We are releasing the quarterly updated State of the Project Slide Deck, based on data from July 1st, 2025, to June 30, 2026, extracted from the LibreOffice dashboard and the Matomo repository.
During the 12 months 309 developers worked on the source code, adding 11.464 new commits (Git): 238 volunteer developers (77%) provided 2.028 commits (18%); 11 developers from The Document Foundation (4%) provided 4.501 commits (39%), and 60 developers from 8 ecosystem companies (19%) provided 4.935 commits (47%).
The slide deck is also a tribute to the 20 top Git committers, the 20 top Gerrit committers, the top 20 Bugzilla issue submitters, the top 20 people answering on Discourse, and the top 20 translator on Weblate. To all of them and to all the other contributors, thank you.
Looking at donations and downloads, the trend during the first six months of 2026 confirms the positive trend started in early 2025. Donation figures refer to the number of transactions and not to their amount, which is available via the ledgers published on The Document Foundation website.
You are invited to look at the slides, and download the file to compare it with the previous slide deck published in January and April. The next slide deck which will be available in October and will cover the 12 months between October 1st, 2025, and September 30, 2026.
We have started to publish these slide decks in January 2026, to provide a transparent overview about the progress of the project through some of the most significant measures of development, downloads and donations data collected by the marketing team at TDF.
Our marketing and design communities worked on a new video: Join the LibreOffice Community! (This video is also available on PeerTube.)
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This is part of the Annual Report 2025 from The Document Foundation, the non-profit that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community. More will be posted soon…
LibreOffice Conference
The LibreOffice Conference was the annual get-together of the worldwide LibreOffice community, bringing together developers, contributors, and users. The 2025 event was held in Budapest, Hungary, from September 3 to 5, and was preceded by a community session.
The main conference featured 53 sessions spread over three days. It kicked off with a welcome and housekeeping session, followed by an opening speech from Eliane Domingos from TDF’s Board of Directors, and a welcome speech from the university that hosted the event.
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After that, the talks began across several different tracks, including the Open Document Format, advocacy and marketing, development and extensions, UX and design, and more. The full list of talks can be found on https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2025/schedule/. There was also a notable talk from the Austrian military (Bundesheer) about their migration to LibreOffice and the new features they funded.
The event finished on Friday with a lightning talks session, followed by the closing address and a celebration for the 15th anniversary of LibreOffice. But the conference was more than just talks: there was a community dinner as well.
Now the community is looking forward to 2026’s LibreOffice Conference. The event will take place in Pordenone, northern Italy, from September 10 to 12, and the Call for Papers is currently open.
In addition to the main LibreOffice Conference, there was the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, which took place in Tokyo, Japan, from December 13 – 14. Speakers and guests from around the world discussed topics specific to Asian communities, such as complex text layout (CTL) and CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) language support, and marketing LibreOffice in specific countries.
There was also the sixth edition of the Latin American LibreOffice Congress, held in Habana, Cuba, from October 6 to 9. LibreOffice project activities was concentrated on the opening day, October 6, and in the special session “LibreOffice Congress and Technological Sovereignty”, on the 8th. With the remaining days available, the organisers articulated a parallel agenda of activities, with visits and strategic meetings with managers and professionals from governmental and community areas.
TDF at External Events
Throughout 2025, members of The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice community attended many other events around the world. The first big event was FOSDEM, held in Brussels in early February – the biggest meetup of free and open source software developers in Europe. As usual, the LibreOffice community was present with a stand, merchandise, stickers, flyers, clothing and more. Attendees came by to talk about the project, report issues and make suggestions.
In late April, the Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2025 event took place in southern Germany, and LibreOffice was present with a stand and merchandise. Another German event was the Univention Summit 2025: it took place on January 23 and 24 in Bremen, and the LibreOffice project was present and met with the people overseeing the migration to LibreOffice in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Italian community members attended the Linux Arena event from April 25 – 27 in Pordenone. They had a LibreOffice stand with a 32″ monitor, showing an Impress presentation about LibreOffice on a loop. At the stand they met different interested people – some of whom they already know since they visit the fair regularly, while others they saw for the first time. There was curiosity about LibreOffice, and this time the stand personal noticed an increasing demand about AI integration and related plugins. The LibreOffice coffee/beer mats were very much appreciated by visitors to the stand.
Later in the year, Community members in Nepal tuned in to an online call and turned Software Freedom Day 2025 into a success. Birendra Open Source Club – one of the student clubs and LibreOffice project contributors in Nepal, with support from Liaison Suraj Bhattarai and other key open source clubs, hopped onto Discord on 20 September.
On October 4 and 5, the LinuxDays 2025 event took place at the Faculty of Information Technology (Czech Technical University) in Prague. It combined stands for free and open source software projects with workshops and talks, and the Czech-speaking LibreOffice community was there.
Members of the Indian LibreOffice community celebrated Document Freedom Day in Noida on 29 March. The event featured a few talks on free software such as OpenStreetMap, Prav and KDE, and also a lawyer told attendees how they manage all their clients’ data with free software and keeping their privacy in mind. LibreOffice merchandise was distributed at the sticker table.
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest Getting Started Guide, updated for LibreOffice 26.2!
The Documentation Team is proud to present this new edition, designed to help users with an introductory guide of LibreOffice, covering all aspects of the best open source free office suite, from word processing to databases as well as settings and configuration common to all modules.
This guide is part of our growing collection of documentation — lovingly written, edited, and reviewed by a global team of dedicated volunteers who are passionate about open-source software and digital freedom.
👏 The 26.2 update was coordinated by Dione Maddern, with valuable contributions from Peter Schofield and Olivier Hallot. A huge thanks to everyone involved!
LibreOffice is the free, private, open source office suite – and successor to OpenOffice. It’s made by a worldwide community, and you can be part of it! 😊 Boost your skillset, learn new people, and have fun – find out what you can do for LibreOffice.
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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.
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! 😊
We are releasing the quarterly updated State of the Project Slide Deck, based on data from July 1st, 2025, to June 30, 2026, extracted from the LibreOffice dashboard and the Matomo repository.
