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The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8 (blog.documentfoundation.org)
submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8.

LibreOffice is a powerful, free and open source office suite for Linux, MacOS and Microsoft Windows.

No advertising. No data tracking. No subscriptions.

LibreOffice is used by individuals, businesses, schools, hospitals and cities around the world.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/20/libreoffice-25-8/

New improvements

Highlights of LibreOffice 25.8 include:

  • Up to 30% faster opening of files in Writer and Calc
  • Support for exporting PDF 2.0
  • Improved user interface: the Welcome/What’s New dialog now offers access to the user interface picker and appearance options
  • Optimized memory management for smoother operation on virtual desktops
  • Improved scrolling through large documents
  • New viewer mode to open all files in read-only mode.
  • Overhauled word hyphenation and spacing
  • New financial functions in Calc
  • Significantly better display of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean DOC/DOCX documents
  • Spell check dictionaries updates for Danish, English, Hindi, Mongolian, Spanish, Thai, and Ukrainian.

The Document Foundation

The Document Foundation is a German non-profit organization.

We believe that Free Software can provide better privacy, quality, reliability, and greater flexibility than corporate alternatives.

Helping

LibreOffice is developed by hundreds of volunteers around the world.

Join us today and help us to make it even better ❤️

👉 https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/

Thank you to the developers, designers, translators, donors and supporters 🙏 🙏🙏.

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 30 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

Does it still look like it's from 1998?

It works very well for my light personal needs, but I find the UI to be an eyesore...

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 30 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

There's an optional "tabbed interface" in View > User Interface that's a lot like the Office ribbon. Like the Office ribbon, it has context-sensitive additional tabs, and you can enable a compact version that shows less but takes up less vertical space.

I've not had a need for LibreOffice for a while, but it certainly looks a lot less cluttered than the default old-school toolbars.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 9 hours ago

That looks great

[–] iawia@feddit.nl 36 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

To be fair, they've had the option to switch to that unusable ribbon thing Microsoft switched to for a while now.

Thankfully, it's not the default.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

The ribbon UI sure is shit.

LO has a command palette which is handy when looking for obscure functions. Shift esc.

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I like the 1998 version.

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

If it was good enough for my parents, it’s good enough for me!

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago

It has a proper dark mode now. Also there's different icon themes, I like the Breezy theme. Makes it look early 2010s

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 19 points 20 hours ago

The notes include "improved user interface", so I'm sure whatever issues you have had for years are fixed by that 😅

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Would you prefer something Microsoft has cooked up recently?

[–] null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the only 2 design options. 1998 or Microsoft.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I mean… Corel still looks the same too…

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 6 points 20 hours ago

Looks like 98 SE now!