Bug 170180 - Release notes website not working
Summary: Release notes website not working
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/R...
Whiteboard: Infrastructure
Keywords: topicInfra
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-12-31 06:49 UTC by Paul K.
Modified: 2026-01-02 14:59 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Screenshot (123.06 KB, image/png)
2026-01-01 01:02 UTC, m_a_riosv
Details
following the URI from Help -> About does open Release notes (186.96 KB, image/png)
2026-01-01 12:31 UTC, V Stuart Foote
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Description Paul K. 2025-12-31 06:49:01 UTC
Description:
I try launching release notes from the Libre Office desktop app
I also try from the Libre Office site url:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/

In both cases it takes me to url:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8

At this url it displays the following:

403 Forbidden
nginx/1.22.1


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  See Description
2.
3.

Actual Results:
See Description

Expected Results:
I expect to get the Release notes


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Display the Release notes!
Comment 1 Werner Tietz 2025-12-31 15:43:52 UTC
confirmed
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2026-01-01 01:02:05 UTC
Created attachment 204884 [details]
Screenshot

Works for me with
Version: 26.2.0.0.beta1 (X86_64)
Build ID: 620(Build:0)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 3 V Stuart Foote 2026-01-01 12:30:34 UTC
Seems transient. URIs linked (in URL field above, or from Help -> About) work without issue.

=-testing-=

Version: 25.8.4.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 290daaa01b999472f0c7a3890eb6a550fd74c6df
CPU threads: 28; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 4 V Stuart Foote 2026-01-01 12:31:08 UTC
Created attachment 204889 [details]
following the URI from Help -> About does open Release notes
Comment 5 Werner Tietz 2026-01-01 15:21:30 UTC
reopened because the url: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8 resolves to 
```
403 Forbidden
nginx/1.22.1
```
Comment 6 V Stuart Foote 2026-01-02 12:00:25 UTC
Sorry, guess this should be => NEW

But just verified I can not confirm as the link URIs to the published Wiki "ReleaseNotes" function without issue from Help -> About on Win11 installations of 25.8 and 26.2 and for master against 26.8.

And likewise the links published on the project downloads pages with a Chrome, a Firefox and a Brave browser session.
Comment 7 Werner Tietz 2026-01-02 13:40:49 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #6)
> Sorry, guess this should be => NEW
> 
> But just verified I can not confirm as the link URIs to the published Wiki
> "ReleaseNotes" function without issue from Help -> About on Win11
> installations of 25.8 and 26.2 and for master against 26.8.
> 
> And likewise the links published on the project downloads pages with a
> Chrome, a Firefox and a Brave browser session.

Looks NOT like an issue with specific LO-version, OS or browser ?!

IMHO this is some missconfigured Web-server|Infrastructure!
Comment 8 Ming Hua 2026-01-02 14:59:51 UTC
I live in Beijing, PR China and my access to the wiki.documentfoundation.org website had been spotty for the last few months. I can't open the release notes webpage today.

I agree it's a infrastructure issue, my suspision is that the server/Internet provider is blocking access from some countries.