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Get a quick overview of some of the new features in LibreOffice 25.8, released on Wednesday. (This video is also available on PeerTube).
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LibreOffice no incluye inteligencia artificial (IA) de serie. Sin embargo, muchos usuarios desean contar con esas funciones, por lo que animamos a los desarrolladores a que las ofrezcan como extensiones opcionales. Y eso es lo que ha hecho Igor Támara, …
Berlin, 20. avgust 2025 – TDF (The Document Foundation) objavlja izid izdaje LibreOffice 25.8. Ta najnovejša različica brezplačnega odprto-kodnega pisarniškega paketa, ki je vodilni na trgu, se še naprej osredotoča na digitalno suverenost in zaščito zasebnosti Posameznikom, organizacijam in vladam ponuja popoln nadzor nad njihovimi podatki in najobsežnejša orodja za produktivnost.
V globalnem kontekstu naraščajoče zaskrbljenosti glede zasebnosti podatkov, zaklepanja v oblaku in kapitalizma nadzorovanja ravno LibreOffice 25.8 ponuja konkretne rešitve.
Odprta koda: Izvorna koda je na voljo za pregled in je popolnoma brez lastniških tehnoloških omejitev.
Zasebnost in nadzor: LibreOffice ne zbira osebnih podatkov, metrik uporabe ali diagnostičnih informacij in je v skladu s predpisi o varstvu podatkov, ki jih zahtevajo implementacije javne uprave (GDPR).
Krajevno izvajanje: vse funkcije se izvajajo krajevno na uporabnikovem računalniku, brez potrebe po internetni ali oblačni povezavi.
Sodelovanje ob lastnem gostovanju: integracija s krajevnimi rešitvami v oblaku, kot je Nextcloud, omogoča ekipam, da sodelujejo, ne da bi delile svoje informacije z velikimi tehnološkimi podjetji.
Uporabniški vmesnik: pogovorno okno Dobrodošli/Novosti zdaj ponuja dostop do izbirnika uporabniškega vmesnika in možnosti videza, kar novim uporabnikom omogoča, da izkoristijo prilagodljiv uporabniški vmesnik LibreOffice in prilagodijo videz in uporabnost glede na svoje želje.
Zmogljivost: vse je hitrejše, od zagona do pomikanja po velikih dokumentih – z znatnim povečanjem hitrosti na manj zmogljivih računalnikih.
Boljša medopravilnost z datotekami Microsoft Office, z natančnejšo obdelavo datotek DOCX, XLSX in PPTX ter manj težav z oblikovanjem, zahvaljujoč spremembam, kot so:
Seveda ponuja tudi druge pomembne nove funkcije, kot je možnost izvoza v zapisu PDF 2.0 in več novih storitev knjižnice ScriptForge. Seznam vseh novosti se nahaja tukaj: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8/sl
Kar zadeva spremembe podpore za operacijske sisteme, LibreOffice 25.8 ne bo več deloval v sistemih Windows 7, 8/8.1 ali (32-bitnih) različicah x86. To je tudi zadnja različica, ki jo lahko izvajate na macOS 10.15.
Organizacija TDF sodeluje z globalno mrežo certificiranih partnerjev, ki nudijo podporo in vzdrževanje za poslovno rabo v podjetjih, prilagojene funkcije in integracije ter pomoč pri migraciji in usposabljanju uporabnikov. Celoten seznam partnerjev najdete tukaj: https://sl.libreoffice.org/po-pomoc/profesionalna-podpora/
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty
Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8. This latest version of the market-leading free open source office suite maintains its focus on digital sovereignty and privacy protection. It offers individuals, organisations, and governments total control over their data and the most comprehensive productivity tools.
In a global context of growing concern about data privacy, cloud lock-in, and surveillance capitalism, LibreOffice 25.8 provides concrete solutions.
Open Source: The source code is available for inspection and is completely free from proprietary technology constraints.
Privacy and Control: LibreOffice does not collect personal data, usage metrics or diagnostic information, and complies with the data protection regulations required by public administration implementations (GDPR).
Local Execution: all features are executed locally on the user’s computer, without the need for an internet or cloud connection.
Self-Hosted Collaboration: Integration with on-premises cloud solutions, such as Nextcloud, enables teams to collaborate without sharing information with Big Tech.
User Interface: the Welcome/What’s New dialog now offers access to the user interface picker and appearance options, allowing new users to leverage LibreOffice’s flexible UI and personalise the look and feel according to their preferences.
Performance: everything is faster, from startup to scrolling through large documents – with significant speed improvements on less powerful machines.
Better Interoperability with Microsoft Office files, with more accurate handling of DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files and fewer formatting issues, thanks to changes such as:
There are, of course, other important new features, such as the ability to export to the PDF 2.0 format, and several new ScriptForge library services. The complete list is available here: wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8.
In terms of operating system support changes, LibreOffice 25.8 will no longer run on Windows 7 or 8/8.1 versions. It is also the last version to run on macOS 10.15. Support for x86 (32-bit) Windows versions is deprecated.
