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Dear Europe: Germany has shown the way forward, by making the Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory within its sovereign digital infrastructure. Now it's time for other countries to do the same! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/23/dear-europe/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware #openstandards

MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026, organised by Debian India, was held on 14 – 15 March – and The Document Foundation was happy to sponsor it! The event featured a wide variety of talks on Debian (of course), #LibreOffice, OpenStreetMap and other free and open source software projects: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/23/libreoffice-at-minidebconf-kanpur-2026/

Here's more information on Germany using the Open Document Format (ODF) in its "Deutschland-Stack", rather than Microsoft's file formats: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/20/big-news-germany-has-just-made-odf-mandatory/

Huge win for open standards and freedom from vendor lock-in! Germany’s Sovereign Digital Stack mandates ODF, the Open Document Format: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/19/germanys-sovereign-digital-stack-mandates-odf/

No software is complete without good documentation – and our community is working hard to provide just that. Now the Turkish guides are on the #LibreOffice Bookshelf: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/16/the-turkish-documentation-community-joins-libreoffice-bookshelf/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Join us at the #LibreOffice Conference 2026, which will take place in Pordenone, northern Italy, from 10 – 12 September! The Call for Papers is now open: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/11/libocon-2026-call-for-papers/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

@fenixmaster@mastodon.social We're not.

In February, the #LibreOffice community worked on improvements to Writer and Calc table styles, along with other optimisations and fixes: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/03/10/qa-dev-report-february-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

A big win for ODF, the EU Commission DG CONNECT has added the ODS template to the CRA Guidance feedback process, reacting promptly in a positive way to our request. Kudos to DG CONNECT.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/10/important-odf-template-added-to-cra-guidance-feedback/

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LibreOffice will be at the MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026 – being organised by Debian India – this weekend! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/09/libreoffice-at-minidebconf-kanpur-india-2026/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

New in #LibreOffice 26.2: Writer now supports Start and End paragraph alignment. These options align paragraphs relative to the paragraph text direction, and can simplify reusing styles across languages and writing systems. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2#Writer

ODF is just the first of the advantages of LibreOffice

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/27/odf-is-just-the-first-of-lo-advantages/

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#LibreOffice 26.2.1 is here – the first minor update to our newest stable branch: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/26/tdf-releases-libreoffice-2621/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

New in #LibreOffice 26.2: Writer now displays a more visible grid, and the Snap to Grid functionality now accurately aligns objects with the grid. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2#Writer #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Improvements are coming to LibreOffice's hyperlink dialog box, thanks to Siddhi Salunkhe and the Outreachy programme: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/25/hyperlink-dialog-improvements-from-siddhi-salunkhe/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

We've been on X/Twitter for many years, but it's time to reduce our activity there and instead promote Mastodon as our main social media channel now. So we've done just that: https://x.com/LibreOffice/status/2026204949760131158 – Welcome to all our new followers here 😊

LibreOffice 25.8.5, for Windows, MacOS and Linux, has landed at https://www.libreoffice.org/download.

English manuals for the LibreOffice 25.8 family can be downloaded from books.libreoffice.org/en/. End users can access technical support via mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice forum: ask.libreoffice.org/.

LibreOffice enterprise and individual users can support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project with a donation at www.libreoffice.org/donate.

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The #LibreOffice community was at FOSDEM 2026, to talk to users, answer questions, and encourage people to join the project. And we had merch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVntb-83BMo

Today we're celebrating "I love Free Software day" – saying thanks to all the contributors who make free and open source software (like LibreOffice) possible: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/14/celebrating-i-love-free-software-day/ #foss #freesoftware

Open Document Format (ODF) is the standard format in #LibreOffice. Now there's version 0.13.0 of the ODF Toolkit – a community-driven, open-source library for creating, scanning, and manipulating ODF files: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/11/odf-toolkit-project-announces-release-0-13-0-last-release-supporting-jdk-11/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

New in #LibreOffice 26.2: When exporting a PDF, you can now choose to remove cross-document links. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2#Core_/_General #foss #openSource #freesoftware

New in #LibreOffice 26.2: When natural sort is enabled in the Sort options dialog, there is an additional option to treat decimal separators as regular characters. This allows sorting IP addresses, for example, even if the locale has a dot as the decimal separator.

LibreOffice is more than just software – it's a worldwide community doing cool things together. Here's what we did in January: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/09/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-january-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

New in #LibreOffice 26.2: Writer now displays a more visible grid, and the "Snap to Grid" feature now more accurately aligns objects with the grid. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2#Writer #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Here's a selection of new features in #LibreOffice 26.2, which we released on Wednesday: https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/pyAi3grZqqrBaN1XWzWrvw #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Big new update to #LibreOffice, the free and private office suite. Version 26.2 is here, with:

📝 Markdown support
📊 Connectors in Calc
🚀 Spreadsheet speedups

...plus many other new features, improvements and fixes. Learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/04/libreoffice-26-2-is-here/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

FOSDEM is the biggest free and open source software (FOSS) event in Europe, and will take place on 31 January and 1 February in Brussels, Belgium. And the #LibreOffice project and community will be there! Meet us and grab cool merchandise: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/22/meet-the-libreoffice-community-at-fosdem-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

In August we had a major update to #LibreOffice. But so much more is happening: conference news, a job opening at @tdforg@fosstodon.org, extension development, ODF backgrounders: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/01/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-august-2025/ #foss #OpenSource

Get cool #LibreOffice merchandise – and support our project and community! We've updated our Spreadshirt shop with new designs, and part of the sales go to @tdforg@fosstodon.org: https://shop.spreadshirt.de/documentfoundation/ #foss #OpenSource

Did you know that @tdforg@fosstodon.org has a Certification Program for #LibreOffice developers? Rafael Lima just joined us – and tells us about his experiences: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/10/31/interview-with-newly-certified-libreoffice-developer-rafael-lima/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Free Software (like #LibreOffice) is about far more than just zero-cost. It’s about the freedom to use, share and modify the software that we all rely on. Make sure that the European Commission doesn't cut funding for Free Software: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/09/13/bring-back-free-software-funding-give-your-feedback-to-the-european-commission/ @fsfe #foss #opensource

Over 19 million views of the #LibreOffice website last year! And actually, that's just for the English-language version. More stats in our Annual Report: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/07/08/websites-and-blogs-tdfs-annual-report-2023/ #foss #OpenSource

New features and improvements coming to #LibreOffice 24.8, our next major release, due in August! 😊 For Writer (our word processor), Calc (spreadsheet), Impress (presentations) and Draw (diagrams and layout). More details at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.8 #foss #opensource #news

Let's make LibreOffice accessible for everyone! Say hello to Michael Weghorn, our new Developer, who'll be focusing on accessibility improvements – like making LibreOffice more usable for people with visual impairments: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/07/04/welcome-michael-weghorn-new-developer-at-tdf/