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LibreOffice 26.2.7 is available for download

2026-11-03

Berlin, 3 November 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.7, the seventh maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch. Building on the major feature release published on 4 February 2026, this update delivers targeted bug fixes and stability improvements contributed by a global community of developers and QA engineers.

Among the changes, LibreOffice 26.2.7 fixes a crash on startup on macOS 27, restores audio playback in presentations on Windows, resolves several DOCX round-trip problems, and adds support for Web Query (.iqy) files in Calc. The bundled Python interpreter has been upgraded to version 3.12.16. LibreOffice 26.2 requires Windows 10 or newer.

This is the last release of the LibreOffice 26.2 branch, which will reach the end of its life on 30 November 2026. Users who install this version should plan to update to LibreOffice 26.8 in the coming weeks, by the end of November, following the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8.3.

LibreOffice 26.2.7 is available for immediate download at www.libreoffice.org/download/ for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

List of fixes in RC1: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/26.2.7/RC1. List of fixes in RC2: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/26.2.7/RC2. List of fixes in RC3: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/26.2.7/RC3.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project with a donation at www.libreoffice.org/donate.

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Q: What is LibreOffice 26.2.7?

LibreOffice 26.2.7 is the seventh maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch, released by The Document Foundation on 3 November 2026. It delivers targeted bug fixes and stability improvements over the major feature release published on 4 February 2026.

Q: When was LibreOffice 26.2.7 released?

3 November 2026.

Q: Where can I download LibreOffice 26.2.7?

From https://www.libreoffice.org/download/, for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Q: Which operating systems does LibreOffice 26.2.7 support?

Windows, macOS and Linux. On Windows, LibreOffice 26.2 requires Windows 10 or newer.

Q: What are the main fixes in LibreOffice 26.2.7?

macOS: a crash on startup on macOS 27.0.x, caused by thread IDs larger than UINT32_MAX; a missing check mark in GtkCheckMenuItem; and the non-breaking hyphen (U+2011) failing to render after an update.
Presentations: audio files inserted in a presentation not playing, and audio no longer audible in presentations on Windows.
DOCX interoperability: table of contents hyperlinks that stop working until the table is updated, and documents with data binding in a date picker that cannot be opened in Word after a round trip.
PDF export: named hyperlinks not working when exporting to PDF.
Python: the “PYTHONHOME” error reported after upgrading or when calling LibreOffice, and the upgrade of the bundled Python to 3.12.16.
Calc: support for Web Query (.iqy) files.

Q: What is the next version of LibreOffice after 26.2.7?

This is the last release of the LibreOffice 26.2 branch, which will reach the end of its life on 30 November 2026.

Q: Where can I find the full list of fixes in LibreOffice 26.2.7?

RC1: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/26.2.7/RC1.
RC2: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/26.2.7/RC2.
RC3: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/26.2.7/RC3.

Q: Who develops LibreOffice 26.2.7?

A global community of volunteer and professional developers and QA engineers, coordinated by The Document Foundation, the Berlin-based non-profit behind LibreOffice.

Q: How much does LibreOffice 26.2.7 cost?

Nothing. LibreOffice is free and open source software. Users and advocates can support the project with a donation at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.

LibreOffice 26.8.2 improves stability, multimedia and compatibility

2026-10-29

Berlin, 29 October 2026 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 26.8.2, the second minor release in the LibreOffice 26.8 family, available for Windows, macOS and Linux. The new version contains around 35 bug fixes, focusing on stability, multimedia playback and compatibility with legacy file formats.

Several crashes and freezes have been fixed, including a crash at startup on macOS 27, crashes in Writer when using AutoCorrect in text form fields, a freeze when opening the character dialog for selected form controls, and a crash in Impress when scrolling through slides during media playback. Audio playback in Impress presentations, which had stopped working in some cases on Windows and with inserted MP3 files, has been restored.

Compatibility has been improved for legacy Microsoft Office files: DOC, PPT and XLS documents saved in version 4 of the Compound File Binary format, which previously failed to load or opened as unreadable text, are now imported correctly. Calc adds support for Web Query (.iqy) files and fixes a regression introduced in LibreOffice 26.8.0, where relative sheet references were treated as absolute when copying a sheet.

