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.
Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam
Today, we celebrate the close of the June 2025 Outreachy Internship round!
Congratulations to our interns on their amazing contributions and growth.
We sincerely thank and appreciate our mentors + community coordinators for their support and collaboration.
This isn’t the end, it’s the start of many more contributions to the open source ecosystem. Together, we continue to build a more inclusive tech future. 💙
🔐 Tuta Mail introduces key verification to strengthen end-to-end encryption and defend against MITM attacks 👥 Users can now verify contacts’ public keys via QR code or manual comparison. If skipped, Tuta defaults to TOFU (Trust On First Use) for seamless encryption 🧩
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.
The EU needs a corporate “open source contribution tax” to fund open source maintainers
Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars (also a big number). Most of it is one person. And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resource
🎉 226 new and updated icons!
💡 Added support for 640 apps using existing icons.
🔥 13460 icons in total!
⛰️ We are planning on moving away from GitHub to Codeberg!
What's Changed
13.2.4 by @Donnn...
Thunderbird 142.0 has a host of exciting features and bug fixes. From improving the PDF experience to better support for quiet time, learn what's just landed in our recap of the newest monthly release.
The Security Developer-in-Residence role at the Python Software Foundation is funded by Alpha-Omega. Thanks to Alpha-Omega for sponsoring security in the Python ecosystem.
I'm on the...
The slides from my first talk from earlier today at #OSSummit can be found below. Building a SolarPunk Web: Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future
Building a SolarPunk Web Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future Mike Gifford, Open Source Summit Europe 2025 August 27, 2025 2:10-2:50pm CEST D202 (Elicium Level 2) Building a Solarpunk Web: Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future - Mike G…
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 UbuCon India UbuCon India is the first-ever UbuCon by the India LoCo dedicated to the Ubuntu ecosystem and the broader Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community in India.
Great presentation by @polexa at @linuxfoundation #OSSummit talking about relationships between water infrastructure and digital infrastructure. @sovereign.tech has been doing an amazing job of raising the profile of the role #OpenSource place in providing our #DigitalInfrastructure
Nice keynote from Dirk Hohndel at the @linuxfoundationeu.bsky.social #OSSummit reminding us of the importance of #OpenSource ecosystems. #Open is a value that needs to be given more weight over convenience.
Check this out – PyPos3DLO, an app based on LibreOffice to create mechanical characters, edit and optimize Poser files, and manipulate WaveFront files: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
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)…
Initial applications are now open for the December 2025 Outreachy internships!
Outreachy provides remote, paid internships in open source & open science, supporting applicants from any background or identity who are impacted by underrepresentation, systemic bias, or discrimination.
This governance work by @pyladies is truly top notch. The evolution of their governance as the project grows and matures is exactly the way a #FOSS community should operate.
The first public release of Nitro adds another option to the world of init systems, offering a minimalist process supervisor for Linux environments. linuxiac.com/nitro-is-a-new-in…
Hyped for Thunderbird Pro? The team has shared an update on what's planned, including Thundermail e-mail address, appointment scheduling, file sharing, and maybe a bit more!
Thunderbird Pro will offer Thundermail email service, appointment scheduling, file sharing, and maybe even AI features. Email will be hosted on German servers.
#NextCloud really drove me angry. They simply choose to ignore accessibility concerns in favor of so-called "security". It's absolutely none of their business to protect users from viruses and trojans, and saying that "We can't allow one-press copy public link because a script can call this API" is total BS, because in this case any attacker script has access to every file on that PC! Great job, NextCloud, great job. Whenever someone tells me once more about "giving up big corporations", I'll point them to this issue. And yes, I really hope someone sues them because their #desktop client is a total accessibility nightmare. github.com/nextcloud/desktop/i… #OpenSource #Accessibility
Hi, The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version. Could it be possible to bring back this feature ? Below, a screen from a right click on a folder/file with the 3.14.3 client...
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.
Curious about our progress on Thunderbird Pro? Our latest update, direct from Managing Director Ryan Sipes, keeps you in the know - and lets you know how to stay updated:
LibreOffice does not include artificial intelligence (AI) out-of-the-box. But many users want AI features in the suite – so we encourage developers to make them available as optional extensions.
BudgetBraillerBlog: BudgetBraillerBlog Intro. “A manual brailler costs a little under $1,000 and electric braillers cost significantly more. Given that I was just at a 3D printing festival and you can build a 3D printer for under $200, I decided to try to design one.”
😲🤬 re: what's happened to @Codeberg today. The AI ballyhoo *is* a real DDoS against one of the few code hosting sites that takes a stand against slurping #FOSS code into LLM training sets — in violation of #copyleft.
Deregulation/lack-of-regulation will bring more of this. ∃ plenty of blame to go around, but #Microsoft & #GitHub deserve the bulk of it; they trailblazed the idea that FOSS code-hosting sites are lucrative targets.
On August 15, 1997, @Migueldeicaza announced the start of GNOME on the GTK mailing list¹. Twenty-eight years later a lot has changed, but we continue to develop and iterate on “a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools… based entirely on free software.”
To help us continue this work far into the future, we hope you join us in celebrating our birthday by becoming a Friend of GNOME today! 🎂
