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LibreOffice project and community recap: July 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 July with some very positive news: a Danish Ministry is switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice. The goal is to “create more competition and innovation – and reduce Denmark’s dependence on the few”. Then we posted the LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #4 – Documentation in Free and Open Source Software. What exactly makes “good” documentation? And why is it important today? Watch to learn more (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 Throughout the month, we posted various articles about the Open Document format and XML: Technology at the heart of our daily lives; The role of XML in interoperability; An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool; and Understanding ODF file types: .odt, .ods, .odp, and beyond. On July 17, we announced LibreOffice 25.2.5. This is the fifth minor

LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, Tokyo – Call for proposals is open

Photo from the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 This is a translation of the Japanese post: The LibreOffice Asia Conference Committee is pleased to invite proposals for talks at the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan, on December 13 (Saturday) and 14 (Sunday), at IIJ Head Office (Iidabashi Grand Bloom). This conference brings together LibreOffice users and contributors across Asia — including developers, translators, QA testers, community organizers, and marketing professionals — to share knowledge, tools, experiences, and challenges. We will welcome international guests, including team members from The Document Foundation, and encourage cross-border exchange and collaboration. The conference will be held as a single-track event over two days, with most sessions in English. However, talks in Japanese are also welcome. If you plan to give your talk in Japanese, please prepare your slides in English so that non-Japanese-speaking attendees can follow along. We may also organize separate workshops or additional sessions. Please make sure to check the following for details such as the event schedule. (The information will be updated as needed.) wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2025/LibreOffice_Asia_Conference Here are some examples of topics (but not limited to): Case studies of LibreOffice adoption or ODF migration efforts Technical insights into

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 25.2.5

LibreOffice 24.8 has now reached the end of life, so all users have to update their free office suite to the latest release Berlin, 17 July 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.5, the fifth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux OSs, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. LibreOffice 24.8 has reached the end of life, which means that this release – which includes dozen of fixes and enhancements that further improve reliability, performance and interoperability – is suggested for production environments, and all users should update their installation as soon as possible. LibreOffice 25.2.5 is based on the LibreOffice Technology, which enables the development of desktop, mobile and cloud versions – either from TDF or from the ecosystem – that fully support the two ISO standards for document formats: the open ODF or Open Document Format (ODT, ODS and ODP) and the closed and proprietary Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX). Products based on the LibreOffice Technology are available for all major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud. For enterprise-class deployments,

XML: a technology at the heart of our daily lives

In my last article, I mentioned XML several times, perhaps assuming that all users had a basic understanding of it. Rereading it, I realised that an introduction to XML was needed for non-technical users, those who use XML every day without realising it, when they open a document, check the weather, place or receive an order online, or issue a digital invoice. XML works silently behind the scenes. But what exactly is XML and why should it matter to non-techies? I will try to explain it in simple terms. XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language, a way of organising information in a format that is easy for both people and computers to understand, helping different applications communicate and exchange data using a common language. Put simply, XML is a digital container that clearly labels information. For example, this is a shopping list in XML format: <groceryList>   <item>     <name>Bread</name>     <quantity>1 loaf</quantity>   </item>   <item>     <name>Milk</name>     <quantity>2 litres</quantity>   </item> </groceryList> Labelling helps computers and software understand exactly what each piece of information means. In a hyperconnected world like ours, where apps and systems share data, XML allows that data to move

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

The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it’s time to consider Linux and LibreOffice

The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10. This will leave millions of users and organisations with a difficult choice: should they upgrade to Windows 11, or completely rethink their work environment? The good news? You don’t have to follow Microsoft’s upgrade path. There is a better option that puts control back in the hands of users, institutions, and public bodies: Linux and LibreOffice. Together, these two programmes offer a powerful, privacy-friendly and future-proof alternative to the Windows + Microsoft 365 ecosystem. The real costs of switching to Windows 11 The move to Windows 11 isn’t just about security updates. It increases dependence on Microsoft through aggressive cloud integration, forcing users to adopt Microsoft accounts and services. It also leads to higher costs due to subscription and licensing models, and reduces control over how your computer works and how your data is managed. Furthermore, new hardware requirements will render millions of perfectly good PCs obsolete. This is a turning point. It is not just a milestone in a product’s life cycle. It is a crossroads. The new path: Linux + LibreOffice These

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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 25.8.7

Berlin, 12 May 2026 - The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.7, the final maintenance release of the…

Open Document Format

There is no digital sovereignty without ODF

Any other choice is a choice of dependence on a single vendor Digital sovereignty begins with the document format. Everything…