The Document Foundation collaborates with a global network of certified partners who offer enterprise-grade support and maintenance, customised features and integrations, and assistance with user migration and training. A full list of partners can be found here: www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/.
LibreOffice 25.8 is completely free and offers a viable alternative to proprietary office suites for individual users, schools, businesses, and public institutions. It contains no advertising, data tracking, or subscriptions.
It is ideal for students and teachers who …
La mejor suite ofimática de código abierto sigue evolucionando sin perder de vista la privacidad y la soberanía digital
Berlín, 20 de Agosto de 2025 – The Document Foundation ha anunciado el lanzamiento de LibreOffice 25.8. Esta última versión de …
LibreOffice does not include artificial intelligence (AI) out-of-the-box. But many users want AI features in the suite – so we encourage developers to make them available as optional extensions. And that’s what Igor Támara did, creating the “Stable Diffusion for LibreOffice” extension for AI-generated images powered by AI Horde (a volunteer crowd-sourced distributed cluster of image generation workers).
We talked to Igor about the extension – here’s what he had to say:
You write some text describing an image, and get an AI image generated from the given text. You can tweak parameters, choose a model and use the best result on written documents, presentations or the place you prefer. The images are generated on volunteer GPUs through AI Horde.
Two weeks ago, starting from a Gimp plugin as a base. I’m brand new to the LibreOffice project, and started it as a macro to get this functionality in the software. One week later I put it on GitHub.
Later on I got help from friendly people on the forum to turn it into an extension. I also joined the the chat and filled some requests in the bug tracker.
Be aware that the text you provide is sent to AI Horde and seen by the machines that create the image, so do not send sensitive data. Also, you can get better results if you send the description of the desired image in English. You are encouraged to try different languages to see the results.
You need internet connection to use it. If you wanted to create images locally on your machine, it would take time to configure your environment with local AI models, with gigabytes of memory dedicated to this purpose, and maybe processing for hours to get something useful.
Sometimes the text can be marked as NSFW (“not safe for work”) – in which case you end up with black and white text saying so.
For now, the extension works in Writer and Impress; when invoked from other LibreOffice components, it opens a new text document and inserts the image along with the provided text.
The roadmap includes:
Report any problems you find, and help to translate into your language. Please do so by filling an issue with your intention saying which language.
If you have a GPU (and good graphics hardware in general), you can volunteer as a worker joining the horde, to add to the computing power – and you can earn kudos to have higher priority when you need it.
If you work with a friendly company that wants to make use of the existing hardware, you can join the horde too …
En el mundo digital, los formatos de documentos son esenciales. Los formatos privativos, como DOCX de Microsoft Word o XLSX de Excel, dominan el lugar de trabajo, pero al mismo tiempo obligan a los usuarios a utilizar un proveedor específico …
In the digital world, document formats are essential. Proprietary formats such as Microsoft Word’s DOCX or Excel’s XLSX dominate the workplace, but at the same time they lock users into a specific vendor and its business strategies, which tend to exploit users to the maximum in every way. The Open Document Format (ODF) offers an open, standard alternative that protects users and their privacy, promotes interoperability, long-term access and data ownership.
Migrating documents from proprietary formats to ODF is the solution, and although vendors who rely on proprietary formats – not only Microsoft, but also its freeware clones such as OnlyOffice or WPS Office – do everything they can to prevent it, it is very easy and represents a fundamental step forward for users in terms of privacy and digital sovereignty (i.e., ownership of their own content).
This guide breaks down the migration process to make the transition smooth, efficient and sustainable, both at the individual level (where problems are virtually non-existent) and at the enterprise level, where problems exist due to the lock-in strategies of proprietary formats.
Step 1: Understand ODF and its advantages
Step 2: Document inventory to define conversion priorities and estimate the effort required for migration
Step 3: plan the migration workflow
Step 4: Converting documents to ODF format
Step 5: Monitoring the migration
Conclusion
Migrating from proprietary formats to ODF is a strategic move, both individually and for businesses, towards openness, content control and document protection for the future. In a business environment, it requires careful planning and user involvement, but the benefits in terms of flexibility, interoperability and cost savings are well worth the effort.
This post is part of a series to describe how Writer now gets a feature to handle tables that are both floating and span over multiple pages.
This work is primarily for Collabora Online, but is useful on the desktop as well. See the 11th post for the previous part.
Previous posts described the hardest part of multi-page floating tables: making sure that text can wrap around them and they can split across pages. In this part, we'll look at a conflicting requirement. On one hand, headings want their text to not split across pages (and shapes anchored into paragraphs are considered part of the paragraph, too). On the other hand, it should be OK to have a floating table at the bottom of a page and the following heading to go to the next page.
It turns out, Writer gave "keep together" a priority, while Word gave "floating tables are OK to split to a previous page" a priority.
Note that if you have a shape (e.g. a triangle) and not a floating table, then both Word and Writer prevents the move of that shape to a previous page (if the shape is anchored in a heading); this difference was there just for floating tables.
