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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 had one update in July: LibreOffice 26.2.5, the fifth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch. We also said a big welcome to our new TDF members! Members – more formally known as the “Board of Trustees” – are a crucial part of The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. They are people from across the globe who contribute time, effort and skills, whether on a voluntary or paid basis. Then there was another section from the TDF Annual Report 2025, Policy and Digital Sovereignty. This section looks at Germany’s IT Planning Council committing to ODF, the approval of ODF 1.4, and public migrations to LibreOffice. On a similar topic, we posted how proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in. Back to the software itself: we posted the LibreOffice State of the Project (July 2025 – June 2026), based on data from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, extracted from the LibreOffice dashboard and the Matomo repository. This is full of statistics describing the health of the project and the community.

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,