The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.8.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with various bug fixes.
Coming five weeks after LibreOffice 25.8.1, the LibreOffice 25.8.2 update is here to address various bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users in an attempt to improve the overall stability and reliability of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite.
In numbers, the LibreOffice 25.8.2 point release addresses a total of 70 bugs. Details about these bugs are available in the RC1 and RC2 changelogs. LibreOffice 25.8.2 is available for download right now from the official website as binaries for DEB and RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions.
Those of you who have LibreOffice 25.8 installed from the software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution should wait until the 25.8.2 point release arrives there before updating your installations. Of course, you can also download the source tarball if you’re a system integrator.
LibreOffice 25.8 was released on August 20th, 2025, introducing major changes like support for exporting PDF 2.0, up to 30% faster opening of files in Writer and Calc, optimized memory management for smoother operation on virtual desktops and thin clients, improved scrolling through large documents, and completely overhauled word hyphenation and spacing.
The LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series will be supported with seven maintenance updates until June 12th, 2026. The next point release, LibreOffice 25.8.3, is planned for mid-November 2025. Meanwhile, all LibreOffice 25.8 users should consider updating to LibreOffice 25.8.2 as soon as possible.
Once again, The Document Foundation reminds us that this is the “Community” edition of LibreOffice, which is supported only by volunteers. For enterprise-class deployments, The Document Foundation recommends using the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners.
Also today, The Document Foundation announced that they consider Amazon Linux 2023 as another platform supported by the LibreOffice office suite by offering 64-bit ARM (AArch64) Linux builds in the RPM format.
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