Berlin, 30 October 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.7, the final maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. Users of LibreOffice 25.2.x should update to LibreOffice 25.8.x, as LibreOffice 25.2.x is approaching the end of its support period.

LibreOffice 25.2.7 is based on the LibreOffice Technology, which enables the development of desktop, mobile and cloud versions – either from TDF or from the ecosystem – that fully supports the two document format standards: the open ODF or Open Document Format (ODT, ODS and ODP), and the closed and proprietary Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX).

Products based on the LibreOffice Technology are available for all major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF recommends a LibreOffice Enterprise optimized version from one of the ecosystem companies, with dedicated value-added features and other benefits such as SLAs and security patch backports for three to five years (www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/).

English manuals for the LibreOffice 25.2 family are available for download at books.libreoffice.org/en/. End users can get first-level technical support from volunteers on the user mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website: ask.libreoffice.org.

Downloading LibreOffice

All available versions of LibreOffice for the desktop can be downloaded from the same website: www.libreoffice.org/download/.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project by making a donation: www.libreoffice.org/donate.

[1] Fixes in RC1: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/25.2.7/RC1. Fixes in RC2: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/25.2.7/RC2.

On October 4 and 5, the LinuxDays 2025 event took place at the Faculty of Information Technology (Czech Technical University). It combined stands for free and open source software projects with workshops and talks, and the LibreOffice community was there, represented by Zdeněk Crhonek, Petr Valach, Stanislav Horáček and Mike Saunders.

At the stand, we had flyers explaining what LibreOffice is and how it can be used in various contexts (homes, businesses etc.) along with stickers, beer/coffee mats, and printed versions of the handbooks, to show how extensive the documentation for LibreOffice really is. We also had a fun quiz for participants to try.

During the two days, many visitors came to our stand, gave feedback and asked questions. Of course, at an event focused on Linux, most visitors already knew what LibreOffice is (and many used it regularly). But they gave us some useful feedback and asked about new features, including:

• Where is the online version of LibreOffice?
• Better clipboard management (normally handled by the operating system)
• More development of Base (TDF has a new paid developer role for this)
• Better options for copying and pasting in Calc
• Real-time collaboration would be good
• Clearer warnings about formatting problems when opening Microsoft Office documents
• Simplify the user interface, using OBS as an example
• Integrate text translator directly into Writer and Calc
• It would be nice to have an optional automatic cloud saving feature
• Make the tabbed user interface default
• Functions in Calc for interpolating and extrapolating values in 2D and 3D tables

Anyone who wants these features or improvements in LibreOffice is welcome to join our project and help to make it happen, or fund a developer. And we plan to be at more events in the coming months – stay tuned to this blog and our Mastodon account for news!

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 scripting support 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:

• Work on the LibreOffice codebase (mostly C++)
• Focus on scripting and the use of UNO API, including script developer experience with internal and external IDEs
• Fix bugs, implement new features, and improve the quality of scripting-related code in LibreOffice
• Document what you do, actively share knowledge in public with volunteers and contributors via blog posts, workshops and conference talks, so other developers and users have an easier time learning about your work

Examples of tasks:

• Add support for Interactive Python
• Make macro recording production-ready
• Reimplement JavaScript support in order to drop Rhino dependency
• Improve VBA compatibility
• Improve auto-completion support

What we want from you:

• Very good C++ development skills
• Proven experience working with some of the scripting languages supported by LibreOffice
• Good team-playing skills
• Speaking and writing English

Previous 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.

Join us!

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!

TDF welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Don’t be afraid to be different, and stay true to yourself. We like you that way!

We’re looking forward to receiving your application, including information about you (your resume), when you are available for the job, and of course your financial expectations. We expect you to provide details about your C++ experience. Pointing to public repositories with your code is very helpful. Please send us an e-mail to developers …

Libreitalia Conference 2025 was organized by Marco Marega – a LibreItalia and TDF Member – in Gradisca d’Isonzo, near the border with Slovenia, in Gorizia’s province. Gradisca is a very nice fortified city surrounded be beautiful parks. The conference venue was the historical Monte di Pietà palace, that the municipality administration kindly allowed to use.

Gorizia, the administrative center, is a city divided in two parts, half in Italy (Gorizia itself), and half in Slovenia (Nova Gorica). Together, they are the 2025 European’s Capital of Culture.