Here is how the tdf#167222 bugdoc looks like now in Writer:
Floating table, followed by heading: new Writer render
And here is how it used to look like:
Floating table, followed by heading: old Writer render
And here is the reference rendering:
Floating table, followed by heading: reference render
This means that we leave layout for shapes unchanged in general: shapes anchored in headings are still considered to be part of headings and don't split. But for floating tables, we now allow them to split and use space at a previous page if they fit there.
If you would like to know a bit more about how this works, continue reading... :-)
As usual, the high-level problem was addressed by a series of small changes:
You can get a development edition of Collabora Online 25.04 and try it out yourself right now: try the development edition. Collabora intends to continue supporting and contributing to LibreOffice, the code is merged so we expect all of this work will be available in TDF's next release too (26.2).
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released next week, on August 20, 2025 (check the Release Plan). LibreOffice 25.8 RC3 brings us closer to the final version, which will be preceded by a last minute LibreOffice 25.8 RC4 needed for a fix solving an easy to trigger crash. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.
LibreOffice 25.8 RC3 is already available, while LibreOffice 25.8 RC4 will be available from Thursday, August 14. Both can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and will replace the standard installation.
In case you find any problem in these pre-releases, please report it in Bugzilla (you just need a legit email account in order to create a new account). For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Matrix.
LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test, we appreciate your contribution! Happy testing!!!
Adhering to these guidelines can enhance productivity and guarantee that documents remain consistent, robust and accessible over time, irrespective of the platform.
Firstly, use an editor such as LibreOffice that natively supports the format without conversion. This preserves the nuances of the ODF XML structure, supports all its features and reduces the risk of formatting issues or data loss. It also ensures that documents are fully compatible with the ISO standard.
Secondly, use an up-to-date version of LibreOffice to benefit from continuous improvements in ODF feature management, avoid bugs that could cause file corruption (a rare event thanks to the robustness of the ODF format, but still possible) and enjoy the highest level of security in file management.
Thirdly, use LibreOffice document templates and styles for all elements, such as headings, fonts, paragraphs, and tables, to ensure consistent formatting throughout the document. This allows you to make global changes quickly by changing the style rather than each individual element, and improves accessibility, as screen readers and other assistive technologies rely on a consistent structure. This also results in smaller, more robust ODF files.
Creating and reusing LibreOffice templates is an excellent practice for companies that produce many similar documents (such as invoices or monthly reports). Once all the characteristics of the document have been defined, simply save it in ‘template’ format to obtain a blank copy with all repetitive elements already in place.
The fourth condition is to save and back up documents frequently and regularly. ODF files are compressed XML files, which makes them robust and reliable, but not immune to problems. In a business environment, it is advisable to use a cloud storage solution with a version history, such as Nextcloud, which allows you to revert to an earlier version of a file.
The fifth recommendation is to avoid overly complex formatting to ensure maximum compatibility when sharing ODF files with a diverse audience or converting them to other formats, such as Microsoft Office proprietary formats, because complicated layouts, embedded objects or macros may not work or appear differently.
It is recommended that you use basic styles and standard LibreOffice fonts (open source and available to all users), or fonts that can be installed by any user, independently of the operating system, even if backed by an End User Licence Agreement (such as Microsoft Aptos, which can only be downloaded from the Microsoft website). You should also avoid excessive use of tables or nested text boxes.
The sixth condition is to integrate multimedia content sensibly, optimising images or videos used in presentations to reduce their size without compromising quality.
The seventh and final condition is to always save the original file in ODF format, even when sharing with users who insist on using Microsoft Office’s proprietary format — thereby handing over ownership of their files to Microsoft. Once the document is finalised, save a copy in OOXML format and share this with Microsoft users.
Similarly, when receiving an OOXML document from a Microsoft user, immediately save a copy …
Seguir estas pautas puede mejorar la productividad y garantizar que los documentos sigan siendo coherentes, sólidos y accesibles a lo largo del tiempo, independientemente de la plataforma.
En primer lugar, utilice un editor como LibreOffice que admita el formato de …
Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new companies and people with fresh ideas into our community.
To improve the user interface of LibreOffice, the office productivity suite for over 200 million users around the globe, we’re searching for a developer (m/f/d) to start work (from home) as soon as possible. This is what you’ll do:
Examples of tasks:
What we want from you:
Previous development experience under Windows and Linux and contributions to FOSS projects (show us your repos!) are a plus. A previously established relationship within the developer community, as well as with other teams such as QA is a plus, but it is not mandatory at the start and can be achieved during the work itself.
As always, TDF will give some preference to individuals who have previously shown a commitment to TDF, including but not limited to members of TDF. Not being a member does not exclude any applicants from consideration.
All jobs at The Document Foundation are remote jobs, where you can work from your home office or a co-working space. The work time during the day is flexible, apart from a few fixed meetings. The role is offered as full-time (ideally 40 hours per week). While we prefer full-time for the role, part-time applications, or proposals to grow the hours over time, will be considered. Candidates that are resident in (or willing to relocate to) Germany will be employed directly by TDF. Otherwise, external payroll services will be used if available in the candidate’s country of residence.
Are you interested? Get in touch! We aim to schedule the first interview within two weeks of your application. You can also approach us any time for an informal chat, to learn about the role or in case of questions.
TDF welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Don’t …
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