Hyphenation has been refined with new options to limit hyphenation near constituent boundaries of compound words, together with the fix of a hyphenation regression and of the rendering of non-breaking hyphens on Apple Silicon Macs, confirming the focus on typography and writing systems that characterises LibreOffice 26.8. Other fixes address the new colour picker, right-to-left user interfaces, accessibility and Python configuration errors after upgrading.

The full list of fixes is available at wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/26.8.2/RC2.

LibreOffice 26.8.2 is recommended for users who require the most advanced features. Users in production environments can continue to use LibreOffice 26.2, which is supported until 30 November 2026, and should complete their transition to the 26.8 family in the coming weeks.

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 26.8.2 is available at www.libreoffice.org/download/. Donations: www.libreoffice.org/donate

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What’s new in LibreOffice 26.8.2?

LibreOffice 26.8.2 is a bug-fix release containing around 35 fixes. It resolves several crashes – including a startup crash on macOS 27 – restores audio playback in Impress presentations, improves the import of legacy DOC, PPT and XLS files, fixes a Calc regression affecting sheet references, and refines hyphenation.

Should I upgrade to LibreOffice 26.8.2?

Users running LibreOffice 26.8 should upgrade to version 26.8.2. Users on macOS 27 should upgrade immediately, as earlier 26.8 versions may crash at startup. Users in production environments running LibreOffice 26.2 should plan the upgrade to the 26.8 family before 30 November 2026.

When will support for LibreOffice 26.2 end?

Support for LibreOffice 26.2 will end on 30 November 2026. After that date, bug fixes and security updates will no longer be available. Users should upgrade to the LibreOffice 26.8 family before that date.

FOSDEM: FOSS Office DevRoom Call for Papers

2026-10-262026-10-27

We are inviting proposals for talks about “FOSS Office Software and Suites“.

Office productivity software is one of the oldest and most interesting FOSS categories packed with developer interest. It is also an area where lots of new solutions are arriving with new desktop, web-based and mobile editors, as well as new underlying libraries and filters appearing. These bring lots of opportunities for meeting up and cross-fertilization of ideas, and innovation as well as code sharing between separate FOSS communities and companies that can rarely come together.

The FOSS Office devroom brings these projects together in one place. It is open to developers, contributors, integrators, and users of any FOSS office suite or component. Competing projects and document toolkits are explicitly welcome, as the aim is to provide an overview of the entire sector and identify common problems which cannot be solved alone.

We invite talks on topics such as:

– Architecture, performance, algorithms, data-structures;
– Network protocols for real-time collaboration;
– Import and export filters, interoperability, and document rendering fidelity;
– Accessibility, localisation, typography and support for complex scripts;
– Technical challenges of enterprise Office deployments
– AI-assisted features and how to integrate them while preserving user control and privacy;
– Security, code quality, hardening and sandboxing challenges;

Talks should be technical, and mention bits, bytes, data-structures and algorithms. Product pitches and business presentations will not be accepted in this room. The devroom is co-organised by people from a handful of different FOSS Office projects to ensure a balanced selection of talks. Talks will be 15/20 minutes maximum, to fit as many as possible in the limited time slots.

TALK SUBMISSIONS

To submit a talk, please visit the FOSDEM 2027 Pretalx website: fosdem.org/submit. Please select “FOSS Office” as the *track* and ensure you include all the requested information when submitting a proposal: the title of the talk, a short abstract (one / two paragraphs), and some information about yourself (name, bio and photo). Please do remember that your profile might be already stored in Pretalx.

If you already have a Pretalx account from previous years, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have issues with Pretalx, please contact italo at documentfoundation.org for help.

All presentations will be recorded and streamed. Sending your proposal implies giving permission to be recorded.

For accepted talks, speakers will receive an email to confirm that the proposal has been accepted. They may expect additional emails with more instructions, for instance to confirm their travel schedule.

CONTACTS

Italo Vignoli: italo at documentfoundation dot org
Jos Portvliet: jos dot poortvliet at nextcloud dot com
Michael Meeks: michael dot meeks at collabora dot com

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

Submission Deadline: 30 November 2026 (23:59 UTC)
Acceptance Notifications: 4 December 2026
Final Schedule Announcement: 7 December 2026
Devroom: 30 January 2027 (from 10:30, just half day)

The Document Foundation has its own visual identity

2026-10-092026-10-14

Since its founding in 2010, The Document Foundation has used the LibreOffice logo to represent itself. This was a deliberate choice: a young project needed to concentrate recognition on a single name and a single mark, and LibreOffice was the name people needed to know.

Sixteen years later, the foundation’s work extends well beyond the product. TDF takes part in the development of the Open Document Format (ODF) standard, contributes to policy discussions on interoperability and digital sovereignty, and works with public administrations, standards bodies and other open source organisations. In these contexts, the foundation speaks as an institution, not as a software project, and it needs a signature of its own.

For this reason, we have worked with Ura Design to create a visual identity for The Document Foundation, consisting of a logo, a colour palette and a typeface. The logomark is a stylised page, a reference to the documents and the document standard at the centre of the foundation’s mission. It is shown here in its primary version.

The colour palette is built around the green of the logo, with a neutral scale for text and backgrounds. All the text and background combinations recommended in the guide meet the WCAG 2.1 contrast requirements, so that materials produced with the new identity remain accessible.

The typeface is Inter, designed by Rasmus Andersson and released under the SIL Open Font License. It is used for the wordmark of the logo as well as for all texts, from reports and presentations to the website. A typeface released under a free licence is consistent with the foundation’s mission: anyone can use it, in LibreOffice or in any other application, without restrictions.

Nothing changes for LibreOffice. Its name, logo and visual identity remain exactly as they are. The two identities have different roles: LibreOffice identifies the software, while The Document Foundation identifies the organisation that hosts LibreOffice and its community, and represents them in the wider world.

The logo package is available for download at https://tdf.io/tdflogo. It includes vector (SVG) and raster (PNG) versions of the logo, a favicon, and avatars for social media. The Visual Identity Style Guide explains which version of the logo to use in each context, and sets out the colour palette, the typography and the rules for applying them consistently. Use of the logo is governed by TDF’s trademark policy.

Over the coming months, the new identity will replace the LibreOffice logo on the foundation’s website, social media accounts and institutional documents. Templates for LibreOffice Writer and Impress will also follow. If you maintain pages or materials that refer to The Document Foundation as an organisation, please update them with the new files. Pages that refer to LibreOffice should continue to use the LibreOffice logo.

Questions about the visual identity and its use can be sent to italo@documentfoundation.org

LibreOffice 26.8.1 is now available, at last

2026-10-08

Unfortunately, the release of LibreOffice 26.8.1 has been a bit of a struggle, firstly due to a series of minor issues with the packaging of the Windows version, and then because of a serious malfunction in the server managing the downloads, which forced us to revert to the previous version for a few days.

Today, at last, LibreOffice 26.8.1 is available for download. All links have been checked at least three times to prevent the same problems from recurring. We would like to thank all our most loyal users – those who update LibreOffice immediately after every announcement – for their patience.

And we hope that this completely unexpected malfunction has not put any users off LibreOffice. The download link remains the same: https://www.libreoffice.org/download

LibreOffice 26.8.1 improves compatibility and text import

2026-10-022026-10-08

Berlin, 2 October 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 the Microsoft proprietary OOXML file format.

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.

LibreOffice 26.8.1 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 26.8.1?
LibreOffice 26.8.1 is a bug-fix release containing around 40 fixes. It improves compatibility with Microsoft Office DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files, makes the import of text and CSV files with different character encodings – including UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, Chinese and Japanese – more reliable, and fixes other issues. It does not add any new features to LibreOffice 26.8.

Should I upgrade to LibreOffice 26.8.1?
Users running LibreOffice 26.8 should upgrade to version 26.8.1, which fixes bugs without changing any functionality. Users in production environments running LibreOffice 26.2 can remain on that version for a couple more months. LibreOffice 26.2 will reach the end of its lifecycle on 30 November 2026.

When will support for LibreOffice 26.2 end?
Support for LibreOffice 26.2 will end on 30 November 2026. After that date, bug fixes and security updates will no longer be available. Users should upgrade to the LibreOffice 26.8 family before that date.

Category: Announcements

LibreOffice 26.2.7 is available for download

LibreOffice 26.8.2 improves stability, multimedia and compatibility

FOSDEM: FOSS Office DevRoom Call for Papers

The Document Foundation has its own visual identity

LibreOffice 26.8.1 is now available, at last

LibreOffice 26.8.1 improves compatibility and text import

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