LibreOffice 25.8.4 is now available for download as the fourth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with more than 70 bug fixes.
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OnlyOffice desktop editors, the free open-source office suite for Linux, Windows, and macOS, released new 9.2 version yesterday.
The new release added AI agent support, customizable keyboard shortcut, macro recording for repetitive actions, and Windows on ARM support.
In the bottom left of the app window, an “AI agent” option is added, allowing to connect to either Anthropic, OpenAI, TogetherAI, or OpenRouter AI models through API key, or Ollama local hosted AI model.
After that, you may chat with AI to ask questions, find and open files on your computer, create new documents, presentations, or PDFs, generate text or HTML from files without open them, fill forms, and do more actions.
Besides that, the Document, Spreadsheet, Presentation, and PDF editors have AI toolbar options, allowing to do AI-powered translations, summarization, grammar correction and spell-checking. Though, they all need an AI model connected as mentioned above.
For those who often perform repetitive actions with OnlyOffice, the new version added View -> Record macro menu option, allowing to automate your actions by recording them as macros.
The new version also added support changing the keyboard shortcuts. Simply go to File -> Advanced Settings -> Keyboard Shortcuts, then click on “Customize” button. In pop-up dialog, find out your desired shortcut and either double-click or click ‘edit’ icon to change it.
Though, many shortcuts are locked as unchangeable, and a “Restore All to Defaults” option is available to reset them all.
Moreover, the new version added official support for Windows on ARM64 computers, such as Surface Laptop 7, Galaxy Book4 Edge, etc laptops with Snapdragon X series processors. And, ARM64 support for Linux is coming in future releases.
Other changes in OnlyOffice Desktop Editor 9.2 include:
For Ubuntu, the office suite can be installed easily through the App Center (or Ubuntu Software for 22.04). It’s the official Snap package that runs in sandbox environment. Though, at the moment of writing, it’s still at version 9.1.
For choice you may download the app package for Windows, Linux, and macOS from its website. Where, Ubuntu user may choose download:
The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced the release of LibreOffice 25.2.7, the final maintenance update in the LibreOffice 25.2 series, now available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download. The foundation urged users of the 25.2 branch to upgrade to LibreOffice 25.8.x, as the 25.2 line nears its end of support. Recommended: 10 Best Free Office Suites for […]
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ONLYOFFICE 9.2 is out. The free, open-source office suite now includes a built-in AI Agent for document generation, content analysis, and more. Feature details inside.
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LibreOffice 25.8.3 is now available for download as the third maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with 70 bug fixes.
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LibreOffice 25.2.7 is now available for download as the last update in the LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with 57 bug fixes. Users are now urged to update to LibreOffice 25.8.
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The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced the release of LibreOffice 25.2.7, the final maintenance update in the LibreOffice 25.2 series, now available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download. The foundation urged users of the 25.2 branch to upgrade to LibreOffice 25.8.x, as the 25.2 line nears its end of support. Recommended: 10 Best Free Office Suites for […]
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OnlyOffice Desktop Editor, the free open-source offline use office suite, release new 9.1 version yesterday.
The new release updated the PDF editing support with new tools, and improved formulas in sheets. It now automatically recover unsaved documents due to app crashes.
First, in PDF editing mode, it introduced new Redact feature, allowing to hide sensitive or confidential information.
The Redact tab includes “Mark for Redaction”, “Redact Pages”, and “Find & Redact” options, allowing user to select rectangle area in PDF content, choose PDF pages, or find all matched keywords, then use “Apply Redactions” option to hide them.
In “Comment” tab, there are new annotation tools added, allowing to draw rectangle, circle, arrow, and connected lines on your PDF, with custom color and size.
And in “Insert” tab, it added new SmartArt and Chart option, allowing to insert many new objects into your PDF.
The Spreadsheet editor now provides updated LOOKUP, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and XLOOKUP formulas that now deliver up to 4x faster exact and linear searches.
It also added support for date filters in pivot tables, dedicated “Table Design” tab with formatted table settings, and added Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left options in Home tab to easily switch text direction in cells.
The release also improved the Templates support. It now includes many templates in local computer as well as tons of templates in cloud.
Clicking on a cloud template no longer open it directly in editor, instead it shows a popup with bigger preview with description as well as file type and size, making clearer whether it’s what you want before downloading it.
For Windows 10 and higher, it now displays the notifications about file associations and updates via system toast notifications instead of modal windows.
For macOS, it finally added the new options to insert audio and video files in Presentation, as well as built-in media player to play videos in your slides.
Other changes in the release include:
For more about OnlyOffice Desktop Editors 9.1, see the official announcement.
For Ubuntu user, the office suite is easy to install by using App Center (or Snap Store). It’s Snap package that runs in sandbox environment. And, at the moment of writing, it’s still at version 9.0.x.
