The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8.
LibreOffice is a powerful, free and open source office suite for Linux, MacOS and Microsoft Windows.
No advertising. No data tracking. No subscriptions.
LibreOffice is used by individuals, businesses, schools, hospitals and cities around the world.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/20/libreoffice-25-8/
New improvements
Highlights of LibreOffice 25.8 include:
- Up to 30% faster opening of files in Writer and Calc
- Support for exporting PDF 2.0
- Improved user interface: the Welcome/What’s New dialog now offers access to the user interface picker and appearance options
- Optimized memory management for smoother operation on virtual desktops
- Improved scrolling through large documents
- New viewer mode to open all files in read-only mode.
- Overhauled word hyphenation and spacing
- New financial functions in Calc
- Significantly better display of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean DOC/DOCX documents
- Spell check dictionaries updates for Danish, English, Hindi, Mongolian, Spanish, Thai, and Ukrainian.
The Document Foundation
The Document Foundation is a German non-profit organization.
We believe that Free Software can provide better privacy, quality, reliability, and greater flexibility than corporate alternatives.
Helping
LibreOffice is developed by hundreds of volunteers around the world.
Join us today and help us to make it even better ❤️
👉 https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/
Thank you to the developers, designers, translators, donors and supporters 🙏 🙏🙏.
Do they have a PDF editor solution?
Firefox lets you open and edit pdfs
LibreOffice Draw can actually edit PDFs - it’s not perfect for complex layouts but works great for basic editing, adding text, and modifing simple elements (tho sometimes formatting gets a bit wonky).
Maybe i got lucky, but i always had good experiences with the pdfs i had to tweak in draw
But most of my modofications are kind of form-filling, alignment font and format was never a reequirement