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Version
26.8 of the LibreOffice suite has been released.

LibreOffice 26.8 concentrates on three areas: the typographic quality of what
the suite produces, the range of writing systems it handles correctly, and the
fidelity with which documents survive exchange with other office suites.

The largest single body of work in this release addresses bidirectional and
complex text. Writer now detects paragraph direction automatically when
documents or plain text are opened or pasted. Line wrapping places end-of-line
spaces according to the direction of the paragraph rather than that of the
adjacent characters. Object resize handles behave correctly in right-to-left and
vertical CJK documents. Bidirectional control characters are now visible
alongside other formatting marks. In Calc, typing right-to-left text into an
empty cell sets the direction of that cell automatically.

See the release notes
for a full list of changes.