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LibreOffice 26.2.1 Open-Source Office Suite Released with 65 Bug Fixes
LibreOffice 26.2.1 is packed with bug fixes for various issues, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users since the release of LibreOffice 26.2, as well as stability improvements contributed by LibreOffice’s global community of developers, QA engineers, and ecosystem companies.
Those of you who have LibreOffice 26.2 installed from the software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution should wait until the 26.2.1 point release arrives there before updating your installations. Of course, you can also download the source tarball if you’re a system integrator.
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LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2
Markdown has been around for more than 20 years, but native support in LibreOffice might suddenly help to make it viable for more people.
In a world of ever-increasing software complexity, Markdown is a welcome change. It's dead simple and it can't do very much – but that's its virtue. Markdown is a document markup format you can just read (please, try to contain your excitement). It has two key advantages. One is that it's so simple that you can write in any old plain text editor. The second is that it's designed to be readable and make sense to humans as well as computers, even if they don't know they're reading Markdown.
It's the default format of several distraction-free writing tools such as I Write Like – the authors of which seem very pleased that LibreOffice 26.2 can natively import and export Markdown.
This is welcome, even if it isn't radical. Lots of web-facing tools can take a Markdown file and turn it into a functional web page. For instance, write your project's README file in Markdown, upload it to GitHub, and suddenly it magically looks nice, without you needing to do any web publishing or formatting at all. However, the plain Markdown text remains readable without any processing at all.