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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 by announcing LibreOffice 26.2.4, the fourth bugfix update to the current stable branch of the suite. Throughout the month, we continued our blog post series looking at Open Document Format (ODF), Microsoft’s OOXML, and vendor lock-in: A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty; Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF; and The invisible architecture of lock-in – the layering of dependencies. Our marketing and design communities worked on a new video: Join the LibreOffice Community! (This video is also available on PeerTube.) Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video. By accepting, you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Then we posted sections from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2025: LibreOffice releases, features, QA and accessibility; LibreOffice Marketing Activities; LibreOffice Downloads and Donations in 2025; and LibreOffice Conference and External Events. Finally, the the documentation community announced the

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. We reported back from the Augsburger Linux-Infotag, an event is all about Linux and free and open source software (FOSS) in south Germany, where the LibreOffice community was present. Throughout May, we continued our regular article series about the Open Document Format (ODF): Thank you, on behalf of ODF, Twenty Years On, ODF Is Still the Only Open Standard for Office Documents, and the Only One Governments Can Trust, and ODF vs OOXML, an issue that should never have existed. Then we announced projects selected for LibreOffice in the Google Summer of Code 2026, including: OpenType MATH; Improve word processor test coverage; and JPEG XL import support. 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

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… At the start of the month, the LibreOffice Conference 2025 took place in Budapest, Hungary. We had talks, workshops, fun social events and more. Thanks to all who attended 😊 See the schedule for information about the talks (and links to the slides, where available). Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video. By accepting, you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Also towards the start of September, we announced LibreOffice 25.2.6, the sixth minor update to the previous branch of the suite. LibreOffice’s documentation is available in many languages thanks to our worldwide community of translators. The Czech team announced their translation of the Calc Guide 25.2 – excellent work! The Annual Report of The Document Foundation describes the foundation’s activities and projects, especially in regard to LibreOffice and the Document Liberation Project. We’ve been posting sections of the 2024 report here on the blog,

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 and Open Source Software. Watch it below – or on PeerTube. Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video. By accepting, you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Then we announced the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025, providing information on how to get sticker packs. We’ve been sending out stickers and merchandise in the last few weeks, with a bit more to come! On June 6, we announced LibreOffice 25.2.4, the fourth minor update to our latest stable branch. All users are recommended to upgrade. Next, we posted another section from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report, “LibreOffice for End User Privacy”. The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it’s time to consider Linux and LibreOffice! That’s the message behind the “End

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 with a new Month of LibreOffice campaign! This is something we do every six months, to say thank you to contributors and encourage more people to join our project. We’ll post the final results here very soon… Throughout the month, we posted many sections from the 2024 Annual Report of The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, including documentation, quality assurance, native language projects, marketing activities and websites, blogs and social media. Next, we reported back from the LibreOffice Community at FLISOL Brasilia 2025. This year’s LibreOffice Conference will take place in Budapest from 4 – 6 September, and the call for papers is now open. Submit a talk, and we hope to seeing you there! On May 8, we announced LibreOffice 24.8.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family. After this, all users are strongly recommended to upgrade to the LibreOffice 25.2 branch. On Fridays during May, we posted about ODF – the Open Document Format, as used by LibreOffice and many other apps. We started with