The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.8.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with various bug fixes.
LibreOffice 25.8.1 is here only 9 days after the release of LibreOffice 25.8 and it contains fixes for various bugs, crashes, and other issues reported by users. In particular, it fixes a crash related to the NotebookBar UI option and several bugs related to opening documents in the MS Office proprietary format.
In numbers, the LibreOffice 25.8.1 point release addresses a total of 94 bugs. Check out the full changelog for more details about the fixes included in this update. LibreOffice 25.8.1 is already available for download 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 25.2.1 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 25.8.2, is planned for early October 2025. Meanwhile, all LibreOffice 25.8 users should consider updating to LibreOffice 25.8.1 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.
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