Link: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/

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 documents survive exchange with other office suites.

the only assurance that survives an audit is that it does not leave the machine.

Well said!

Does the user interface still look like it was designed in 1993 ?

And if you want AI.. Copy paste. I know it's clonky on windows... Copy one thing from one app and then paste it into another app. I know, it's a crazy idea. Previously you had to use all your Nvidia compute cores to solve the complexity of such a challenging problem. But I'm glad Windows is trying to bring it to the platform. It's in its infancy, but trust me, they'll get it right one day. They got smart people working on this. They say that within 10 years they'll be able to paste images into text! Crazy, I know. For now, I use libre office. It's awesome.

You can use the tabbed interface if you prefer that