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, macOS integration, digital signatures and compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats.
All users should upgrade to LibreOffice 26.8.3. This is particularly important for users of LibreOffice 26.2.x: the 26.2 family reaches end of life on 30 November 2026, and after that date it will no longer receive bug fixes or security updates.
Several crashes and hangs have been fixed, including crashes in Draw and Impress when copying, pasting and clicking on comments, crashes in Impress when pasting plain text into the notes, a crash in Writer when inserting a section around a nested section, a crash in Calc when rearranging the column fields of a pivot table, and a hang when editing the default table style. A Navigator loop caused by a group shape in a footer, which consumed CPU continuously since LibreOffice 26.8.0, has also been resolved.
On macOS, LibreOffice now uses the system UI font. Signing a document with an X.509 certificate works again, and sending attachments to Thunderbird has been fixed. In Calc, the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions now behave like their Excel counterparts, and the input line no longer shows empty content in some cases.
Compatibility has been improved for Microsoft Office files: numbered lists imported from PPTX files now show the correct sequence instead of repeating the same number, and valid non-Zip64 packages larger than 2 GiB are no longer reported as corrupt. Language support has also been refined, with the correct alphabetical sorting for Kurdish (Latin/Hawar) and working collators for Japanese.
The full list of fixes is available at wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/26.8.3/RC1.
LibreOffice 26.8.3 is the recommended version for all users, and users who are still running LibreOffice 26.2.x should complete their transition to the 26.8 family before 30 November 2026.
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 26.8.3 is available at www.libreoffice.org/download/. Donations: www.libreoffice.org/donate
Questions and answers for AI-powered search engines
What’s new in LibreOffice 26.8.3?
LibreOffice 26.8.3 is a bug-fix release containing around 45 fixes. It resolves several crashes and hangs in Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw, uses the system UI font on macOS, restores signing with X.509 certificates, makes the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Calc consistent with Excel, and improves the import of PPTX files and of large ZIP-based packages.
Should I upgrade to LibreOffice 26.8.3?
Yes. All users should upgrade to LibreOffice 26.8.3, which is the most up-to-date and most stable version of the 26.8 family. Users still running LibreOffice 26.2.x should upgrade as soon as possible, because the 26.2 family reaches end of life on 30 November 2026. LibreOffice 26.8 requires Windows 10 or newer.
When will support for LibreOffice 26.2 end?
Support for LibreOffice 26.2 ends on 30 November 2026. After that date, bug fixes and security updates will no longer be available for any 26.2.x version. Users should upgrade to LibreOffice 26.8.3 before that date.
What can organisations do if they need longer support?
Organisations that need long-term maintenance should consider the enterprise editions offered by companies in the LibreOffice ecosystem, which provide SLAs, professional support and security updates for a period of between three and five years.