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LibreOffice at LinuxDays 2025 in Prague
On October 4 and 5, the LinuxDays 2025 event took place at the Faculty of Information Technology (Czech Technical University). It combined stands for free and open source software projects with workshops and talks, and the LibreOffice community was there, represented by Zdeněk Crhonek, Petr Valach, Stanislav Horáček and Mike Saunders. At the stand, we […]
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October 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Join the LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on scripting support, preferably full-time, remote (m/f/d)
Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new companies and people with fresh ideas into our community. To improve the scripting support of LibreOffice, the office productivity […]
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October 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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LibreItalia Conference 2025 in Gradisca d’Isonzo
Libreitalia Conference 2025 was organized by Marco Marega – a LibreItalia and TDF Member – in Gradisca d’Isonzo, near the border with Slovenia, in Gorizia’s province. Gradisca is a very nice fortified city surrounded be beautiful parks. The conference venue was the historical Monte di Pietà palace, that the municipality administration kindly allowed to use. […]
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October 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Make your ODF files accessible: a simple guide for everyone
People without disabilities have no problem viewing documents on a computer screen, but there are people with visual impairments or who are blind who use screen readers and keyboard navigation. ODF files have everything they need to be accessible to these people too, and this is a short guide to creating documents that they can […]
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October 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Outcome and conclusions of the VI Latin American LibreOffice Congress
Gustavo Pacheco send us this report on the activities of the sixth edition of the Latin American LibreOffice Congress, held in Habana, Cuba, from October 6 to 9, 2025: Official photo Cibersociedad 2025 + Latin American LibreOffice Congress With a completely different organizational model than in previous years, our conference was held as a prominent […]
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October 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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LibreOffice and Google Summer of Code 2025: The results
This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more developers into free and open source software development. Seven projects were finished successfully. Contributors and mentors enjoyed the time, and here we present some of the achievements, which should make their way […]
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October 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Coming up: LibreOffice event in Nepal
Look! Our Nepalese community is preparing a very cool LibreOffice event for early December. More details to come – stay tuned to this blog 😉
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October 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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End of 10. Ten reasons to switch from Windows to Linux on your desktop
Today, Microsoft is ending official support for Windows 10. This leaves users who want to continue using the operating system with few alternatives — especially if they have an old PC that is not compatible with Windows 11’s demanding hardware requirements — other than buying a new PC. If you’re tired of struggling with your […]
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October 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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The artificial complexity of OOXML files (the PPTX case)
This is the third and final post on the topic of the artificial complexity of the OOXML format. This complexity is the result of careful design aimed at preventing interoperability. Developers have to deal with a veritable “maze” of tags, even for the simplest content. This binds users to the Microsoft ecosystem, providing the first […]
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October 24, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Release of LibreOffice 25.8.2
Berlin, 9 October 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.2, the second minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available on our download page for Windows, macOS and Linux. This release includes over 60 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 25.8 [1] to enhance the software’s stability and robustness. […]
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October 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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LibreOffice 64-bit progress, and support for Amazon Linux 2023
LibreOffice has been available for Linux since we started the project in 2010. The official builds from The Document Foundation (the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice) are designed to be self-contained and distribution agnostic – that is, they should work on as many distributions as possible. To achieve this, we test on various Linux distributions, and […]
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October 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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LibreOffice project and community recap: September 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… 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 […]
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October 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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🇨🇺 LibreOffice in Latin America: heading to Havana for the 2025 Latin American Congress
From October 6 to 9, Havana, Cuba, will host the Latin American LibreOffice 2025 Conference, a meeting that will bring together contributors, developers, universities, and governments from the region to celebrate and strengthen free software. This year, the Latin American conference will be held as part of the IV International Congress on Digital Transformation (Cibersociedad […]
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October 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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The artificial complexity of OOXML files (the DOCX case)
The complexity of the OOXML format is linked to its design and was deliberately created to make the format more difficult for non-Microsoft software developers to implement. Compatibility issues are caused by a veritable “maze” of tags used even for the simplest content, which binds users to the Microsoft ecosystem in the first example of […]
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October 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #5 – Accessibility in Free and Open Source Software
LibreOffice strives to be accessible for people with special needs or limitations, such as visual impairment or limited motor abilities. How does the software work towards this? What accessibility features are in the pipeline? And how can all users help out? We talk to Michael Weghorn about these topics – and more. (This episode is […]
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October 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Join the LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on the Base database application, preferably full-time, remote (m/f/d)
Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new companies and people with fresh ideas into our community. To improve the Base database application of LibreOffice, the office […]
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October 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Austria’s military switches from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice
Like we’re seeing in Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark and many other government bodies and organisations, the Austrian military (Bundesheer) has migrated 16,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. As Heise reports, the main reasons behind the switch are to: strengthen digital sovereignty maintain independence of IT infrastructure ensure that data is processed in-house The initial plan to […]
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October 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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LibreOffice turns 15: a celebration of freedom, collaboration and open technologies and standards
Fifteen years ago, we announced our ambitious plan to provide the world with a fully free and open office suite created by and for the community. Today, we are celebrating 15 years of LibreOffice — a milestone not only for the software itself, but also for the global movement that it represents. LibreOffice was born […]
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October 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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The artificial complexity of OOXML files (the XLSX case)
The post, published on 18 July 2025, which explained why an artificially complex XML schema, such as that used by Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office) files, is in fact a subtle tool for locking in users because it is invisible and impossible to detect without in-depth study, was picked up by various IT media outlets. […]
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October 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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LibreOffice and Software Freedom Day 2025 in Nepal
Updates from the Nepalese LibreOffice community: Recent protests and stress in Nepal have disrupted regular activities. Almost everything was affected, including in-person events being canceled rapidly. For open source software users, Software Freedom Day 2025 was a big celebration. But many felt disillusioned about the event. Despite all this, our community members in Nepal tuned […]
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October 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Community Member Monday: Devansh Varshney
Today we’re talking to Devansh Varshney, who added histogram chart support to LibreOffice and is working on improvements to the Basic IDE… Tell us a bit about yourself! I am from Mathura in India, one of the historical cities where the first image of Buddha was carved during the Kushan Empire, Jain Tirthankar Neminatha’s birthplace […]
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October 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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LibreOffice-focused talks at the Open Source Conference 2025 Luxembourg
The Open Source Conference 2025 will take place the 1st of October 2025 in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, following a very successful first edition in 2024 in combination with the LibreOffice Conference. Open Source software, together with data sovereignty, form the basis to achieve Digital Sovereignty as an inclusive effort where all the participants cooperate to […]
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October 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Video recap: LibreOffice Conference 2025
Here’s a quick video recap from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2025 which took place in Budapest. Thanks to everyone who attended 😊 (The 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. […]
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October 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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LibreOffice case study: Flotte Karotte
Companies around the world use LibreOffice to reduce costs, improve their privacy, and free themselves from dependence on single vendors. Today we’re talking to Flotte Karotte, a German company with 50 employees that recently made a generous donation to support the LibreOffice project and community: What is Flotte Karotte? Flotte Karotte is an organic delivery […]
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October 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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TDF Annual Report 2024
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, and now the full version is available in PDF format on TDF’s Nextcloud server in two different versions: low resolution […]
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September 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM