LibreOffice is a private, free and open source office suite – the successor project to OpenOffice.
It's compatible with Microsoft Office/365 files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) and is backed by a non-profit organisation.
All users should upgrade, as 26.2 reaches end of life on 30 November Berlin, 12 November 2026 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 26.8.3, the third minor release in the LibreOffice 26.8 family, available for Windows, macOS and Linux. The new version contains around 45 bug fixes, focusing on stability,
Summary The office suite market is large, profitable and growing, and this attracts new entrants: low-cost clones, open-core products and, more recently, suites built largely with artificial intelligence. Most of them compete on price and on native support for OOXML, a format whose evolution remains in practice under Microsoft’s control.
General Activities LibreOffice 26.8.1 and LibreOffice 26.8.2 were announced on October 2 on October 29 respectively Olivier Hallot (TDF) added extended tips to crop image dialog, added initial wiki pages for new Calc functions, added help pages for dynamic arrays in Calc, Like Operator in BASIC, Shuffle command in Calc,
Summary The office suite market is large, profitable and growing, and this attracts new entrants: low-cost clones, open-core products and, more recently, suites built largely with artificial intelligence. Most of them compete on price and on native support for OOXML, a format whose evolution remains in practice under Microsoft’s control.
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