Join us at the #LibreOffice Conference 2026, which will take place in Pordenone, northern Italy, from 10 – 12 September! The Call for Papers is now open: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/11/libocon-2026-call-for-papers/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

In February, the #LibreOffice community worked on improvements to Writer and Calc table styles, along with other optimisations and fixes: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/03/10/qa-dev-report-february-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

New in #LibreOffice 26.2: Writer now supports Start and End paragraph alignment. These options align paragraphs relative to the paragraph text direction, and can simplify reusing styles across languages and writing systems. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2#Writer

Since I'm wishcasting about FLOSS bugs, here's another one.

Hey #LibreOffice using pals: I have an #Impress slideshow that consists entirely of JPEGs that fill each slide. The slides are set to 16:9 and each JPEG is 1600x900px. However, when I paste the JPEG into the slide, it is always offset by 0.03,0.02" and I have to go into "Position and Size" and set those values to 0,0. Is this a bug? Is it a setting?

Millions of students are getting locked into closed, proprietary software from Big Tech vendors. Here's how #LibreOffice can give them back their digital sovereignty: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/06/libreoffice-for-education-regaining-digital-sovereignty/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Millions of students are getting locked into closed, proprietary software from Big Tech vendors. Here's how #LibreOffice can give them back their digital sovereignty: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/06/libreoffice-for-education-regaining-digital-sovereignty/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware