LibreOffice

A selection of new features in LibreOffice 26.8, our latest major release. For all the changes, see: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8

LibreOffice is a free, private and open source office suite. It's backed by a non-profit foundation, and has no built-in AI. Learn more: https://www.libreoffice.org

(Music: Dmitrii Kolesnikov (The_Mountain) from Pixabay)

LibreOffice is the free, private, open source office suite – and successor to OpenOffice. It's made by a worldwide community, and you can be part of it! 😊 Boost your skillset, learn new people, and have fun...

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LibreOffice – the free and private office suite – is zero-cost and open source thanks to your donations. Support our community, and help us to improve the software even further: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

A look at some of the new features in LibreOffice 26.2, the free and private office suite, created by our community of volunteers and certified developers.

Learn more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2

Music: Fresh Focus by Kevin MacLeod

Mike Saunders talks to Jonathan Clark, who is working on improving LibreOffice's language support, especially in terms of right-to-left (RTL) and complex text layout (CTL) scripts.

Learn more: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/10/29/interview-jonathan-clark/

Mike Saunders talks to Michael Weghorn, who is working on improving accessibility in LibreOffice. What does "accessible" actually mean? In what ways does software need to be accessible? And how can users help out? We discuss these topics – and more. (Sorry for the lack of live video in the first 10 minutes!)

Wiki page for accessibility, with further links: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Accessibility

Accessibility mailing list: [email protected] – Instructions how to subscribe and mailing list archives can be found here: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists

Accessibility-related tickets in Bugzilla are organized in two ways:

Via accessibility meta bugs – link for currently open tickets in that accessibility meta bug hierarchy: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=101912&hide_resolved=1

Via an "accessibility" keyword – current list of open tickets that have that keyword set: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=accessibility%2C &keywords_type=allwords&list_id=1893200&query_format=advanced&resolution=---

A quick look back at the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2025, which took place in Budapest from 4 - 5 September.

LibreOffice is a free and private office suite, the successor project to OpenOffice.

More information: https://conference.libreoffice.org/2025/

A look at some of the new features in LibreOffice 25.8, the free and private office suite, created by our community of volunteers and certified developers.

Learn more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8

Music: Fresh Focus by Kevin MacLeod

Mike Saunders talks to Olivier Hallot, who coordinates LibreOffice's Documentation team. What makes good documentation? Why is it important? And what does the future hold? We discuss these topics – and more.

Documentation project website: https://documentation.libreoffice.org

LibreOffice is a free, open source and powerful office suite for Linux, Windows and macOS. Download it now from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ – in this video, we show you how.

After you have downloaded, see the installation guides: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/install-howto/

LibreOffice was originally based on OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice).

Music: The Lounge, from http://www.bensound.com