Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8. This latest version of the market-leading free open source office suite maintains its focus on digital sovereignty and privacy protection. It offers individuals, organisations, and governments total control over their data and the most comprehensive productivity tools.

In a global context of growing concern about data privacy, cloud lock-in, and surveillance capitalism, LibreOffice 25.8 provides concrete solutions.

Open Source: The source code is available for inspection and is completely free from proprietary technology constraints.

Privacy and Control: LibreOffice does not collect personal data, usage metrics or diagnostic information, and complies with the data protection regulations required by public administration implementations (GDPR).

Local Execution: all features are executed locally on the user’s computer, without the need for an internet or cloud connection.

Self-Hosted Collaboration: Integration with on-premises cloud solutions, such as Nextcloud, enables teams to collaborate without sharing information with Big Tech.

LibreOffice 25.8: new performance and features

User Interface: the Welcome/What’s New dialog now offers access to the user interface picker and appearance options, allowing new users to leverage LibreOffice’s flexible UI and personalise the look and feel according to their preferences.

Performance: everything is faster, from startup to scrolling through large documents – with significant speed improvements on less powerful machines.

• In benchmark tests, Writer and Calc open files up to 30% faster.
• Optimised memory management allows for smoother operation on virtual desktops and thin clients.

Better Interoperability with Microsoft Office files, with more accurate handling of DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files and fewer formatting issues, thanks to changes such as:

• a complete overhaul of word hyphenation and spacing
• font management in Impress that is compatible with PowerPoint files
• the addition of new functions in Calc: CHOOSECOLS, CHOOSEROWS, DROP, EXPAND, HSTACK, TAKE, TEXTAFTER, TEXTBEFORE, TEXTSPLIT, TOCOL, TOROW, VSTACK, WRAPCOLS and WRAPROWS.

There are, of course, other important new features, such as the ability to export to the PDF 2.0 format, and several new ScriptForge library services. The complete list is available here: wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8.

In terms of operating system support changes, LibreOffice 25.8 will no longer run on Windows 7, 8/8.1 or x86 (32-bit) versions. It is also the last version to run on macOS 10.15.

LibreOffice 25.8 for Businesses

The Document Foundation collaborates with a global network of certified partners who offer enterprise-grade support and maintenance, customised features and integrations, and assistance with user migration and training. A full list of partners can be found here: www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/.