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QA/Dev Report: September 2026 - QA Community Blog

General Activities LibreOffice 26.2.6 was announced on September 4 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved help for many Calc functions, alignment and number formats in Calc and the Data Range button in Calc’s Navigator. He also added meta data for cross referencing translated online help pages to improve web search results Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge help Tulio Macedo polished the CSS styles for help Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added support for hidden text in Writer’s HTML import and updated PDFium

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Today, we are celebrating sixteen years of LibreOffice's independence and commitment to supporting free software, open standards and digital sovereignty - TDF Community Blog

On 28 September 2010, a group of OpenOffice.org community members announced the launch of the LibreOffice project and the foundation that would support it: The Document Foundation. The announcement sparked some confusion and scepticism, as well as enormous enthusiasm amongst those in the community who believe in free and open-source software. 28 September 2010 acted as a litmus test, unequivocally separating the true supporters of free and open-source software from those who were opportunistical

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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog

One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of millions of people – in schools, hospitals, public bodies, law firms and thousands of other organisations – will not add a feature to its default configuration until that feature can be delivered under the conditions defined by the project in accordance with its principles. User-contro

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LibreOffice 26.8 brings professional typography, deeper support for the world's writing systems, and no artificial intelligence - TDF Community Blog

Berlin, 26 August 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the availability of LibreOffice 26.8, the new major release of the free and open source office suite, for Windows, macOS and Linux. Development began in December 2025, and the release consolidates the work of 206 contributors, of whom 155 are volunteers. LibreOffice 26.8 concentrates on three areas: the typographic quality of what the suite produces, the range of writing systems it handles correctly, and the fidelity with which doc

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The LibreOffice Conference 2026 begins! - TDF Community Blog

Yes, the LibreOffice Conference 2026 has started in Pordenone, northern Italy. If you’re attending in-person, we look forward to seeing you! If you want to attend remotely, we will be live-streaming most sessions on the schedule (in track rooms 1 and 2) and making recordings of all. Find out more by following our communication channels, where we’ll post the streaming links as we go live: Announcements channel (Telegram) Chat group (Telegram) Chat group (IRC, bridged to Telegram) Enjo

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Why and how the Austrian Military moved to LibreOffice (Part 1) - TDF Community Blog

Many government departments around the world are moving away from vendor lock-in by tech giants, and switching to free and open source software like LibreOffice. This helps with privacy, security, and digital sovereignty. One such example is the Austrian Military (Bundesheer), which has moved 16,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. We talked to them, to find out why and how they did it… When did all of this start? When were the first decisions made? It began in 2020, with the tren

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One week of LibreOffice 26.8 – The stats! - TDF Community Blog

One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 26.8, our brand new major update. It’s full of new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too. So, what has happened in the week since then? Let’s check out some statistics… 1,031,162 downloads This is the highest number of downloads in the first week of any LibreOffice release! These are just stats from our official downloads page, of course – many Linux users will have acquired the new release via their distribution’s package

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NotebookBar part 2: icons, text and the code - LibreOffice Development Blog

The NotebookBar (NBB) or tabbed interface is an alternative UI for LibreOffice. Here I explain where text & icons for notebookbar come from.

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LibreOffice 26.2.5 is available for download - TDF Community Blog

Berlin, 23 July 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.5, the fifth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch. Building on the major feature release published on February 4, 2026, this update delivers targeted bug fixes and stability improvements contributed by a global community of developers and QA engineers. Skia rendering on macOS and Windows, introduced for better graphics performance, has now been put under experimental mode to avoid crashes

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The invisible architecture of lock-in: the layering of dependencies - TDF Community Blog

There is a sophisticated mechanism by which proprietary technology ecosystems maintain their grip on users and institutions, even when those users and institutions believe they are making free choices, using open standards, and building independent digital infrastructure. The mechanism does not work through force, but through a subtler and more durable strategy: the layering of dependencies, in which each layer obscures the one beneath it, so that when the system fails the apparent cause is some

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Community Member Monday: Tulio Macedo - TDF Community Blog

Tell us what you’re doing in the LibreOffice project, and other free and open source (FOSS) projects! I’m a member of the Brazilian documentation team, officially since 2017. I spent most of that time working on translation and localisation, but lately I’ve been working more on web design, like the Bookshelf project and the online help update. I’d also worked on translation and localisation in other projects before, like the XOOPS CMS and the Fedora project, where I start

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How proprietary formats have become Microsoft's main tool for lock-in - TDF Community Blog

In the previous article, we explored the importance of standards: how the unspoken agreements governing electrical sockets, paper sizes and file formats form the foundations of a world in which choices remain open and power is not concentrated in the hands of a single player. We concluded with a question: if open standards are so beneficial, why aren’t they universally adopted? The answer, in the case of document formats, lies in a single page produced by Microsoft Office. Getting rid of i

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What is Digital Sovereignty - TDF Community Blog

Digital sovereignty is not about owning everything, it is about ensuring that nothing essential can be taken away. That single line settles more arguments than it first appears to, because it disqualifies the two positions that dominate the debate. One side imagines sovereignty as control. The other imagines it as choice. Both are talking about something real, and both have mistaken a part for the whole. The control camp misreads the goal The instinct to equate sovereignty with control is unders

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LibreOffice Conference 2026 schedule is online! - TDF Community Blog

The LibreOffice Conference 2026 will take place in Pordenone, Italy, from September 10 – 12. And now the schedule is online, with: 8 conference tracks 64 sessions 49 speakers Click here to view the schedule

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The invisible architecture of lock-in: the layering of dependencies - TDF Community Blog

There is a sophisticated mechanism by which proprietary technology ecosystems maintain their grip on users and institutions, even when those users and institutions believe they are making free choices, using open standards, and building independent digital infrastructure. The mechanism does not work through force, but through a subtler and more durable strategy: the layering of dependencies, in which each layer obscures the one beneath it, so that when the system fails the apparent cause is some

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Hi there, unfortunately this isn’t working correctly in Calc with this environment: Version: 25.2.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 520(Build:2) CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.utf8); UI: en-US Debian package version: 4:25.2.3-2 Calc: threaded It does work when I click on a cell and paste formatted content from Chromium with Ctrl + V, which is mapped to “Paste unformatted text”. However, when I double click on a cell to ed

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