The LibreOffice Conference in Budapest in Sept. 25: a central meeting point :: review
The LibreOffice Conference in Budapest in September 25: a central meeting point and driver of development: a review of the key points and impulses
Dear community, ...the LibreOffice Conference in Budapest at the beginning of September was a central meeting point for developers, community activists, translators, QA teams, documentation staff, and advocacy groups. Over 50 talks, workshops, and sessions covered a broad spectrum, including:
- Development, APIs, Extensions, Future Technologies
Quality Assurance (QA)
Localization, Documentation, Native Language Projects
Usability, Design & Accessibility
Open Document Format, Document Liberation, and Interoperability
Advocacy, Marketing & Community Building
...see also the extensions section below - and the detailed links for even more!
Key Innovations & Trends and Developments:
LibreOffice 25.8 ? Performance & Compatibility: Released shortly before the conference, version 25.8 focuses heavily on speed, stability, and compatibility. Writing and spreadsheet modules open files up to 30% faster, especially for files with many graphical objects and large XLSX documents.
Here are some of the most notable topics and trends emerging from the conference and current developments:
The LibreOffice Conference 2025 in Budapest demonstrated that LibreOffice is on the move ? in many dimensions at once. Version 25.8 brings noticeable improvements in speed, compatibility, and usability. With new Calc functions, improved Microsoft format import, support for PDF 2.0, and more sophisticated UI options, the Office suite becomes more powerful and accessible.
For the community and open source, this means closer proximity to users, more standards, more integration ? and a clear path toward performance and accessibility. Particularly exciting are the impulses from the areas of interoperability and automation ? for example, through ScriptForge ? as well as the indications that older operating systems and 32-bit versions will soon often no longer be supported.:: see also the enhancements below ? and the detailed links for even more!
In short: A solid release that doesn't feature any major changes, but improves many details ? and thus further strengthens the LibreOffice community project.
The meeting in Budapest - the significance for the community & outlook
....I think such meetings are very important ? in my opinion, they are drivers of development ? and act as catalysts: They connect technical developers with users, translators, QA, and user organizations. This generates momentum that flows into features, bug fixes, localization, and documentation.
Development is increasingly moving toward improving not only feature richness, but also user experience, accessibility, and performance on older or less resource-intensive systems. For organizations and administrations, compatibility with proprietary formats and open standards will continue to be a major lever ? not only to reduce exchange problems, but also to ensure digital sovereignty. If we look at Schleswig-Holstein, we see this topic and these aspects already present there ? these aspects are also very important there.
Further information - background and details:
shedule: https://events.documentfoundation.or...025/schedule/#
sessions: https://events.documentfoundation.or...ce-2025/talk/#
speakers: https://events.documentfoundation.or...-2025/speaker/
