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The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8. This latest version of the market-leading free open source office suite maintains its focus on digital sovereignty and privacy protection. It offers individuals, […]

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 🙏 🙏🙏.

  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    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…

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Office apps looked like that in 1998 because it was an interface that worked. It never should have changed.

    • egrets@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • iawia@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • psycotica0@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

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