General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.4 was announced on December 18 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help page for Markdown in Writer, JSON in Calc, updated or improved help for View and Appearance options, accessibility options, sort criteria in Calc, file conversion filters, ODF versions, handling of empty cells in Calc, Data Provider and CHOOSECOLS and CHOOSEROWS Calc functions Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) fixed exporting pivot tables to XLSX, made autofilter sorting more robust when changing sheet views, created an XPath search helper benefiting automated tests and did many code cleanups Dennis Francis, Szymon Kłos, Jaume Pujantell and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit/jsdialog used by Collabora Online. Szymon also made the style list in Sidebar work the same way as in Notebookbar UIs Miklós Vajna (Collabora) made the handling of “none” numbering types smarter for improved DOCX compatibility and continued polishing the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other Xisco Faulí (TDF) added several automated tests and upgraded many dependencies Michael Stahl (Collabora) fixed building on Windows with address sanitizer Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made it so cycling through references in Calc also works for multiline formulas, fixed a Writer footnote numbering issue, fixed DeepL translation issues and did many code