Berlin, 29 August 2025 â 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.
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.
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 â The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.
LibreOffice does not include artificial intelligence (AI) out-of-the-box. But many users want AI features in the suite â so we encourage developers to make them available as optional extensions.
đČđ€Ź 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 â in violation of #copyleft.
Deregulation/lack-of-regulation will bring more of this. â 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.
After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth âŠ
Welp, the latest @thunderbird update has broken my ability to send work emails (and yes, it's definitely the update that's caused it not anything else - on my work inbox it's giving timeouts on all emails since the update, and I checked by updating it on another computer which triggered the exact same bug).
So I hope they fix that soon or I'll have to find another email client which would be a pain :(
LibreOffice's codebase is absolutely massive (~50M lines according to cloc?), and it very much got me beat the other day, when I "speedran" a scant 2 bugfixes in 7 hours.
So today, I'm going for a rematch! Let's see if better tools (rr, ctags) and better understanding of #LibreOffice code is going to be enough for me to get a bugfix in under 2 hours for #BugsDoneQuick! :joy:
Does anyone know of any #FreeSoftware implementations of the #RCS encrypted messaging protocol? There is the nine year old github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta I wonder if that is usable?
Our next major release is coming in August! #LibreOffice 25.8 will have better change tracking in Writer, new functions in Calc, performance boosts and more. The first release candidate is now available for testing: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org⊠#foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024.
Been adding restaurant ratings and reviews to Mangrove Reviews @mangroveReviews using MapComplete @MapComplete
Iâve written 6 so far, and thereâs more to come! Plenty of WIP drafts to finish đ
This really plays to my strengths, combining my love for
writing,
improving OpenStreetMap, free data, and freedom-respecting software,
reviewing (as a child, I liked to review the theatre I watched with my parentsâŠmy parents and their theatre friends would often ask me for my review after the show, and would listen to me intently đ„ș)
âŠand trying new things to eat and drink!
If you like my open data reviews and photos, please support me on Liberapay! I need to be able to afford eating out to continue reviewing đ
PS MapComplete currently removes all line breaks from the reviews it displays (which breaks things like paragraphs and bullet lists), and Mangrove Reviews truncates the text of the reviews it displays. So thereâs no perfect way to view the reviews right nowâŠIâve let the developers know about these issues and they will hopefully fix them soon.
Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same.
General Activities LibreOffice 25.2.4 was announced on June 6 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help for compact layout Pivot Tables, Writer table formula MOD and improved the help for Writerâs Send menu commands, font colour, text attributes for drawing obâŠ
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Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.
Accessibility on Calendar has progressed to the point where I believe it's safe to say that, as of GNOME 49, Calendar will be usable exclusively with a keyboard, without significant usability friction!
There's still a lot of work to be done in regards to screen readers, for example conveying time appropriately and event descriptions. But really, just 6 months ago, we went from having absolutely no idea where to even begin with accessibility in Calendar â which has been an ongoing issue for literally a decade â to having something workable exclusively with a keyboard and screen reader! :3
Huge thanks to @nekohayo for coordinating the accessibility initiative, especially with keeping the accessibility meta issue updated; Georges Stavracas for single-handedly maintaining GNOME Calendar and reviewing all my merge requests; and @tyrylu for sharing feedback in regards to usability.
I woke up to a comment so smug, so perfectly soaked in gatekeeping and faux-righteous posturing, it earned its own blog post. You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something? Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile. This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue. Iâve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesnât even test. I didnât "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn. But apparently, because I didnât call it GNU/Linuxâą and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, Iâm lazy. Iâm weak. I should "get a dog." So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms. This isnât just about one comment. This is about every time someoneâs been told they donât belong because they couldnât learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. Itâs about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software." You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isnât freedom. Itâs abandonment dressed in ideology. And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community? You can keep it. fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you⊠#Linux #GNU #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #FreeSoftware #Gatekeeping #DisabilityInTech #OpenSource #Orca #ScreenReaders #ArchLinux #BurnItDown #blogpost
Exciting day for the #Fediverse! This morning at #UN #OpenSource Week, @haubles announced that @Mastodon has been named as a Digital Public Good for its work to empower communities, protect privacy, and foster authentic connections.
We've come a long, long way... (Top screenshot is StarOffice from the mid-'90s, and bottom is LibreOffice today.) Learn more about the software's roots, with Stefan Soyka: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl⊠#foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent.
With LibreOffice 24.8 close to end of life, all users are invited to update their free office suite to the latest release Berlin, 6 June 2025 â The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 25.2.
Looking forward to attend #DevConf_cz next week together with my @fsfe co-workers @llas @Tobias and @sofiaritz On fsfe.org/events/ you see the different talks by us, and we have a booth at D04 where we are looking forward to discuss different #FreeSoftware topics with you.
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