When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is reasonable: an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support. Standards exist precisely so that nobody is locked to a single supplier. OOXML — Continue reading at the publisher's website.

LibreOffice is made by hundreds of people around the world, working on code, documentation, QA, translations, marketing, infrastructure and much more. Coordinating the project’s activities is the team at The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice. Let’s see what the team members do: 1. Christian Lohmaier, Release Engineer Christian’s typical Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Executive Summary This proposal suggests restarting LibreOffice web, mobile, and cloud development by structuring the project into a set of independent initiatives. Each initiative can be pursued separately from the others, and their deliverables will be useful improvements to LibreOffice even without the other components. • Responsive user interface • Continue reading at the publisher's website.

A number of journalists read last week’s piece as an attack on Microsoft. We want to explain what they walked past. Whenever we address the contrast between ODF and OOXML, some people perceive it as a campaign against a company. It is not. We are trying to do something far Continue reading at the publisher's website.

LibreOffice is a desktop application, and we will continue making it. But we have constant requests for web and mobile versions, so here is our updated plan. These are minutes from the TDF Team and Board of Directors meetings on web and mobile strategy for LibreOffice: Who was present Team: Continue reading at the publisher's website.

LibreOffice is available in over 120 languages, thanks to the work of localisation communities around the world. We asked them to summarise their work in 2025 – here’s what they had to say… Czech The Czech community maintained an active presence both online and in-person. Their localisation efforts remained strong, Continue reading at the publisher's website.

LibreOffice is free thanks to your donations. Here’s how your support helps us to improve the software and grow the community that makes it 😊 (Note: this video is also available on PeerTube.) Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video. By accepting, you will be accessing content from Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Any other choice is a choice of dependence on a single vendor Digital sovereignty begins with the document format. Everything else – server location, hosting jurisdiction, procurement clauses – is downstream of this single decision. If the format is standard and open, the user controls the document. If the format Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Most people, including many competent software developers, think of a digital document the way they think of a sheet of paper: an inert object that holds words and pictures, indifferent to the tool used to open it. This intuition is wrong, and the consequences of getting it wrong shape everything Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Berlin, 12 May 2026 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.7, the final maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.8 family, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. Users of LibreOffice 25.8.x should update to LibreOffice 26.2.x as LibreOffice 25.8’s end of life will be on June 12, and Continue reading at the publisher's website.