LibreOffice project and community recap: August 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…

  • Every six months – in February and August – we release a new major update to LibreOffice. And on 20 August, LibreOffice 25.8 arrived with many new features, plus compatibility improvements and performance boosts.

Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.1

Berlin, 29 August 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.1, the first minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available at https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows, MacOS and Linux.

The release includes close to 100 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 25.8 [1] to improve the stability and robustness of the software.…

One week to the LibreOffice Conference in Budapest

The LibreOffice Conference will start in a week from today with the Community Meeting, at the Faculty of Informatics of ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University) in Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C, 1117 Budapest. The building is just in front of the Danube on the historic Buda side, and can be easily reached either by walking or by public transportation from the city center in Pest, where you can find the majority of hotels and restaurants.…

In memory of Juan Carlos Sanz

Juan Carlos Sanz, a long time contributor to OpenOffice and LibreOffice, and a TDF Member, passed away last Friday, August 22. He has been contributing to documentation and localization in Spanish, and has been active in the forums to help LibreOffice users as much as he could.

In July 2022, Juan Carlos was interviewed by Mike Saunders for the Community Member Monday.…

LibreOffice 25.8: The first week, in statistics

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One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 25.8, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too. So, what has happened in the week since then? Let’s check out some stats…

642,564 downloads

These are just stats for our official downloads page, of course – many Linux users will have acquired the new release via their distribution’s package repositories.…

PyPos3DLO: Python 3D App based on LibreOffice

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Today we’re talking to Olivier Dufailly, who’s working on PyPos3DLO, an app based on LibreOffice to create mechanical characters, edit and optimize Poser files, and manipulate WaveFront files:

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I live in Toulouse (France) and for around 30 years I’ve mainly worked in the space and aeronautical domain (from software to system engineering), although I was also a business manager for a few years, and the first CIO of a mid-size engineering company.…