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LibreOffice 26.8 Beta Released For Improving This Free Software Office Suite
Written by Michael Larabel in LibreOffice on 8 July 2026 at 12:27 PM EDT. 34 Comments
The Document Foundation today announced the first beta release of the LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite set for its stable debut in August.
Some of the highlights of new changes coming with LibreOffice 26.8 include:
- Infrastructure to support comparing documents side-by-side in LibreOffice Writer.
- Writer can now more quickly open large documents with images.
- Calc adds a shuffle command to randomize the order of cells in a range.
- LibreOffice Draw now supports swapping mouse wheel zoom and scroll.
- LibreOffice Chart has experimental support for import and re-export of new Chartex chart types that can be created in Microsoft Office and saved to OOXML files.
- LibreOffice 26.8 now has the Notebookbars' background color be colored individually per LibreOffice module.
More details on the many changes coming to LibreOffice 26.8 can be found via the work-in-progress release notes. Downloads and more details on the LibreOffice 26.8 Beta 1 release via the Document Foundation QA blog.
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