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There’s another HackFest!

Shortly after our successful LibreOffice Hackfest in the city of Munich last weekend (pictures and blog post will follow), there will be another event for hackers and developers! Cor Nouws is organizing a Mini HackFest in Eindhoven on September 10th. If you’re around, have a look, and learn how the LibreOffice development process works.

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Join the LibreOffice Hackfest!

Dear Community, next weekend, from September 2nd to 4th, the first LibreOffice Hackfest will take place in the city of Munich, Germany. The Hackfest is the gathering of LibreOffice developers from all around the world, where experienced coders and interested developers meet and work on the code, fix bugs and implement new features. Plus, it is a great chance to see many faces from the community in the wonderful setting of Bavaria’s capital city. Participation is free of charge, and the best is, we still have free seats available! If you want to contribute code to LibreOffice, or get in touch with members of our community, the LibreOffice Hackfest is the place to be! And for those not so experienced in developing, we will host a special session on hacking pasta. 😉 More details on the planned agenda and on the venues are available in our wiki at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest2011 Looking forward to hacking with you in Munich! Florian on behalf of the Hackfest organizers

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LibreOffice Hackfest in Munich

Together with their Linux migration team (LiMux), we’re planning a LibreOffice Hackfest in the City of Munich, Germany. To determine the best date for it, let us know all your possible dates! Like last time, the Hackfest is open for newbies as well as for routined hackers. More details will follow soon, but first, we need the date. So, let’s vote! The poll is at http://doodle.com/i7pw9wubvdhdyzm4 NOTE: The Hackfest will run from Friday evening to Sunday lunchtime. For the ease of voting, we have just mentioned the respective Saturday.

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LibreOffice Native Language Projects – TDF Annual Report 2025

LibreOffice is available in over 120 languages, thanks to the work of localisation communities around the world. We asked them to summarise their work in 2025 – here’s what they had to say… Czech The Czech community maintained an active presence both online and in-person. Their localisation efforts remained strong, keeping the UI fully translated and the Help files at 95% completion. The team also stayed connected with their user base through the Czech Ask LibreOffice site along, with social media presence across X, Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon. There was also outreach at events. The team hosted dedicated LibreOffice booths at InstallFest in April and LinuxDays in October, both held in Prague. Documentation also saw significant updates, with the publication of the Getting Started Guide (24.8), the Calc Guide (25.2), and the Draw Guide (25.8). Danish The Danish community focused on multimedia education and consistent localisation in 2025. There was the launch of the @libreofficeskolen (“LibreOffice School”) YouTube channel. This initiative provides the Danish-speaking public with a series of instructional videos designed to lower the barrier to entry for new users. Alongside this output, the community kept the UI and Help files fully translated at 100%, and ensured that LibreOffice

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Q&A about Media Articles and Forum Comments

Over the past week, a number of articles have appeared in the media and comments have been posted on forums containing questions – some explicitly stated and others implied – directed at The Document Foundation. We have done our best to gather all these questions and provide a response that clarifies The Document Foundation’s position regarding the claims made in a couple of online posts and the resulting inferences drawn by readers who are only partially informed of the facts. Some of the questions may sound weird such as the one about all developers having left the project, which is not true but is a clear consequence of the intentionally biased framing provided by some people to damage The Document Foundation and LibreOffice. With this Q&A document, we aim to provide clarity, although much of this information has already been provided in the past on this very blog, and all the data cited is available on The Document Foundation’s website (specifically, organisation, governance, ledger and annual report), on TDF dashboard (data relating to development and related activities) and on TDF Matomo site (data relating to downloads). TDF Website: www.documentfoundation.org/ TDF Dashboard: dashboard.documentfoundation.org/ TDF Matomo Instance: matomo.documentfoundation.org/ TDF Annual Reports: https://www.documentfoundation.org/financials-and-reports/

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LibreOffice turns 15: a celebration of freedom, collaboration and open technologies and standards

Fifteen years ago, we announced our ambitious plan to provide the world with a fully free and open office suite created by and for the community. Today, we are celebrating 15 years of LibreOffice — a milestone not only for the software itself, but also for the global movement that it represents. LibreOffice was born on 28 September 2010 when it was launched as a fork of OpenOffice. This was not just a technical split, but also a declaration of independence, transparency, and freedom. LibreOffice would be free: free to use, free to modify, and free from corporate constraints. From day one, our mission has been clear: to empower people through open technology. A community like no other LibreOffice has never been alone. Throughout its journey, it has been supported by a community of thousands of contributors and dozens of companies who have contributed to development, design, localisation, quality assurance and other services to support its growth. Many have simply dedicated their time, skills and passion to creating something unique and better for everyone. Over the years, the community has: Released dozens of major versions, each more powerful and significantly better than the last; Localised LibreOffice into over 120 languages,

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Press Releases

LibreOffice 26.8.1 improves compatibility and text import

Berlin, 2 October 2026 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 26.8.1, the first minor release in the LibreOffice 26.8 family,…

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LibreOffice 26.8 and interoperability: preserving what cannot yet be read

LibreOffice 26.8 adds basic support for importing and exporting a range of chart types that Microsoft Office includes in OOXML…