LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 is available for testing

LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) the forth and last pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 25.2 RC1, 104 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 55 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation. In case you find any problem in this pre-release, 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 it! Happy testing!!

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QA/Dev Report: December 2024

General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.4 was announced on December 19 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the warning in Help when JavaScript is not active and did many cleanups in help pages Dione Maddern created a help page for Alignment Sidebar deck Alain Romedenne improved and updated help for ScriptForge libraries Bogdan Buzea improved some UI labels, improved help for superordinate object settings and cached spreadsheet formulas and did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on PDF 2.0 and PDF/A-4 support Miklós Vajna, Rashesh Padia, Attila Szűcs, Bayram Çiçek, Szymon Kłos, Marco Cecchetti, Pranam Lashkari, Hubert Figuière (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Xisco Faulí (TDF) worked on crash report analysis tools, upgraded many dependencies and did many code stability improvements Michael Stahl (allotropia) made style name handling more robust, improved the handling of hidden frames after recent changes and improved the correctness of HTML import regarding formatting Mike Kaganski (Collabora) added an application-wide Viewer mode where all files are opened in read-only state while all editing tools are disabled, dropped all code specific to Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 while also making use of new possibilities such as handling long Windows paths with wildcards, made the Unix document

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LibreOffice 25.2 RC1 is available for testing

LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1, 175 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 76 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 25.2 RC1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation. In case you find any problem in this pre-release, 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 it! Happy testing!!

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