Yes, the conference in Budapest has started. If you’re not there in-person, join one of the chat channels linked to on the site and you can watch talks remotely. Enjoy!| The Document Foundation 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… Every six months – in February and August – we release a new major update to LibreOffice. And on 20 August, LibreOffice 25.8 arrived with many new features, plus compatibility improvements […]| The Document Foundation Blog
Berlin, 29 August 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.1, the first minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available at https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows, MacOS and Linux. The release includes close to 100 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 25.8 [1] to improve the stability and robustness of the […]| The Document Foundation Blog
The LibreOffice Conference will start in a week from today with the Community Meeting, at the Faculty of Informatics of ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University) in Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C, 1117 Budapest. The building is just in front of the Danube on the historic Buda side, and can be easily reached either by walking or by […]| The Document Foundation Blog
Juan Carlos Sanz, a long time contributor to OpenOffice and LibreOffice, and a TDF Member, passed away last Friday, August 22. He has been contributing to documentation and localization in Spanish, and has been active in the forums to help LibreOffice users as much as he could. In July 2022, Juan Carlos was interviewed by […]| The Document Foundation Blog
One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 25.8, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too. So, what has happened in the week since then? Let’s check out some stats… 642,564 downloads These are just stats for our official downloads page, of course – many […]| The Document Foundation Blog
Today we’re talking to Olivier Dufailly, who’s working on PyPos3DLO, an app based on LibreOffice to create mechanical characters, edit and optimize Poser files, and manipulate WaveFront files: Tell us a bit about yourself! I live in Toulouse (France) and for around 30 years I’ve mainly worked in the space and aeronautical domain (from software […]| The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice 25.8: a Strategic Asset for Governments and Enterprises Focused on Digital Sovereignty and Privacy Overview In a time when geopolitical tensions, data localization laws, and compliance risks are reshaping the IT landscape, LibreOffice 25.8 (released last week) stands out as a strategic choice. It’s a fully open source, locally run productivity suite designed for […]| The Document Foundation Blog
Get a quick overview of some of the new features in LibreOffice 25.8, released on Wednesday. (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 […]| The Document Foundation Blog
15 Aug 2025| The Document Foundation Blog
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8. This latest version of the market-leading free open source office suite maintains its focus on digital sovereignty and privacy protection. It offers individuals, […]| The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released next week, on August 20, 2025 (check the Release Plan). LibreOffice 25.8 RC3 brings us closer to the final version, which will be preceded by a last minute LibreOffice 25.8 RC4 needed for a fix solving an easy to trigger crash. Check the release notes to find the new features […]| The Document Foundation 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 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 […]| The Document Foundation Blog
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 […]| The Document Foundation Blog
If you’ve ever wondered what those .odt, .ods, or .odp files are all about – or if you’ve stumbled across them and weren’t sure what to do – this post is for you. .odt: The Open Document Text File Think of .odt as the open counterpart to .docx. It’s the default file format for LibreOffice […]| The Document Foundation Blog
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 […]| The Document Foundation Blog
To write this article, I went beyond the limits of my technical knowledge, which is that of an advanced user who has studied standard formats and their characteristics in depth, to understand why standard formats – one of the pillars of digital sovereignty – and proprietary formats – their opposite, and one of the biggest […]| The Document Foundation Blog
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A document format is a tool for sharing knowledge and, as such, should be as simple and accessible as possible in relation to the complexity of the document content itself. This remains true even when the format is based on an XML schema that is hidden from users when the document is displayed on screen. […]| The Document Foundation Blog
The new major release provides a wealth of new features, plus a large number of interoperability improvements Berlin, 22 August 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8, the new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux is available from our download page. This is the […]| The Document Foundation Blog
