LibreOffice is only possible thanks to your donations! Here’s how they helped us in 2025 – and if you want to support our project and community, please see this page. Thank you 😊 Continue reading at the publisher's website.

The European Commission has accepted our request, and starting from today – Friday March 6 – has added the Open Document Format ODS version of the spreadsheet to be used to provide the feedback. We are grateful to the people working at DG CONNECT, the Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Continue reading at the publisher's website.

I have already covered the topic of font replacement in LibreOffice in 2020 and in 2025. Unfortunately, the vast majority of personal computer users are unaware of this issue and believe that the fonts installed on their PC are the only fonts available. None of them realise that personal computer Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Comments continue to be posted on articles that refer to blog posts on OOXML and related topics, from users who claim to support FOSS but in fact choose proprietary software, for reasons that have nothing to do with the support they claim to offer. These users share a preference for Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Videos describing new features available on YouTube and PeerTube Berlin, 26 February 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.1, the first maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch. Building on the major feature release published on February 4, 2026, this update delivers targeted bug fixes Continue reading at the publisher's website.

As part of the Outreachy programme, which aims to bring a wider variety of people into the tech industry, Siddhi Salunkhe has been working on improvements to the LibreOffice hyperlink dialog box. It now has standard tabs, and will be easier to maintain going forward. Thanks to Ilmari and Heiko Continue reading at the publisher's website.

LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to develop LibreOffice Online, but in 2022 the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation voted to freeze the Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Everyone loves having shiny new features in LibreOffice. But how do we get them? Many are developed by volunteers and people in the ecosystem. But another great source of new features is the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Berlin, 19 February 2026 – LibreOffice 25.8.5, the fifth update to the FOSS office suite [1] developed by volunteers for personal productivity in office environments on Windows, MacOS and Linux, has landed at www.libreoffice.org/download. LibreOffice 25.8.5 is based on the highly robust LibreOffice technology platform, which supports the development of Continue reading at the publisher's website.