Berlin, [DATE] 2026 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice
26.8.1, the first minor release in the LibreOffice 26.8 family,
available for Windows, macOS and Linux. The new version contains around
40 bug fixes, focusing on documents from other file formats.
Compatibility with Microsoft Office files has been improved in several
areas: hyperlinks in the tables of contents of DOCX files; text
alignment and line spacing, which now correspond more faithfully to
those in Word; drawing objects and database ranges in XLSX files; and
PPTX files, which previously caused Impress to close upon opening.
The import of text and CSV files is more reliable with various character
encodings, including UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, Chinese and Japanese, and
underlines the strong focus on writing systems that characterises
LibreOffice 26.8.
The full list of fixes is available at
wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/26.8.1/RC1.
LibreOffice 26.8.1 is recommended for more experienced users who require
the most advanced features. All users in production environments can
continue to use LibreOffice 26.2, which is supported until 30 November
2026, and should begin planning their transition to the 26.8 family over
the next two months.
Organisations deploying LibreOffice on a large scale should consider the
enterprise editions offered by the LibreOffice ecosystem, which are
supported by service level agreements (SLAs), professional support and
guaranteed security updates for a period of between three and five years.
LibreOffice 26.8.1 is available at www.libreoffice.org/download/.
Donations: www.libreoffice.org/donate
Blog Post:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/02/libreoffice-26-8-1/
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