Free, private, open source office suite by @tdforg and a worldwide community. LibreOffice was based on OpenOffice. #foss #opensource
Open remote profile ↗New in #LibreOffice 26.8: Better accessibility – LibreOffice continues its accessibility work with improvements that make the interface easier to navigate using assistive technologies. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8#Accessibility #foss #opensource #freesoftware
New in #LibreOffice 26.8: More descriptive fields – Displaying field names now includes clearer descriptions for document statistics fields, making complex documents easier to understand. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware
The Politics of Standards
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/16/the-politics-of-standards/
TDF Community BlogThe Politics of Standards - TDF Community BlogStandards are technical documents drafted by engineers and discussed in committees before being implemented in code. However, to discuss them only in technical terms would be to overlook an essential aspect of their nature and function. In fact, standards are also – and above all – political tools because they define market players, determine the direction of development, and establish the interes
New in #LibreOffice 26.8: Mixed page sizes – Impress and Draw can now use different page sizes within the same document – a long-requested feature for more flexible presentations. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware
LibreOffice comes to the rescue of Microsoft Publisher users! LibreOffice Draw is the quickest way to open, view, edit and manage Publisher documents, and although it is not a desktop publishing application, it can be used for small multi-page documents, such as newsletters, or for single-page documents of any format.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/14/libreoffice-come-to-the-rescue-of-microsoft-publisher-users/
TDF Community BlogLibreOffice comes to the rescue of Microsoft Publisher users - TDF Community BlogYesterday, MS Publisher users joined the millions of users who have been abandoned – or forced into a completely unjustified update – by Microsoft over the years, alongside those using Office LTSC 2021 and Office 2021. Consequently, anyone who has purchased a Microsoft 365 subscription will no longer be able to open their PUB files. For millions of schools, parishes, associations, small businesses
New in #LibreOffice 26.8: RTL text detection – LibreOffice Writer now automatically detects paragraph direction when opening or pasting plain right-to-left text. Less manual formatting, smoother editing for Arabic and Hebrew documents. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware
Governments, organisations and companies around the world are moving to #LibreOffice – and to help them, we have Certified Migration Professionals. Here's what we did at a recent workshop in Nairobi, Kenya: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/13/libreoffice-migration-workshop-in-nairobi-kenya/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
TDF Community BlogLibreOffice Migration Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya - TDF Community BlogWhen governments, organisations and companies move to LibreOffice – as we’re seeing in Austria, Germany and other countries – they usually enlist the help of Certified Migration Professionals. Recently in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, we held a LibreOffice Migration Workshop. 40 attendees registered, from the public and private sectors, and the session was conducted pro bono by Lothar Becker
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New in #LibreOffice 26.8: Improved DOCX comments – Deleted comment ranges in Microsoft Word documents are now imported and exported more accurately, further improving DOCX compatibility. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware
LibreOffice Conference 2026 group photo – and final video updates: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/11/libreoffice-conference-2026-group-photo-and-final-video-updates/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
TDF Community BlogLibreOffice Conference 2026 group photo – and final video updates - TDF Community BlogLast month we had the LibreOffice Conference 2026 in Pordenone, northern Italy. Huge thanks to the organisers for such a great event! At lunchtime on the final day we took a group photo, which you can see above – but of course, some people had left by then, so thanks to those people as well for attending 😊 We’ve also finalised the YouTube playlist with 32 talks from the event. For a few talks whic
@RadicalEcologist You can see the list of fixed bugs here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/26.8.1/RC1
LibreOffice 26.8.1 is now available, at last
Today, at last, LibreOffice 26.8.1 is available for download. All links have been checked at least three times to prevent the same problems from recurring. The download link remains the same: https://www.libreoffice.org/download
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/08/lo-26-8-1-available-at-last/
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Stats time! #LibreOffice code contributors, translators, downloads and more – see the State of the Project, October 2025 – September 2026: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/07/state-of-the-project-oct-25-sept-26/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
TDF Community BlogState of the Project (October 2025 - September 2026) - TDF Community BlogWe are releasing the State of the Project Slide Deck, which is updated quarterly and based on data extracted from the LibreOffice dashboard and the Matomo repository between 1 October 2025 and 30 September 2026. Over the course of 12 months, 297 developers worked on the source code, making a total of 11,676 new commits (Git). Of these, 2,596 (22%) were provided by 228 volunteer developers (77%), 4