OnlyOffice in App Center
For choice you may download the app package for Windows, Linux, and macOS from its website. Where Ubuntu user may choose Download DEB, then click open with App Center to install.
The free ONLYOFFICE productivity suite has been updated with a host of new features, including an improved PDF Editor. Details on what's new inside.
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ONLYOFFICE has released version 9.1 of its Desktop Editors suite for Linux, Windows, and macOS, introducing significant upgrades across PDF editing, spreadsheet performance, and chart functionality. The update also enhances usability with smarter system integration and improved file handling. The ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors 9.1 release delivers a focused set of productivity improvements for offline users […]
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LibreOffice 25.8.2 is now available for download as the second maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with 70 bug fixes.
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LibreOffice 25.8.1 brings almost 100 bug, crash and other regression fixes. This is the first of several planned point updates to the latest stable release series.
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LibreOffice 25.8 released with PDF 2.0 export, 30% faster file opening, new Calc functions, better performance, and various user-interface tweaks.
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LibreOffice, the popular free open-source office suite, release new 25.8 version today!
LibreOffice 25.8 is a new major release that features user interface improvements, many new spreadsheet functions, faster file loading, and many other new features.
First, the new release added support for exporting PDF 2.0 (ISO 32000-2). The PDF export dialog now offers a drop-down box to choose PDF 2.0 or PDF/A-4 that’s using PDF 2.0 as the base. And, it implemented modern AES-256 encryption that is mandatory with PDF 2.0.
For those who would like to use LibreOffice as a document viewer, the release introduced application-wide viewer mode that all files will be open as read-only mode with all editing tools disabled.
And the option is controlled by ViewerAppMode option in the Advanced -> Expert Configuration dialog.
Enable Application Wide Viewer (read-only) Mode.
The Calc app in the release introduced many new functions. They include CHOOSECOLS, CHOOSEROWS, DROP, EXPAND, HSTACK, TAKE, TEXTAFTER, TEXTBEFORE, TEXTSPLIT, TOCOL, TOROW, VSTACK, WRAPCOLS, and WRAPROWS functions.
It as well added “Clear AutoFilter” option to Calc cells context menu, and ability to customize conditional formatting operators in icon sets.
The Writer app introduced new Move line hyphenation rule to choose whether to hyphenate the last line words of the pages and move the whole lines to the next pages instead.
It added paragraph, column, page and spread end zones, command to insert a paragraph break before a table, command to convert fields into plain text, and dialog for copy content of a field from read-only document.
There are also per-window track changes recording, reinstate for tracked changes, option to redact images (remove sensitive data), and ability to set the language of certain punctuation characters.
Redact Images
LibreOffice 25.8 also has significantly performance improvements. Writer and Calc open files up to 30% faster in benchmark tests.
For Writer, it’s now much faster for deleting very large tables, faster loading tables with bookmarks, and faster to open large right-to-left documents in. For Calc, it greatly improved loading XLSX files with lots of conditional formatting, graphical objects, customFormat attributes, or formulas.
Other changes in the release include:
LibreOffice 25.8 also removed Windows 7 and 8/8.1 support, deprecated 32-bit Windows build. And, it’s the last version that runs on macOS 10.15. For more, see the official release note.
LibreOffice 25.8 is available to download for Linux, Windows, and macOS via the link below:
For Ubuntu users, there are 5 choices, though some of them are not updated at the moment of writing.
Loginlibfuse2 package first.
LibreOffice AppImage
sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice.flatpakref
.deb package. Though the LibreOffice Fresh PPA usually has a few weeks (even months) delay for the new major releases.To add PPA and upgrade pre-installed libreoffice to the latest, run commands below one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa sudo apt update sudo apt install libreoffice
.deb packages for Ubuntu and Debian users.After downloaded the tarball, extract, and navigate to the sub-folder that contains all the .deb packages. Right blank area and select “Open in Terminal”, finally run command to install them all:
sudo apt install ./*.deb
As there are so many ways to install the office suite, it’s easy to get it installed multiple times, resulting duplicated app icons.
Make backup of your important data before uninstalling the application.
To uninstall the Snap package, either use App Center (or Ubuntu Software) or run command:
snap remove --purge libreoffice
For Flatpak package, use the command below to uninstall:
flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.libreoffice.LibreOffice
To uninstall the Deb packages downloaded from LibreOffice website, use command:
sudo apt remove libobasis25.8* libreoffice25.8*
Or, remove the Ubuntu PPA package by running command:
sudo apt remove --autoremove libreoffice-common
NOTE: Remove the PPA package will also get rid of the pre-installed LibreOffice (if Ubuntu was installed in “Extended selection” mode). You may choose to purge PPA which will downgrade LibreOffice to the stock version:
sudo apt install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice/ppa
