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QA/Dev Report: November 2025 - QA Community Blog
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.3 was announced on November 13 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help on sort options and keyboard shortcuts, added help for field variable formats, the Slide Properties Sidebar deck, named Calc formulas and Arabic…x1sc0 (QA Community Blog)
Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is LibreOffice, the amazing free office suit (document editor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, etc).
I know that I've included this in previous #FreeSoftwareAdvent toots, but I use LibreOffice, particularly Writer, every day.
Better still, this one isn't just for Linux users, so if you are thinking about moving away from your Microsoft or Apple office suite, you can give LibreOffice a try, for free, alongside whatever you use currently, and give it a good go before you made a decision.
LibreOffice 26.2 Beta1 is available for testing - LibreOffice QA Blog
LibreOffice 26.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2026 ( Check the Release Plan ). LibreOffice 26.2 Beta1 is the second pre-release since development of version 26.2 started at the beginning of June, 2025.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
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Winners in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025 – Grab your free sticker pack 😊 - TDF Community Blog
As November started, we kicked off a new Month of LibreOffice campaign, celebrating community contributions all across the project.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶
About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩
🔗 itsfoss.com/news/german-state-…
#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice
Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
I work in education & I use & recommend #LibreOffice to my students:
No licence fees (great for students on a tight budget),
Forward & backward compatibility with files (so you don't lose access to your own & others' work),
UX that just lets you get on with work/study (no pop-ups, ads, nag-ware),
Really useful plugins, e.g. Zotero connector,
& just a pleasure to use! 🤓
I decided not to buy a new PC this #blackfriday due to overpriced #DDR5 #DRAM - thanks AI bros for scalping all the modules, and memory manufacturers for all the (past) cartels. Instead, I chose to #donate to the following #opensource projects, which I use and I am grateful for, and provide clear instructions for donating on their website or in their READMEs, allow one-time donations, and do not require GitHub (Sponsors) account:
LibreOffice Conference 2026 and 2027 - The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice Conference 2026 in Pordenone, Italy, and LibreOffice Conference 2027 in Gothenburg, Sweden LibreOffice Conference 2026 will be organised by PNlug (Pordenone Linux User Group) and the University of Pordenone in the city of Pordenone, on th…Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Ok so hey #SelfHosting
I want a #SelfHosted web-type Office Suite ala Google Sheets/Docs and I don't want it to be part of some gigantic resource-chewing albatross like #NextCloud
I would like to do all my Word Processing and Spreadsheeting and so forth through a web interface, which is served from my #Debian server (docker is fine) and saves the documents as normal files in a defined directory.
Does such a thing exist? I do NOT need feature-rich, I do not need it to save MSOffice docs that I can send to a printing shop with all bugs intact, I just want to stop losing shit to hard drive wipes, which I'm sorry but nuking my hard drive is a lifestyle choice at this point and I don't care what you think about it.
I have had the thought that maybe #LibreOffice has some sort of plugin or something which could store files in an Object Storage type thingy that I could self-host instead, cause I've been planning to get some sort of bucket online since forever...
Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
The Document Foundation is the small non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. It oversees the project and community, and is now expanding with new developer roles.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Hat jemand eine Ahnung, warum in #LibreOffice Calc meine .ods Tabelle (keine Formatierung, keine Formeln, unter 200 Datensätze, 47 KB) beim Speichern als .csv plötzlich absurde 18,5 MB(!) groß wird? Und wie ich das behebe?
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Does anyone know why my LibreOffice Calc table (no formatting, no calculations, less than 200 data sets, 47 KB) suddenly blows up to the absurd size of 18.5 MB(!) when I save it as a .csv? And how I can fix this?
LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha1 is available for testing - LibreOffice QA Blog
LibreOffice 26.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2026 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 26.2 started at the beginning of June, 2025.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
LibreOffice has never once insulted my intelligence by unhelpfully popping up to ask if I want help writing a document.
