AbiWord is a free word processing program. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks but remain focused on word processing.
AbiWord is meant to remain relatively lightweight and support many file formats.
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Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | 3.0.8 | 1 Oct 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
3.0.817 Feb 2026
- Fix memory leaks with a collab Telepathy error.
- Fix paste of images from Firefox.
- Fix memory leaks in styles dialog, Gtk text input.
- Fix use after free and memory leak with list numbering.
- Fix memory leak with text drag and drop.
- Fix memory leak in OpenXML importer/exporter.
- Remove babelfish and freetranslation plugins.
- Fix appstream for newer flathub requirements.
- Properly remember the recent files even if AbiWord crashes.
- wordperfect: Use the more recent version of libwpd libwpg and libwps.
3.0.730 Jul 2025
- Fix memory leaks in Styles, Font Chooser, Borders, List, Clip Art, Replace, Tabs and Table dialogs.
- Fix memory leaks in XHTML import.
- Fix memory leaks in cut and paste.
- Fix memory leaks in the ODF exporter.
- Fix memory leaks in the GdkPixbuf importer.
- Fix crash when editing lists.
- Fix crash when inserting a JPEG image.
- Restored icons from page setup dialog (Removed XPM in 3.0.6).
- Minor spacing adjustement in the status bar.
3.0.63 Nov 2024
No release notes supplied.
3.0.53 Jul 2021
No release notes supplied.