The Document Foundation release of the office suite . Ready-to-use installation packages for various distributions of Linux, Windows, and macOS, as well as in an edition for deploying the online version in . In the preparation of the release, 75% of the changes were made by employees of the project steward companies, such as Collabora, Red Hat, and CIB, while 25% of the changes were contributed by independent enthusiasts.
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- For documents displayed on the homepage, icons with application indicators have been provided to immediately assess the document type (presentation, spreadsheet, text document, etc.);
- The interface includes a QR code generator that allows users to insert a QR code with a specified link or arbitrary text into the document, which can then be quickly read with a mobile device.
In Impress, Draw, Writer, and Calc, the QR code insertion dialog is accessed through the menu 'Insert ▸ Object ▸ QR Code'; - For all components of LibreOffice, a unified context menu has been implemented for managing hyperlinks. In any document, the context menu now allows you to open, edit, copy, or delete a link;
- an automatic editing tool that now allows for the hiding of classified or confidential data in exported documents (for example, when saving to PDF) based on user-defined arbitrary text masks or regular expressions;
- A built-in local search engine for help pages has been added, allowing you to quickly find the needed hint (the search is based on the engine ). Many help pages are provided with localized screenshots, the language of which matches the text language;
- An SVG variant of dark icons for the Breeze and Sifr themes has been added to the classic panel, as well as large icons (32×32) for the Sifr theme;
- In Writer, the ability to mark comments as resolved has been introduced (for example, to indicate that the suggested edit in the comment has been made). Resolved comments can be displayed with a special label or hidden;
- support for attaching comments not only to text but also to images and diagrams within the document;
- Tools for composing tables have been added to the Writer sidebar;
- Improved options for cutting, copying, and pasting tables. New commands have been added for quickly moving and deleting entire tables and individual rows/columns (when cutting, not only the content but also the table structure is cut). Improved movement of tables, rows, and columns using the mouse in drag & drop mode. A new menu item ‘Paste as Nested Table’ has been added for creating nested tables (inserting one table into another);
- In Writer, the performance of importing documents with a large number of bookmarks has also been increased. Change tracking has been established for numbered and bulleted lists. The ability to place text in text inserts (Writer Text Frames) vertically from bottom to top;
- Settings to automatically exclude overlapping shapes in the document;
- In Calc The option to export multiple spreadsheets to a single-page PDF, allowing all content to be viewed at once without flipping through pages;
- In Calc, the selection of cells containing hyperlinks has also been improved. Parallel calculation of unrelated groups of formulas across different CPU cores has been enabled. A multithreaded variant of the sorting algorithm has been added, which is currently only applied to pivot tables;
- In Impress and Draw, the ‘Shape’ menu now includes the ‘Consolidate Text’ option, allowing several selected text blocks to be combined into one. For instance, this operation may be needed after importing from PDF, which resulted in text being split into numerous disjointed blocks;
- The capabilities of the server edition of LibreOffice Online have been expanded, allowing for collaborative work with the office suite via the Web. In Writer Online, the ability to change table properties through the sidebar has been introduced. Full support for document table of contents (Table of Contents) has been implemented.
In Calc Online, all features of the function wizard are now available.
Support for the conditional formatting management dialog has been added. All options displayed when selecting charts have been implemented in the sidebar;
- Significantly improved compatibility with Microsoft Office documents in DOC, DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX formats. Enhanced performance for saving and opening spreadsheets with a large number of comments, styles, COUNTIF() functions, and change tracking log entries. Speeding up the opening of certain types of PPT files.
The password limit for protected XLSX files has been lifted from 15 characters. - VCL plugins kf5 and Qt5, allowing the use of native KDE and Qt dialogs, buttons, window frames, and widgets, are now comparable in functionality to other VCL plugins. The kde5 plugin has been renamed to kf5.
- Support for Java 6 and 7 has been discontinued (Java 8 remains) and the VCL rendering backend using GTK+2 has been removed.
Source: opennet.ru
