General Activities LibreOffice 25.2.4 was announced on June 6 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help for compact layout Pivot Tables, Writer table formula MOD and improved the help for Writer’s Send menu commands, font colour, text attributes for drawing objects, Calc shortcut keys, Calc’s LOOKUP function, Of-Pie charts and file conversion filters Pierre F. added help for Writer table formula INT Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) simplified code for VCL settings and did many other code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued polishing support for embedded fonts in PowerPoint files Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) improved the import of ref fields in DOCX files Parth Raiyani (Collabora) makde it so the Layouts panel in Impress Sidebar now uses a native IconView widget instead of the ValueSet widget Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed a Writer list indent removal issue, implemented RTF export of section breaks right sections, fixed an issue with images inside shapes being sized incorrectly in RTF files and continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other Xisco Faulí (TDF) implemented Writer table formula MOD, added support for transparent fill colour in SVGs, removed the Euro converter wizard, added several new automated
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LibreOffice 25.8 Beta1 is available for testing
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha1, 782 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 154 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 25.8 Beta1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version. 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!!
QA/Dev Report: May 2025
General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.7 was announced on May 8 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help page for Page Layout, expanded help for paragraph justification, updated menu paths in Help, added help pages for newly-added Calc functions and of-pie charts, updated help for Business cards and Labels, improved extended tooltips and error messages for Manage Names dialog, corrected an example spreadsheet used for Calc Data Statistics help and improved help for IsNull BASIC function among many other Help cleanups and updates Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued polishing support for embedded fonts in PowerPoint files and fixed unexpected changing of background images upon saving and reloading in Draw Darshan Upadhyay, Szymon Kłos, Michael Meeks and Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Szymon also implemented saving checkbox state to XLSX files Gökay Şatır (Collabora) fixed an issue in Draw with connector text disappearing when “Adjust to contour” option was active Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) added a feature to select colour palettes for chart data series Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) fixed an issue with unwanted expansion of reference mark fields after insertion and typing Miklós Vajna (Collabora) continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend
LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha1 is available for testing
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024. Since then, 3918 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 533 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version. 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!!