Category: Community

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 January with some news about The Document Foundation’s governance: an updated Conflict of Interest Policy for the Board of Directors. Later in the month, the Board also voted on version 1 of TDF Community Bylaws.

• We continued our series of posts about the Open Document Format (ODF): The philosophy behind ODF: openness, freedom and control; The Future of Open Standards and the Importance of ODF; and Why Open Standards are Extremely Beneficial to End Users.

• Then there was the LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #6 – discussing language support with Jonathan Clark from TDF. (The episode is also available on PeerTube.)

• Stats time! Italo Vignoli from the foundation posted a State of the LibreOffice Project, with slides about development, translators, donations and downloads.

• Finally, we prepared for FOSDEM 2026 which took place in Brussels. More about the community’s activities there soon!

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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…

• At the start of December, we announced a new Code of Ethics and Fiduciary Duties for The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors.

• Also early in the month was an announcement of the approval of the Open Document Format (ODF) v1.4 standard by OASIS Open. ODF is the default format used in LibreOffice, and is supported by many other office suites, including Microsoft Office/365.

• 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.

• Next, we announced the locations of the LibreOffice Conferences 2026 and 2027. The former will take place in Pordenone, Italy, and the latter in Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Then we posted LibreOffice-related videos from the Open Source Conference 2025 in Luxembourg.

• Great work from the Czech LibreOffice community, announcing their translation of the Draw Guide 25.8.

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

• As part of our ongoing in-depth series about the Open Document Format (ODF), we looked at the role of ODF in the era of digital identity and authentication and the importance of ODF during the festive season.

• Finally, we announced that LibreOffice Viewer is now available on Meta Quest VR headsets.

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As November started, we kicked off a new Month of LibreOffice campaign, celebrating community contributions all across the project. We do these every six months – so how many people got sticker packs this time? Check it out…

Excellent work! Hundreds of people, all across the globe, have helped out in our projects. And those are just community contributions, not including the hundreds more from our ecosystem and certified developers!

We’re hugely thankful for the work – and, of course, everyone who contributed in November and is listed on the wiki page can get a sticker pack, with the stickers shown above.

How to claim

If you see your name (or username) on this page, get in touch! Email mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org with:

…and we’ll send you a bunch of stickers for your PC, laptop and other kit. (Note: your address will only be used to post the stickers, and will be deleted immediately afterwards.) If you contributed to the LibreOffice project in November but you’re not on the wiki page, please let us know what you did, so that we can add you!

There is one more thing…

And we have an extra bonus: ten contributors have also been selected at random to get an extra piece of merchandise – a LibreOffice hoodie, T-shirt, rucksack or snazzy glass mug. Here are the winners (names or usernames) – we’ll get in touch personally with the details:

• Sarah Lim
• lodf2023
• @TerryBTwo@ohai.social
• jcline
• Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin
• CRDF
• Xəyyam Qocayev
• @fluidlogic@oldbytes.space
• Zayed
• rram

Congratulations to all the winners, and a big thanks once again to everyone who took part – your contributions keep the LibreOffice project strong. We plan to have another Month of LibreOffice in May 2026, but everyone is welcome to see what they can do for LibreOffice at any time!