LibreOffice 26.8.3 fixes crashes; 26.2 support ends 30 November
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The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.8.3 with about 45 bug fixes. Users on 26.2 must move to 26.8 before support ends on 30 November 2026.
The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 26.8.3, the third minor update in the LibreOffice 26.8 series, for Windows, macOS and Linux. The update contains about 45 bug fixes. Users on the 26.2 series should move to 26.8 soon, because 26.2 stops receiving bug fixes and security updates after 30 November 2026.
LibreOffice 26.8.3 fixes several crashes and hangs. Draw and Impress no longer crash when copying, pasting or clicking comments. Impress no longer crashes when plain text is pasted into the notes. Writer, Calc and the table style editing in Writer also have fixes. A Navigator loop that used CPU continuously since LibreOffice 26.8.0 has been resolved.
On macOS, LibreOffice now uses the system user interface font. Signing a document with an X.509 certificate works again, and sending attachments to Thunderbird has been fixed. In Calc, the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions now behave like their Excel versions.
The update also improves compatibility with Microsoft Office files. Numbered lists imported from PPTX files now show the correct sequence. Valid non-Zip64 packages larger than 2 GiB are no longer reported as corrupt. Sorting for Kurdish (Latin/Hawar) and Japanese collation have also been corrected.
The Document Foundation recommends LibreOffice 26.8.3 for all users. Organisations that need longer support can consider the enterprise editions offered by companies in the LibreOffice ecosystem. LibreOffice 26.8.3 can be downloaded from libreoffice.org.
Source: The Document Foundation Blog ↗. This summary is prepared automatically from the official source and may contain mistakes; the source is authoritative.