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The Document Foundation announced the first maintenance release for LibreOffice 26.8 yesterday.<\/p>\n
The new version of this popular free open-source office suite for Linux, Windows, and macOS introduced a few dozens of bug-fixes, focusing on the compatibility for Microsoft OOXML file format.<\/p>\n
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First in KDE Plasma and other Qt based desktop environments, the new LibreOffice 26.8.1 now uses native Qt widgets<\/strong> for its UI instead of drawing the widgets itself. So, the dialogs look and behave more like a native application.<\/p>\n For Calc<\/b> app, it fixed wrong dimensions for rotated drawing objects and unable to edit database ranges in XLSX files.<\/p>\n It also fixed the issues that AutoFilter incorrectly treated the German character It as well fixed the garbled Chinese text in the Text Import dialog when pasting unformatted text, and, “Text to Columns” feature was garbling Japanese text when it fails to detect a full-width space as the delimiter.<\/p>\n Other Calc fixes include special characters decoding issue in old Lotus 1-2-3 files, ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) detection when importing some CSV files, import of CSV files encoded as UTF-16BE, as well as a few crashes.<\/p>\n The Writer<\/b> app in the release also got many fixes, including Table of Contents (TOC) hyperlinks could randomly stop working in DOCX files, and text alignment issue for DOCX documents containing multiple tab characters.<\/p>\n It also fixed the line spacing issue when opening some DOC\/DOCX documents using CJK fonts, and fixed text highlighting not covering the full text height with Leading line spacing.<\/p>\n Other fixes include PDF export incorrectly displaying hidden paragraph numbering, Japanese full-width\/half-width character conversion, paragraphs being incorrectly moved to the next page, as well as app freeze when using the vertical scrollbar on ARM-based macOS.<\/p>\n For Impress, it fixed the PPTX import crash caused by an unknown table style ID or malformed \/ unusual comment data.<\/p>\n\u00df<\/code> as equivalent to ss<\/code>, and named hyperlinks were not working after exported as PDF.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/lb-calc-700x415.webp\")
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