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Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.1
Quoting: Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.1 - The Document Foundation Blog —
LibreOffice 25.8.1, the first minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available at https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
The release includes close to 100 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 25.8 [1] to improve the stability and robustness of the software. In particular, the release resolves the application crash issue related to the NoteBookBar UI option, and several bugs related to opening documents in Microsoft proprietary format.
LibreOffice is the only office suite with a feature set comparable to the market leader. It also offers a range of interface options to suit all user habits, from traditional to modern, and makes the most of different screen form factors by optimising the space available on the desktop to put the maximum number of features just a click or two away.
For users who don’t need the latest features and prefer a version that has undergone more testing and bug fixing, The Document Foundation maintains the LibreOffice 25.2 family, which includes several months of back-ported fixes. The current release is LibreOffice 25.2.5.
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LibreOffice 25.8.1 Update Delivers Almost 100 Bug Fixes - OMG! Ubuntu
LibreOffice 25.8.1’s most important fixes center on Microsoft Office’s “proprietary” file formats, like DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX. Per the release notes, some users had hit issues after opening and editing these files in the latest release.
For instance, charts in XLS files often appeared vertically squashed in Calc, Calc failed to recognise cell names for XLSB binary files, and failed to show all sheets in XLSX files which had been modified using exceljs.
In Writer, text justification in DOCX files using Times New Roman was off, floating tables appeared at the top of the next page instead of the bottom of the intended, and image/shape left/right margin (aka text wrap) was incorrect if image was left/right aligned.