LibreOffice Archive

LibreOffice and Google Summer of Code 2025: The results

Google Summer of Code logo

This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more developers into free and open source software development. Seven projects were finished successfully. Contributors and mentors enjoyed the time, and here we

Coming up: LibreOffice event in Nepal

Look! Our Nepalese community is preparing a very cool LibreOffice event for early December. More details to come – stay tuned to this blog 😉

Picture of community members at LibreOffice event in Nepal, and the sentence: Dots that are connecting free communities

End of 10. Ten reasons to switch from Windows to Linux on your desktop

Today, Microsoft is ending official support for Windows 10. This leaves users who want to continue using the operating system with few alternatives — especially if they have an old PC that is not compatible

The artificial complexity of OOXML files (the PPTX case)

This is the third and final post on the topic of the artificial complexity of the OOXML format. This complexity is the result of careful design aimed at preventing interoperability. Developers have to deal

Release of LibreOffice 25.8.2

Berlin, 9 October 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.2, the second minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available on our download page for Windows, macOS and Linux.

This release includes

LibreOffice 64-bit progress, and support for Amazon Linux 2023

CPU on a motherboard

LibreOffice has been available for Linux since we started the project in 2010. The official builds from The Document Foundation (the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice) are designed to be self-contained and distribution agnostic – that is, they should work on as many distributions as possible.

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