The first alpha release of the LibreOffice 26.2 open-source and cross platform office suite is now available for testing ahead of its official release in February.
LibreOffice 26.2 is shaping up to be another incremental step forward for this popular free software alternative to Microsoft Office. The LibreOffice Writer word processor has improvements to its spell checking dialog, various tracking improvements to document changes, Start and End paragraph alignment, and other changes.
The Calc spreadsheet program in LibreOffice 26.2 adds connector support for Calc, support for xmlMaps.xml, improvements to the Sort dialog options, Biff12 clipboard format support found with Excel 2007+, and various performance improvements.
LibreOffice 26.2 Base is now properly multi-user, performance improvements for 3D charts with the Chart program, improved Google Drive authentication for LibreOffice, faster SVG rendering on Linux, and a number of UI refinements.
LibreOffice 26.2 also adds some experimental features such as BASIC IDE code completion, a new macro manager dialog, and ODF Wholesome Encryption.
Downloads and more details on the LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha 1 release via the Document Foundation QA blog.
