LibreOffice 25.8 beta is now available for this popular open-source office suite. LibreOffice 25.8 has been baking many improvements for this popular Microsoft Office alternative and leading office suite option for the Linux desktop.

There are many changes that have been brewing for the LibreOffice 25.8 office suite release due out in August. Some of the highlights for this release include:

- Various performance improvements for loading Writer documents and DOCX files.

- LibreOffice Calc has performance improvements for opening of Microsoft Excel (XLSX) ifles and various other performance optimizations to this spreadsheet program.

- A variety of new functions were added to the Calc spreadsheet program like WRAPCOLS, TOCOL, TOROW, EXPAND, DROP, CHOOSECOLS, VSTACK, and others.

- LibreOffice Writer adds a command to insert a paragraph break before tables.

- The Ctrl + Shift + F2 command shortcut was added for converting fields into plain text.

- LibreOffice 25.8 brings a new application-wide viewer model for opening documents in read-only mode.

- Support for importing encrypted hybrid PDFs.

- Various spell check dictionary and thesaurus improvements.

- Removing support for Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1.

Downloads and more details on today's LibreOffice 25.8 Beta 1 release via the [1]Document Foundation QA blog . An optional LibreOffice 25.8 Beta 2 may come later this month followed by the first release candidate in early July. After two more release candidates, LibreOffice 25.8 stable should debut the third week of August.



[1] https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/06/13/libreoffice-25-8-beta1-is-available-for-testing/