LibreOffice 25.2 update officially released; Includes various user interface and accessibility improvements

LibreOffice, another alternative to Microsoft Office Suite, is said to be the best office suite for users who want to retain control over their individual software and documents. It offers programs like Writer, Calc, and more. LibreOffice office suite is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux as well as mobile (Android and iOS).

LibreOffice has now received a major 25.2 update for Windows (Intel, AMD, and ARM), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), and Linux.

New big update! #LibreOffice 25.2 is here, with:

➡️ Better change tracking
➡️ More versatile comments
➡️ Extra theme support

…plus compatibility improvements, extra privacy options, and more: https://t.co/wlZl3zsXNC pic.twitter.com/clWr12aFj4

— LibreOffice (@LibreOffice) February 6, 2025

LibreOffice 25.2 Changelog

PRIVACY

• LibreOffice can remove all personal information associated with any document (author names and timestamps, editing time, printer name and configuration, document template, author and date for comments, and tracked changes).

CORE/GENERAL

• LibreOffice 25.2 can read and write ODF version 1.4.
• Many interoperability improvements with proprietary OOXML documents.
• It is now possible to automatically sign documents after defining a default certificate.
• Windows 7 and 8/8.1 are deprecated platforms, and support will be removed in version 25.8.
• Extensions and features relying on Python will not work on Windows 7.

WRITER

• Improvements to Track Changes management, to manage a large number of changes in long documents.
• Comments are now tracked in the Navigator when you move the focus into comments while resizing the area containing comments now shows a visual guide.
• Added options to set a default zoom level for opening documents, overriding the level stored in documents.
• It is now possible to delete all content of a content type (excluding headings) via the Navigator.

CALC

• Addition of a “Handle Duplicate Records” dialog to select/remove duplicate records in Calc.
• Both the Function Wizard dialog and Functions Sidebar deck received improvements to searching and user experience.
• Solver models can be saved into spreadsheets and Solver is able to provide a sensitivity analysis report.
• Addition of new sheet protection options related to Pivot Tables, Pivot Charts, and AutoFilters.

IMPRESS & DRAW

• Many improvements to all Impress templates, which now have visible elements (font colour set to black) in Master Notes and Handout.
• Objects can be centred on the Impress slide (or Draw page) in one single step.
• Automatic repeating of slides can now be activated in windowed mode.
• Overflowing text in presenter notes is no longer cut off when printing.

USER INTERFACE

• The list of recently used files has now a checkbox “[x] Current Module Only” that allows filtering the list.
• Object boundaries are now toggled independently of Formatting Marks.
• The colour of non-printing characters and the background colour of comments can be customised.
• Default items for unordered lists (also known as bullets) have been updated.
• Significant improvements to application themes.

ACCESSIBILITY

• Improved warning and error levels in the Accessibility Sidebar, with the option to ignore warnings.
• User interface elements report an accessible identifier that can be used by assistive technologies.
• Windows: accessibility gets enabled whenever a tool queries information on the accessibility level, and accessible relations are correctly reported.
• Linux: positions of UI elements (including on Wayland) are correctly reported on the accessibility level.

SCRIPTFORGE LIBRARIES

• An extensible and robust collection of macro scripting resources to be invoked from user Basic or Python scripts.
• The whole set of services (except when the native built-in function is better) is made available for Python scripts with identical syntax and behavior as in Basic.
• The English documentation of ScriptForge libraries is now partially integrated into the LibreOffice help pages.

LibreOffice 25.2 is available at www.libreoffice.org/download/. Minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Apple MacOS 10.15. For users who don’t need the latest features and prefer a version that has undergone more testing and bug fixing, The Document Foundation still maintains the LibreOffice 24.8 family, which includes several months of back-ported fixes. The current release is LibreOffice 24.8.4.

LibreOffice has also revealed the contributors of the LinreOffice 25.2 update via a pie chart.