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We hope you're enjoying the new features in #LibreOffice 26.2! Here's a look behind-the-scenes at what the developer and QA community did in January: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/02/11/qa-dev-report-january-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Secondary: "Tianve" - HP-250 G3Operating System: OpenBSD 7.8 amd64Desktop: LXQT 2.2.0 Windowmanager: XFWM4Qt Version: 6.8.3Graphics Platform: X11https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=77494a1526#runbsd #openbsd #fishlinux #unix #foss #lxqt #desktop #screenshot

Open Document Format (ODF) is the standard format in #LibreOffice. Now there's version 0.13.0 of the ODF Toolkit – a community-driven, open-source library for creating, scanning, and manipulating ODF files: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/11/odf-toolkit-project-announces-release-0-13-0-last-release-supporting-jdk-11/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

New in #LibreOffice 26.2: When exporting a PDF, you can now choose to remove cross-document links. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2#Core_/_General #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Stout gives me bad vibes. Can't justify them, but I got the same feeling about Proton mail before it was eventually revealed to be indeed a honeypot.@konstruct@woof.tech

@fabio @aral @mpsi We don’t sell data or metadata to anyone and never have. We sell encrypted messaging services - element.io/server-suite etc.

@analog_feelings I think you missed the point We write everything manually. You made an incorrect assumption

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