You arrive in a city you have never visited before. You are tired. You find your room, open your suitcase, pull out a charger, and plug it into the wall. The small green light comes on. You think nothing of it, because nothing happened. You moved between two countries, two Continue reading at the publisher's website.

This is part of the Annual Report 2025 from The Document Foundation, the non-profit that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community. Across the reporting period, the public conversation about office software and document formats shifted decisively. The justification for moving away from proprietary suites is no longer framed primarily as Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Earlier in this series I described the invisible architecture of lock-in as three stacked layers. A document depends on its format, which depends on a rendering engine to become visible, which depends on the fonts that give it its final shape. Each layer is a dependency the user rarely sees Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started by announcing LibreOffice 26.2.4, the fourth bugfix update to the current stable branch of the suite. Throughout the month, we continued our blog post Continue reading at the publisher's website.

There is a sophisticated mechanism by which proprietary technology ecosystems maintain their grip on users and institutions, even when those users and institutions believe they are making free choices, using open standards, and building independent digital infrastructure. The mechanism does not work through force, but through a subtler and more Continue reading at the publisher's website.

This is part of the Annual Report 2025 from The Document Foundation, the non-profit that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community. In 2025, The Document Foundation and the global LibreOffice community pursued a marketing and advocacy programme that combined the established work of community building and software promotion with a Continue reading at the publisher's website.

This is part of the Annual Report 2025 from The Document Foundation, the non-profit that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community. More will be posted soon… Donations In 2025, The Document Foundation received 140,593 donation transactions, for a total of €1,807,780 net of payment processing and currency conversion charges. This Continue reading at the publisher's website.

This is part of the Annual Report 2025 from The Document Foundation, the non-profit that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community. More will be posted soon… LibreOffice Conference The LibreOffice Conference was the annual get-together of the worldwide LibreOffice community, bringing together developers, contributors, and users. The 2025 event was Continue reading at the publisher's website.

When The Document Foundation was announced sixteen years ago, some people found the name a little flat. It didn’t sparkle. It named an object — the document — rather than a product, a movement, or an aspiration. Today, that same name is worth a second look, because it turns out Continue reading at the publisher's website.

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest Getting Started Guide, updated for LibreOffice 26.2! The Documentation Team is proud to present this new edition, designed to help users with an introductory guide of LibreOffice, covering all aspects of the best open source free office suite, from word Continue reading at the publisher's website.