an abstract of your talk, and a short bio of yourself. These will help organizers in selecting the talks, and putting together the conference schedule.
The conference program will be based on the following tracks:
a) Development (APIs, Extensions, Current and New Features)
b) Quality Assurance and Software Security
c) Localization, Documentation and Native Language Projects
d) Appealing LibreOffice: Ease of Use, Design and Accessibility
e) Open Document Format, Digital Sovereignty and Interoperability
f) Advocating, Promoting, Marketing LibreOffice
g) Enterprise Deployments, Migrations to LibreOffice, integration
h) LibreOffice in education, and Open Education Resources
i) LibreOffice for government organizations, central and local
Pordenone University
Presentations, case studies, and technical talks will discuss a subject in depth, and will last 30 minutes (including Q&A). Lightning talks will cover a specific topic and will last 5 minutes (including Q&A). Workshops will focus on topics which need an open discussion between participants, and will last 60 or 90 minutes.
It is very important to provide an abstract which summarizes your talk, and a short bio of yourself. These will help organizers in selecting the talks, and putting together a meaningful conference schedule which makes sense for the audience.
Sessions will be streamed live and recorded for download.
If you need a VISA, please get in touch with the organization team by sending an email at conference@libreoffice.org as soon as possible, to get an invitation letter.
If you cannot travel to Pordenone and prefer to present remotely, please add a note to your talk proposal, in order to allow organizers to schedule your talk (and organize a test session in advance).
If you do not agree to provide the data for the talk under the “Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License”, please explicitly state your terms. In order to make your presentation available on TDF’s YouTube channel, please do not submit talks containing copyrighted material (music or pictures, etc.).
If you want to give multiple talks, please send a separate proposal for each one. Please do mind that you will receive a separate email for each one.
Pordenone Tech Area
Of course, this is just the LibreOffice Conference Call for Papers, but all community members, FOSS advocates or people just curious about technology are welcome to come along and attend the talks and events!
If you need an accommodation in Pordenone, please get in touch with the organizers in due time by email: conference@libreoffice.org. The local tourism organization will handle requests based on your needs, providing an accommodation with an agreed discounted rate.
Videos describing new features available on YouTube and PeerTube
Berlin, 26 February 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.1, the first maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch. Building on the major feature release published on February 4, 2026, this update delivers targeted bug fixes and stability improvements contributed by a global community of developers, QA engineers, and ecosystem companies.
LibreOffice 26.2.1 is available for immediate download for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
LibreOffice 26.2 introduced a broad set of improvements to daily productivity workflows, including Markdown import and export, connector shapes in Calc, multi-user Base, faster EPUB export, and mandatory Skia rendering on macOS and Windows for better graphics performance. LibreOffice 26.2.1 consolidates these advances with a focused set of fixes, addressing issues identified by users and testers since the initial release.
Videos describing the new features of the LibreOffice 26.2 family area available on PeerTube and YouTube.
A significant share of the fixes in LibreOffice 26.2.1 originates from the companies that form the LibreOffice ecosystem. These organisations employ experienced developers who contribute code upstream, ensuring that improvements benefit the entire LibreOffice user base — whether they run the community build or a vendor-supported distribution.
The Document Foundation thanks all ecosystem partners for their sustained investment in the health and quality of the shared codebase.
LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project with a donation at www.libreoffice.org/donate.
Everyone loves having shiny new features in LibreOffice. But how do we get them? Many are developed by volunteers and people in the ecosystem.
But another great source of new features is the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC Contributors work with open source organisations on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors.
Berlin, 19 February 2026 – LibreOffice 25.8.5, the fifth update to the FOSS office suite [1] developed by volunteers for personal productivity in office environments on Windows, MacOS and Linux, has landed at www.libreoffice.org/download.
LibreOffice 25.8.5 is based on the highly robust LibreOffice technology platform, which supports the development of desktop, mobile, and cloud applications from both TDF and ecosystem companies. The platform supports all available document formats for full interoperability: the native, open and standard ODF (ODT, ODS and ODP) and the proprietary Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX).
Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for all desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS), and the cloud. For enterprise-class deployments, versions are available from ecosystem companies, with SLAs and security patch backports for three to five years.
English manuals for the LibreOffice 25.8 family can be downloaded from books.libreoffice.org/en/. End users can access volunteer based technical support via mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice forum: ask.libreoffice.org/.
All desktop versions of LibreOffice can be downloaded from the same website: www.libreoffice.org/download/. To improve interoperability with Microsoft Office and 365, users should install the Microsoft Aptos font from this webpage: typography/font-list/aptos.
LibreOffice enterprise and individual users can support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project with a donation at www.libreoffice.org/donate.
Berlin, 26 March 2026 – The Document Foundation today announces the simultaneous release of LibreOffice 26.2.2 and LibreOffice 25.8.6. These two maintenance updates are respectively targeted to technology savvy and power users, and to users in production environments. Specific options are available from ecosystem companies for enterprise deployments.
LibreOffice versions 26.2.2 and 25.8.6 are available to download for Windows, macOS and Linux at www.libreoffice.org/download/, with different versions for Intel, Apple and ARM processors.
