The history of the standardisation process of the proprietary OOXML format: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/23/the-history-of-ooxml-format/

A recap of the #LibreOffice Conference 2026, which took place in September in Pordenone, northern Italy. Thanks to the local team for organising the event! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-AZY8H5mn4 #foss #opensource #freesoftware

8 weeks, 9.4 million downloads
The announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 had a noticeable positive effect on download figures, which have since exceeded one million per week, totalling 9.4 million downloads over eight weeks, from 24 August to 18 October.
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Did you know? #LibreOffice has a tabbed user interface option. Here's how to enable it:

New in #LibreOffice 26.8: Better accessibility – LibreOffice continues its accessibility work with improvements that make the interface easier to navigate using assistive technologies. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8#Accessibility #foss #opensource #freesoftware

New in #LibreOffice 26.8: More descriptive fields – Displaying field names now includes clearer descriptions for document statistics fields, making complex documents easier to understand. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware

The Politics of Standards

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/16/the-politics-of-standards/

New in #LibreOffice 26.8: Mixed page sizes – Impress and Draw can now use different page sizes within the same document – a long-requested feature for more flexible presentations. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware

LibreOffice come to the rescue of Microsoft Publisher users
LibreOffice Draw is the quickest way to open, view, edit and manage Publisher documents, and although it is not a desktop publishing application, it can be used for small multi-page documents, such as newsletters, or for single-page documents of any format.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/14/libreoffice-come-to-the-rescue-of-microsoft-publisher-users/

New in #LibreOffice 26.8: RTL text detection – LibreOffice Writer now automatically detects paragraph direction when opening or pasting plain right-to-left text. Less manual formatting, smoother editing for Arabic and Hebrew documents. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Governments, organisations and companies around the world are moving to #LibreOffice – and to help them, we have Certified Migration Professionals. Here's what we did at a recent workshop in Nairobi, Kenya: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/13/libreoffice-migration-workshop-in-nairobi-kenya/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

New in #LibreOffice 26.8: Improved DOCX comments – Deleted comment ranges in Microsoft Word documents are now imported and exported more accurately, further improving DOCX compatibility. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware