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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

@jerrej Well yes, Linux distros usually include the Gtk/Qt integration too, so the old-looking VCL interface should hardly ever come up. That's why there's no need to update it. But yes, there is an argument that when the desktop integration package is missing, LibreOffice should alert the user (while showing the old-looking VCL interface).

@libreoffice very lovelytried placing some pictures in writer the other day and they kept jumping around, moving to other pages while my sanity deterioratedand i swear i was not on drugs. well i was on drugs, but only a little

@fdroidorg If you need the editor working, please help us to make it happen! We are a volunteer-driven, community open source project with limited resources. We'd love to have a more powerful Android app too – but we need help!

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

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

New in #LibreOffice 26.2: When natural sort is enabled in the Sort options dialog, there is an additional option to treat decimal separators as regular characters. This allows sorting IP addresses, for example, even if the locale has a dot as the decimal separator.