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The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8 (blog.documentfoundation.org)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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 🙏 🙏🙏.

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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...

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago

That looks great

[–] iawia@feddit.nl 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

The ribbon UI sure is shit.

LO has a command palette which is handy when looking for obscure functions. Shift esc.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

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

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like the 1998 version.

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

If it was good enough for my parents, it’s good enough for me!

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

It has a proper dark mode now. Also there's different icon themes, I like the Breezy theme. Makes it look early 2010s

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you prefer something Microsoft has cooked up recently?

[–] null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the only 2 design options. 1998 or Microsoft.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean… Corel still looks the same too…

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Looks like 98 SE now!

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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