LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2025

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

LibreOffice project and community recap: May 2025

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

LibreOffice project and community recap: April 2025

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 by posting a video from Document Freedom Day celebrations with the Nepalese LibreOffice community. Here it is: 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 that the LibreOffice Conference 2025 will take place in Budapest on September 1 – 5. We hope you can join us, in-person or taking part remotely! (Photo credit: JStolp on Pixabay) In the middle of the month, our Czech community reported back with insights from the Prague InstallFest 2025 Conference. We continued to post sections from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report 2024: foundation activities, LibreOffice in 2024 and the LibreOffice Conference. Later in April we were present at the Augsburger Linux-InfoDay 2025. And finally, we reported on the German government’s IT Planning Council committing to open standards (including ODF) by 2027. Keep in touch –

LibreOffice project and community recap: July 2024

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… On the 11th, we announced LibreOffice 24.2.5, the fifth minor update to the latest major release. This includes 70 bug and compatibility fixes, and all users are recommended to update. (The previous branch, LibreOffice 7.6, is no longer maintained.) Throughout the month, we posted several sections from TDF’s Annual Report covering 2023: Documentation, Websites and Blogs, Design and Native Language Projects. Meanwhile, LibreOffice’s Design community produced mockups for a potential peer-to-peer collaboration feature. And finally, the QA team announced LibreOffice 24.8 RC1 – the first Release Candidate for what will become the final version in late August. Please help us to test it! Keep in touch – follow us on Mastodon, X (formerly Twitter), Bluesky, Reddit and Facebook. Like what we do? Support our community with a donation – or join our community and help to make LibreOffice even better!

LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2024

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 June by talking to Isabelle Dutailly about her work on LibreOffice templates. Then we announced LibreOffice 24.2.4, the fourth minor update to the 24.2 line with over 70 bug and compatibility fixes. If you contributed to the LibreOffice project in May, you can claim some merchandise! We announced the winners from the “Month of LibreOffice” campaign, and are posting out the sticker packs and bonus merch 😊 Throughout the month, we posted sections from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report 2023: LibreOffice activities, our conference in Bucharest, marketing activities, social media and LibreOffice development. Finally, our documentation community announced the LibreOffice Impress Guide 24.2, covering the latest version of the suite. Keep in touch – follow us on Mastodon, X (formerly Twitter), Bluesky, Reddit and Facebook. Like what we do? Support our community with a donation – or join our community and help to make LibreOffice even better!

LibreOffice project and community recap: May 2024

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 a new Month of LibreOffice campaign! We run these every six months, encouraging LibreOffice users to become contributors, and join our community. And just one day later, we announced LibreOffice 24.2.3, the third bugfix revision to the most recent stable branch of the software. But we’re also maintaining the older LibreOffice 7.6 branch for a while longer, and on 10 May we released LibreOffice 7.6.7. Next up was another announcement: Projects selected for LibreOffice in the Google Summer of Code 2024. Join us for this year’s LibreOffice Conference 2024! It will take place in Luxembourg from 10 – 12 October. But a bit closer is a LibreOffice Hackfest in Budapest, which will take place on June 4 and 5. And finally, in May we started posting sections from TDF’s Annual Report 2023. Find out what the foundation did last year – and there are many more sections still to come… Keep in touch – follow us on Mastodon, X (formerly Twitter), Bluesky, Reddit and Facebook. Like what we do? Support our