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The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8 (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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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
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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 4 points 10 hours ago

No, not that one. But I guess there are multiple angles, dark mode overall has been pretty rough.

The one that gets in my way the most is their already spotty xlsx conversion seems to parse Office's default font color as black instead of automatic, which means when you open Excel docs on LibreOffice you get black text on black background by default.

You can just select all and manually change the text color, but it's a pain, and on spreadsheets you have to do it on each spreadsheet page. From what I've seen there have been bugs opened and reclosed with "you should set the text to automatic", which is engineer excuses for what is obviously a genuine issue with the defaults of document conversion, as far as I can tell.