Most of the work in the LibreOffice project takes place online – in our Git repository, on mailing lists, on IRC and other places. But where possible, we like to meet in-person as well, at events around the world! Last weekend, for instance, we were at the Augsburger Linux-Infotag in

Recently, The Document Foundation published an open letter to European citizens. We asked Euro-Office – the new coalition forming around a European alternative for productivity – whether ODF (the Open Document Format) would be its native document format. Unfortunately, we have not yet received a reply, and this confirms –

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 April by announcing the LibreOffice Writer Guide 26.2. This is an extensive handbook full of tutorials, tips and tricks for the software. A huge

Berlin, 30 April 2026 – The Document Foundation today announces the release of LibreOffice 26.2.3, the third maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch, which was released in early February. This update delivers targeted bug and compatibility fixes, along with stability improvements contributed by our global community. LibreOffice 26.2.3 is

Petr Valach from the Czech LibreOffice community writes: On the last weekend of March 2026, the regular InstallFest 2026 conference took place. Here is a summary of the news and insights we gained at the event. New venue What every visitor noticed immediately upon entering was the change in the

In the LibreOffice project, our goal isn’t to just make a powerful office suite – but to also make it usable for as many people as possible. And a big part of that is translating the user interface, help content and websites. LibreOffice (the app itself) is available in over

Jiajun Xu writes, following on from part 1: The annual community event LibreOffice Asia Conference was held on December 13–14, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. One of the sessions was a panel discussion titled “Lessons from Open Source Business,” moderated by Franklin Weng, featuring three company leaders from different countries sharing

LibreOffice Writer is the suite’s word processor, and can be used for virtually any task involving… well, processing words, of course. But how about screenwriting (aka writing screenplays)? We saw a discussion on Ask LibreOffice where user Peter J. talked about his experiences in this field. Initially he described LibreOffice’s

Jiajun Xu writes: The annual community event LibreOffice Asia Conference was held on December 13-14 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. One of the sessions was a panel discussion titled “Lessons from Open Source Business,” moderated by Franklin Weng, featuring three company leaders from different countries sharing how they run their businesses

LibreOffice Base is the database component of the suite, and hasn’t seen a lot of development activity in recent years. So The Document Foundation – the non-profit behind the software – wants to change that! Following Neil Roberts, we now have a second new developer, Vissarion Fisikopoulos, so let’s hear

The Document Foundation was created in 2010 with a single, non-negotiable premise: that a free, fully-featured office suite, built on open standards and governed in the public interest, is infrastructure for democracy. Not a product. Not a market position. Infrastructure, the kind that belongs to everyone and can be taken

What are we doing in the LibreOffice project? Where are we going, and how can all users (yes, even non-programmers) help to improve the software? We answered these questions – and more – at the recent Grazer Linuxtage event. Click here to watch the talk

Ravi Dwivedi from the Indian LibreOffice community writes: On the 29th of March 2026, we celebrated Document Freedom Day in Noida India. Thanks for Essentia.dev for the venue and sflc.in for sponsoring snacks and the cake. sflc.in is a donor-supported legal services organisation in India. The event featured a few

The Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (English page) is a yearly event in Germany for fans of free and open source software. This year, the LibreOffice project was present, as Karl-Heinz Gruner describes: LibreOffice had an information booth at the event. Stickers and flyers were very popular. An excerpt from their extensive video

The LibreOffice Community has now a reshaped website to access the LibreOffice official literature.   Thanks to Juan José Gonzalez (TDF Web Technology Engineer), the bookshelf website has been redesigned to carry new aesthetics and user interface. Web visitors have now a summary of each guide and easy way to

Yes, we should have published this blog post some time ago. We would like to thank Mike Kaganski, who was affected by the recent suspension of membership, for reminding us so politely of our oversight: mikekaganski.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/the-post-they-managed-to-avoid/. Had we published the post earlier, we would probably have avoided some of the

Over the past week, a number of articles have appeared in the media and comments have been posted on forums containing questions – some explicitly stated and others implied – directed at The Document Foundation. We have done our best to gather all these questions and provide a response that

As promised, we are releasing the updated State of the Project Slide Deck, based on data extracted from the LibreOffice dashboard and the Matomo repository. During the 12 months 295 developers worked on the source code, adding 11.098 new commits (Git): 221 volunteer developers (75%) provided 1.871 commits (17%); 8

Continuing our mission to provide the best LibreOffice documentation for our end users, the Documentation Team is proud to announce the release of the latest Writer Guide for LibreOffice 26.2. Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, this guide covers all aspects of the LibreOffice Writer module—from creating simple one-page

Meritocracy is one of the founding principles of the free and open-source software movement. It is also one of the most controversial terms, and the gap between the different meanings people attribute to it is, in some projects, a source of real and damaging conflict. Let us analyse the meaning