LibreOffice 25.8 arrives with a tagline of "smarter, faster and more reliable." That all sounds good. So what's new?

As we mentioned a year ago looking at LibreOffice 24.8 , the Document Foundation has adopted a new version-numbering scheme. This reflects that LibreOffice is a very mature piece of software now, with roots in a German word processor for the Amstrad CPC a full 40 years ago. Expect small, incremental improvements instead of big, sweeping changes.

Many of the improvements in version 25.8 are along the same lines as we've reported on in recent versions. First, it's faster than it was. Notably, this release should start faster, scroll through documents faster, and open Writer and Calc files faster.

If you open Microsoft Office documents, .DOCX , .XLSX , and .PPTX files should

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