The conference was very interesting, with members coming from many different cities. Furio Honsell – a councilman of Friuli Venezia Giulia region and also a former mayor of the city of Udine and rector of Udine University – was the special guest, introducing his regional law proposal to promote free software adoption in local administrations.

Italo Vignoli had two talks, one about the end of Windows 10 support and the other about the 20th anniversary of the ODF format. Marco Gaiarin had a brief talk about good practices for free software adoption. Giulia Bimbi spoke about Italian laws regulating free software adoption in public administrations.

Blerta Mecani and Moreno Cervesato of PNLUG, Pordenone Linux Users’ group, talked about their activities, with a special focus on their project leveraging Italian rules which permit to legally recover used PCs, install Linux on them and then donate them to schools.

Sonia Zorba and Andrej Sossi presented Trieste Linux Users group activities, and their game to learn command line.

Marco Marega opened the day introducing free software and LibreOffice to newbies.
In the afternoon, he explained – together with Gabriele Ponzo – how to contribute to the LibreOffice project, focusing on the tools used to localize the software’s UI and the documentation.

Marco did a very good job in organizing the event, and was very happy to see many community members meeting in his hometown. The conference was a great occasion to strengthen our community.

On November 22/23, some of the conference attendees will meet again in Pordenone, another administrative center of Friuli Venezia Giulia, at the Linux Arena within the Radioamatore2 fair.

People without disabilities have no problem viewing documents on a computer screen, but there are people with visual impairments or who are blind who use screen readers and keyboard navigation. ODF files have everything they need to be accessible to these people too, and this is a short guide to creating documents that they can use without any problems.

In the context of digital document management, accessible means that a document can be consulted without any constraints related to the ability to see or move one’s hands with dexterity. This means that people can quickly find what they are looking for (headings, lists, indexes), understand the meaning of graphs and images thanks to descriptions, tables are simple and clear, and they can read the text because the contrast is good and the links make sense even out of context.

To achieve this result, which does not discriminate against people based on their physical characteristics, it is necessary to follow a few simple rules when creating a document. Obviously, we are talking about LibreOffice, although the rules also apply to other office suites (although in this case the document format will be proprietary and not standard).

1. Use styles for headings (not just bold text)

• Screen readers use headings to move around the page.
• To do this, select the heading and choose Heading 1 from the styles drop-down menu, Heading 2 for sections, and Heading 3 for subsections.
• Avoid skipping numbers, but always follow the order 1, 2, 3.

2. Create lists using the appropriate buttons

• This way, screen readers count the items correctly.
• To do this, highlight the items and click on the Bulleted List or Numbered List button. Avoid typing dots or numbers manually.

3. Add alternative text to every image, graph or icon

• This way, people who cannot see the image will still receive the message.
• To do this, right-click on the image, select Properties, select Options, and fill in the Alternative (text only) field.
• For example: in the case of an image, ‘team photo: from left to right, Mr. X, Mr. Y, and Mr. Z’; in the case of a graph, ‘sales increased every month, and the fourth quarter was the highest with £X million’.

4. Create simple tables

• Complex tables are difficult for screen readers to read.
• To do this, use the first row for headers (for example: Name and Date), and avoid merging or splitting cells.
• Avoid using tables solely to order elements within the page.

5. Create self-explanatory links

• A link such as “click here” tells a screen reader nothing.
• To do this, write the action related to the link as if it were the link itself.
• For example: “Download the budget report (in ODF format)”.

6. Set the language

• This allows screen readers to pronounce words correctly.
• To do this for the entire document, select the language in the status bar at the bottom of the screen.
• To do this for a portion of the document, highlight the text and select the …

Gustavo Pacheco send us this report on the activities of the sixth edition of the Latin American LibreOffice Congress, held in Habana, Cuba, from October 6 to 9, 2025:

Official photo Cibersociedad 2025 + Latin American LibreOffice Congress

With a completely different organizational model than in previous years, our conference was held as a prominent section within another broader event: the Cibersociedad 2025 congress.

Held every two years by the Union of Computer Scientists of Cuba, Cibersociedad aims to be a space for innovation and proposals for the construction of a more sustainable and equitable digital future.

