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LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2025

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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 the month with Episode 3 of the LibreOffice Podcast – this time looking at Quality Assurance (QA) in Free

📣 The New LibreOffice 25.2 User Guides Are Here!

The LibreOffice community has great news: the Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Math User Guides are now available for version 25.2! 🎉

Yes, you read that right! With every new LibreOffice release, our Documentation Team works hard to keep up — and this time, we’ve shortened

Registration open for the LibreOffice Conference 2025

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Registration is now open for the LibreOffice Conference 2025! Join us from 4 – 6 September in Budapest 😊 We’ll have technical talks, workshops, social events and more…

Click here to learn more, and register

New LibreOffice merchandise is here!

T-shirts, hoodies, bags with LibreOffice icons

Get cool LibreOffice merchandise – and support our projects and community! We’ve updated our Spreadshirt shop with new designs, and part of the sales go to The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind the suite.

Click here to visit the shop

Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice…

Stefan Soyka, StarOffice developer in the early '90s

LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice(.org), which in turn was based on StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed in the 1990s. Learn more about the history here! And let’s hear from Stefan Soyka, who worked on StarOffice from 1990 –

LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone, Italy

LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone

Marco Marega writes:

Hi, I’m Marco, an Italian translator and Member of The Document Foundation. Twice a year I take part in an event in Pordenone to promote LibreOffice within the stand “Linux Arena” of the PNLUG Linux User Group. It’s inside a