Millions of students are getting locked into closed, proprietary software from Big Tech vendors. Here's how LibreOffice can give them back their digital sovereignty: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03...
LibreOffice is only possible thanks to your donations! Here's how they helped us in 2025 – and if you want to support our project and community, please see www.libreoffice.org/donate/ – Thank you 😊
Be careful! OpenOffice has years-old, unfixed security issues and is strongly not recommended for production use: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_... – Far safer to use one of the actively maintained successor projects, still free and open source (such as LibreOffice).
The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03...
Yes, OpenOffice is barely maintained. Since 2010, the actively developed successor project – with massive improvements to .docx compatibility – has been LibreOffice. It's still free and open source, but with vital fixes and a ton of new features.
Going to OpenOffice is risky – it's barely developed, and has years-old, unfixed security issues: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_... – For the last decade, virtually all development has been in LibreOffice, the actively developed successor project.
New in #LibreOffice 26.2: Writer now supports Start and End paragraph alignment. These options align paragraphs relative to the paragraph text direction, and can simplify reusing styles across languages and writing systems. wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes...
Try asking the community at ask.libreoffice.org – Maybe someone there has some ideas...
#LibreOffice 26.2.1 is here – the first minor update to our newest stable branch: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02... #foss #opensource #freesoftware
OpenOffice has years-old, unfixed security issues and is not recommended for production use: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_... – But there are fixed and more actively developed successor projects, still free and open source (such as LibreOffice).
They're not switching to OpenOffice. It's barely been developed for the last decade, and has unfixed security issues: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_... – They are switching to LibreOffice, which is the actively maintained successor project to OpenOffice.
New in #LibreOffice 26.2: Writer now displays a more visible grid, and the Snap to Grid functionality now accurately aligns objects with the grid. wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes...
Hi! You didn't say anything about your setup, but assuming you're on Windows, it's part of the auto-updater (which is based on technology from Mozilla).
Improvements are coming to LibreOffice's hyperlink dialog box, thanks to Siddhi Salunkhe and the Outreachy programme: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02...
We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02...
LibreOffice will be taking part in the Google Summer of Code 2026: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02...
LibreOffice Named a 2026 “Best Value” Leader by Capterra
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The #LibreOffice community was at FOSDEM 2026, to talk to users, answer questions, and encourage people to join the project. And we had merch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVnt...
17 February 2026 marks the 14th anniversary of The Document Foundation’s recognition as a non-profit organisation under German law. Today, we celebrate this important milestone and prepare for further growth.
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Today we're celebrating "I love Free Software day" – saying thanks to all the contributors who make free and open source software (like LibreOffice) possible: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02...
We hope you're enjoying the new features in #LibreOffice 26.2! Here's a look behind-the-scenes at what the developer and QA community did in January: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/02/11/q...
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Open Document Format (ODF) is the standard format in #LibreOffice. Now there's version 0.13.0 of the ODF Toolkit – a community-driven, open-source library for creating, scanning, and manipulating ODF files: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02...
New in #LibreOffice 26.2: When exporting a PDF, you can now choose to remove cross-document links. wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes...
That's very risky! OpenOffice has unfixed security issues and high risk status from Apache: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_... – It's barely maintained now. There are far more actively maintained and developed successor projects, still free and open source, but with vital fixes (such as LibreOffice).
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New in #LibreOffice 26.2: When natural sort is enabled in the Sort options dialog, there is an additional option to treat decimal separators as regular characters. This allows sorting IP addresses, for example, even if the locale has a dot as the decimal separator.
LibreOffice is more than just software – it's a worldwide community doing cool things together. Here's what we did in January: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02...
New in #LibreOffice 26.2: Writer now displays a more visible grid, and the "Snap to Grid" feature now more accurately aligns objects with the grid. wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes...
This video is also available on PeerTube: peertube.opencloud.lu/w/pyAi3grZqq...
