Can't open and save password protected Writer files after upgrade to LibreOffice 25.8.1

Stefan2 · 2025-10-12T16:37:20+0100

The quarterly update upgraded LibreOffice to version 25.8.1 (I'm using the binary package).

In version 25.8.1 I can't open password protected writer files anymore. LibreOffice crashes with a coredump.

The same happens when I try to save a new Writer file with a password.

I had to activate my old boot environment with LibreOffice 25.2.4.3, open the password protected files
and save them without a password. Very annoying ...

Does anyone expierence the same issue?

I searched the web but didn't find a bug report for LibreOffice 25.8.1.

Is this a FreeBSD compile bug?

Best regards
Stefan

fmc000 · 2025-10-12T17:10:55+0100

There's a bug open for that in the FreeBSD bugzilla I believe. Maybe check that out for more details.

Stefan2 · 2025-10-12T17:21:55+0100

Thanks .. found it :

289266 – editors/libreoffice 25.8.1.1: Saving a document with password encryption is defunct resulting in loss of the document and core dump

bugs.freebsd.org

The binary package is built against qt6 and this seems to be the problem ....

Stefan2 · 2025-10-12T22:17:15+0100

I compiled Libreoffice with gtk-support from ports and now I can open and save files with passwords ...

Can't open and save password protected Writer files after upgrade to LibreOffice 25.8.1

Stefan2

fmc000

Stefan2

289266 – editors/libreoffice 25.8.1.1: Saving a document with password encryption is defunct resulting in loss of the document and core dump

Stefan2