New podcast episode! #LibreOffice is available in over 120 languages – but we want to do more! Jonathan Clark recently joined the TDF team to improve LibreOffice’s support for RTL (right-to-left) and CTL (complex text layout) scripts: peertube.opencloud.lu/w/c31Cgi… #foss #openSource #freesoftware
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last month of last year – click the links to learn more… At the start of December, we announced a new Code of Ethics and Fiduciary Duties for The Document Foundati…
Sounds like a good moment to donate again to #Libreoffice 🤟️ and a whole lot of other FOSS projects, thanks to whom I haven't seen MS Office ( nor Windows by the way) ( nor any Microsoft ekhm "product") for years
For decades, “The Year of the Linux Desktop” was treated as a tech world punchline. But as we enter 2026, the data shows the laughter has stopped. Between th...
For years we’ve maintained LibreOffice Viewer for Android, which lets you access files in these formats on mobile devices: Open Document Format (odt, ods, odp, odg) Microsoft Office 2007–365 (docx, xlsx and pptx) Microsoft Office 97–2003 (doc, xls an…
Many thanks to everyone who supported the #LibreOffice project this year – through their own contributions, spreading the word, or donating to support us: libreoffice.org/donate/ ❤️ #foss #openSource
TIL why Sun Microsystems (Bill Joy and all) bought an office suite company in 1999. 🤨
"In August 1999, Star Division was acquired by Sun Microsystems[81][82] for US$59.5 million (equivalent to US$112 million in 2024), reportedly because the acquisition was less expensive than licensing Microsoft Office for Sun's 42,000 employees.[83][84]"
Berlin, 18 December 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.4, the fourth minor update to the free office suite developed by volunteers for personal productivity in office environments on Windows, MacOS and Linux, is now available from the download page.
I'm setting up a new MacBook, and I need #LibreOffice obviously. It occurred to me that it might be available in the App Store, which would be slightly more convenient than a separate download. It is ... for £8.99. What on earth is going on?!
At the recent Open Source Conference 2025 in Luxembourg there were two talks about LibreOffice. The first was Lessons learned from 13 years at The Document Foundation and LibreOffice, where Florian Effenberger, Executive Director of the foundation, t…
use case is a big deal. Sometimes is hard to sell your company anything besides GWS. But #NextCloud if you can push it. If you need no cloud, even better! #LibreOffice all the way! And I've become the dork who pays for my email with #Fastmail, but I love the masked emails feature, and hoping to adopt #JMAP soon!
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…
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.
I just donated to @libreoffice / The Document Foundation! To keep Open Source Software like #LibreOffice available free for everyone, contribute and donate: libreoffice.org/donate/
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:
The foundation behind #LibreOffice - Lessons learned from 13 years at The Document Foundation. My presentation from the Open Source Conference Luxembourg is now online peertube.opencloud.lu/w/otUXrL…
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…
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...
We have a new full-time developer! Dan Williams joins the #LibreOffice team, working on design, UI and #UX improvements – with an initial focus on macOS. Of course, everything we do is open source, so you can help him: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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.
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? // 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 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.
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.
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.
It's easy enough. I use #LibreOffice because I dislike intensely being tied to a corporate sales machine that wants to monetise my every blink, that over complicates their stuff with bloat and that tries to make my pattern of work fit how they want it to function at this current time, due to the marketing dept whims. And overcharge by pushing us to a rental model.
I use #LibreOffice because it’s a fully functional, free and compatible alternative to the bloated MS office. Your documents are yours. There is no AI being forced on you. Also, the level of interface customisation is great. Quick and easy to install and use.
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…
