LibreOffice releases, features, QA and accessibility – TDF Annual Report 2025 - TDF Community Blog

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… Releases of the Year LibreOffice’s release plan works on a time-based release schedule, with major updates every six months (typically in February and August). So in other words, there are two new versions of LibreOffice per year. Many other FOSS projects adopt a similar time-based approach, and since 2024, LibreOffice has used a “year.month” versioning scheme – so LibreOffice 25.2, for instance, was released in the second month (February) of 2025. This versioning scheme helps users to see how old (or new) their currently installed version of LibreOffice is. In addition to the major upgrades, there were monthly smaller “point” releases, mainly fixing bugs, compatibility issues and security vulnerabilities. Major Feature Highlights LibreOffice 25.2 was released on February 6. It introduced the ability to read and write ODF version 1.4, alongside numerous interoperability improvements with proprietary OOXML documents. It became possible to automatically sign documents after defining a default certificate. Additionally, Windows 7 and 8/8.1 were designated as deprecated platforms, with support scheduled to be removed in version 25.8, and extensions and features relying

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