It just sits there, silently awaiting my input. #LibreOffice
LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025 Japan is coming! - The Document Foundation Blog
Tokyo, Japan – The LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025 is scheduled to take place on December 13-14, 2025, at the Internet Initiative Japan Inc. headquarters in Iidabashi Grand Bloom, Tokyo.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
I use #LibreOffice because it is cross platform, doesn't need an account to log in, and is very stable.
Several times in the past I have used it to open Microsoft Word documents that were "corrupted" and Word couldn't open them itself, but LibreOffice Writer could!
It also supports an amazing number of file formats, and I have used to amend PDF files without needing an expensive copy of Adobe Acrobat to do simple changes.
There's none of that AI rubbish or annoying prompts trying to get you to upgrade to pointless newer versions.
❤️
I use LibreOffice because I don't want to make Bill Gates any richer.
It's also much easier to use. I love the clean, comprehensive user interface.
Last but not least, interoperability is a huge advantage compared to Microsoft Office.
Can #LibreOffice be used for online collaboration, one of the main reasons why I still use #GoogleDocuments... ?
Month of LibreOffice, November 2025 – Half-way point! - The Document Foundation Blog
We’re just over half-way through the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025. And already, 219 contributors have won cool LibreOffice sticker packs! Details on how to claim them will be provided at the end of the month, but if you don’t see your name (or…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Making a simple form in LibreOffice Base to do the equivalent of a minimal Google Form, but local instead of sending the data to Google.
Here's where I'm stuck: How do I rig up a button that saves the current record *and* starts a new one? Do I have to write a macro for this?
# "Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer"
I was asked recently about how I get on using LibreOffice for document-related legal work, and I promised to write down some thoughts.
The short answer is that I use a mix of LibreOffice and other FOSS tools, and I’m very positive about it, with no particular concerns.
If you have questions, please do ask!
It looks like #libreoffice #impress does not react to the forward and back buttons on my mouse at all. Would be very handy to be able to use that as a presenter though. Is there any way I can set this up easily? (And maybe a bug report to make it happen by default?)
@libreoffice is that broken just for me or a missing feature in general?
Ouch. I was really happy to discover LibreOffice Impress Remote app for iOS - but the last update was in 2014 and it doesn't run on current iOS :(
Not reflected in the current docs it seems, ping @libreoffice
Any iOS developers with spare time wanting to get it up to speed? :)
So I'm using LibreOffice 25.8.2.2 on Fedora Workstation 43 GNOME 49.
For some privacy reasons I'll not be able to attach the entire PDF. However, I can show the page 15 that I was trying to open using LibreOffice Draw in image form.
It contains a combination of Bengali & English language and numerals.
EDIT : This previous issue of mine is still not fixed yet -> mastodon.social/@javalps/11534…
When can I expect the new version?
#libreoffice #linux #libreofficedraw #bengali #fedora #gnome
QA/Dev Report: October 2025 - LibreOffice QA Blog
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.2 was announced on October 9 LibreOffice 25.2.7 was announced on October 30 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for R1C1 Calc formula syntax and DOI citation recognition and improved and updated help on dimension…x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
@libreoffice Do you know if odfdom-java is maintained? It has a bunch of outdated dependencies, but there seems to be at least some activity in the source repository.
There is also something odd with the versioning, where there is a 1.0.0-beta from 2019, but the latest release is from 2023 is 0.12.0. This causes dependency check tools to be somewhat confused.
Or is there perhaps an alternative library I should be using instead to connect to a running instance of Libreoffice?
@systeemkabouter@maljaars.net @libreoffice Same here - thanks a lot for this great piece of software!
Do something awesome! Join the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025 - The Document Foundation Blog
Love LibreOffice? Join the project and help to make it even better – get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve the software – and you can help th…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
LibreOffice project and community recap: October 2025 - 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 the month by posting the LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #5 –Accessibility in Free and Open Source Softwar…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
LibreOffice at LinuxDays 2025 in Prague - The Document Foundation Blog
On October 4 and 5, the LinuxDays 2025 event took place at the Faculty of Information Technology (Czech Technical University).Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Join the LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on scripting support, preferably full-time, remote (m/f/d) - The Document Foundation Blog
Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice.Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation)