A recap of the #LibreOffice Conference 2026, which took place in September in Pordenone, northern Italy. Thanks to the local team for organising the event! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-AZY8H5mn4 #foss #opensource #freesoftware
8 weeks, 9.4 million downloads
The announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 had a noticeable positive effect on download figures, which have since exceeded one million per week, totalling 9.4 million downloads over eight weeks, from 24 August to 18 October.
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Did you know? #LibreOffice has a tabbed user interface option. Here's how to enable it:
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/
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/
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
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
The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind #LibreOffice, now has its own visual identity: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/09/tdf-visual-identity/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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
Lots of improvements coming to #LibreOffice: clearer font substitution, a button in Calc to list sheets, better hyphenation support, and more. See our QA and dev summary for September: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/10/06/qa-dev-report-september-2026/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
Why did #LibreOffice 26.8 get over 4 million downloads in September? We answered this question, and more, in our talk at the recent LinuxDays event in Prague: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHqUdrsEYgE #foss #openSource #freesoftware
For Adlair Cerecedo-Méndez, his work with #LibreOffice began as a response to a specific need: helping the Mexican government obtain an office suite tailored to public institutions: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/05/community-member-monday-adlair-cerecedo-mendez/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
In September we had new releases of #LibreOffice, updates from events, and said hello to new team members working on QA and online: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/01/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-september-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
New in #LibreOffice 26.8: Better frame typography – Page line spacing now works correctly inside Writer frames, keeping text aligned to the document's baseline grid. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware