[tdf-announce] Announcement of LibreOffice 25.2.1

Videos describing new features available on YouTube and PeerTube

Berlin, 27 February 2025 - LibreOffice 25.2.1, the first minor release 
of the new LibreOffice 25.2 volunteer-supported office suite for Windows 
(Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux is 
available for download at https://www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. 
LibreOffice is the best office suite for users who want to retain 
control over their individual software and documents, thereby protecting 
their privacy and digital life from the commercial interference and the 
lock-in strategies of Big Tech.

LibreOffice is the only office suite designed to meet the actual needs 
of the user – not just their eyes. It offers a range of interface 
options to suit different user habits, from traditional to modern, and 
makes the most of different screen sizes, optimising the space available 
to put the maximum number of features just a click or two away. It is 
also the only software for creating documents (that may contain personal 
or confidential information) that respects the user's privacy, ensuring 
that the user can decide if and with whom to share the content they 
create, thanks to the standard and open format that is not used as a 
lock-in tool, forcing periodic software updates. All this with a feature 
set that is comparable to the leading software on the market and far 
superior to that of any competitor.

What makes LibreOffice unique is the LibreOffice Technology Platform, 
the only one on the market that allows the consistent development of 
desktop, mobile and cloud versions - including those provided by 
companies in the ecosystem - capable of producing identical and fully 
interoperable documents based on the two available ISO standards: the 
open ODF or Open Document Format (ODT, ODS and ODP) and the proprietary 
Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX). The latter hides a huge number of 
artificial (and unnecessary) lock-in complexities that create problems 
for users convinced they are using a standard format. Products based on 
LibreOffice Technology are available for all major desktop operating 
systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS), mobile platforms (Android 
and iOS) and the cloud.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the 
LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners - 
for desktop, mobile and cloud - with a wide range of dedicated 
value-added features and other benefits such as SLAs and backports of 
security patches for several years: 
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

English manuals for LibreOffice 25.2 Word and Impress can be downloaded 
from https://books.libreoffice.org/en/. End users can get first-level 
technical support from volunteers on the user mailing lists and the Ask 
LibreOffice website: https://ask.libreoffice.org.

Videos describing the new features of the LibreOffice 25.2 family area 
available on PeerTube: 
https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/je9LMg8EbgEiTLsoW6s98K and YouTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGH8MhtbrNU.

Availability of LibreOffice 25.2.1

LibreOffice 25.2.1 is available at 
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Users who don't need the latest 
features and prefer a version that has undergone more testing and bug 
fixing can download LibreOffice 24.8.5, which includes several months of 
back-ported fixes.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can 
support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project with a 
donation at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.

[1] Fixes in RC1: 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/25.2.1/RC1. Fixes in RC2: 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/25.2.1/RC2.

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