For the events in 2019 in Asunción, 2022 in Brasília and 2023 in Mexico City, we had the support of universities, and in 2024 in Montevide, support local communities. But 2025 marked a new moment for the Latin American organizing committee. On this occasion, our relationship was established with an organization of professionals, the UIC, which contributed all its knowledge and structure to the planning of a joint event.

The idea arose from the proposal of the president of the UIC in 2023, Ailyn Febles, who, in contact with Gustavo Pacheco, presented the invitation to hold the conference in Cuba, motivated by the legacy left by Carlos Parra (1961-2022), an active member of both the UIC and theTDF.

As in 2023 we already had our congress confirmed for Mexico City, we would talk again during that year to align the possibilities.

In addition to the excellent event in Mexico City, at that time we also had the Montevideo congress. That one was an atypical event, as it was carried out as a contingency to the originally planned place, the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil, affected by the largest flood of the century in May 2024. The event was only saved from being canceled thanks to the support of the Uruguayan community. Thus, for the first time, the congress was held in a public space outside a university: a challenge also for local volunteers.

We did not reach the expected face-to-face audience, but we had a meeting with exceptionally high-quality participations. With the participation of Gastón Hannay in the graphic design activities, we achieved the objective of the congress to always bring, as a minimum, a new permanent volunteer for the project, in addition to interesting results from the participation among the members, such as the development of new formulas for Calc, by Xisco Fauli, based on the presentation of the practical experience of Ismael Fanlo with spreadsheet users.

With the results of 2024, we began planning for 2025 based on the premise of taking advantage of our participation in the event to visit universities, public institutions, third sector entities, local communities, etc., in their own organizational spaces. This idea was very well received by the then new president of the UIC, Omar Correa.

The initiative would also fit the way the event would be carried out. By incorporating our event into a larger one, we obtained the benefit …

This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more developers into free and open source software development. Seven projects were finished successfully. Contributors and mentors enjoyed the time, and here we present some of the achievements, which should make their way into LibreOffice 26.2 in early February 2026!

You can experiment with the new features by using daily builds and report any problems in our bug tracker.

Import Markdown files into LibreOffice Writer by Ujjawal Kumar Chouhan

Mentors: Thorsten Behrens (Collabora), Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF)

Requests to add support for the simple text formatting language known as Markdown to LibreOffice have been more and more frequent. These days Markdown is often encountered in forum posts, chat messages and readme files. In fact, the content of the website of The Document Foundation is written in Markdown.

Thanks to this project, LibreOffice now supports importing Markdown files and pasting Markdown content into Writer as well as pasting Markdown tables into Calc. The supported dialect is CommonMark with GitHub-style table syntax and the library used is MD4C.

Additionally, Collabora developers added support for exporting to Markdown from Writer.

Learn more about Markdown import in the final report.

New Dialog To Edit Table Styles by Karthik Godha

Mentors: Heiko Tietze (TDF), Rafael Lima

LibreOffice does not yet support proper styles for tables, but has a system for applying direct formatting to them. Before Karthik’s work, it was only possible to add new formatting templates, while now existing ones can be edited as well. At the time of writing this, the feature has not yet been merged into the code base, but hopefully it will appear in the next weeks.

Learn more about the table styles project in the final report.

Python code auto-completion by Manish Bera

Mentors: Xisco Faulí, Hossein Nourikhah (TDF)

Power users are sure to love the improvements brought to Python support by this project. Now Python IDEs are able to provide auto-completion for LibreOffice UNO API methods and properties, flag type errors and display information about parameters and types.

Learn more about the Python auto-completion project in the final report.

BASIC IDE code auto-completion by Devansh Varshney

Mentors: Jonathan Clark, Hossein Nourikhah (TDF), Rafael Lima

BASIC macro developers are not forgotten: this project implemented an object browser, allowing the macro author to see all the available and used methods and properties, including the whole UNO API. A helpful view for details is shown, reducing the need to dig through the API documentation. After this foundational achievement, the next goal is to add context-aware auto-completion to the BASIC IDE editor.

Learn more about the BASIC auto-completion project in the final report.

Rust UNO Language Binding by Mohamed Ali Mohamed

Mentor: Stephan Bergmann (Collabora)

Rust is a popular type safe programming language, which can now be used to write LibreOffice extensions or do any kind of scripting and processing via the UNO API.

Learn more about the Rust …

Look! Our Nepalese community is preparing a very cool LibreOffice event for early December. More details to come – stay tuned to this blog