The release of ONLYOFFICE DocumentServer 9.1 has been published, featuring the server for ONLYOFFICE online editors and facilitating collaboration. The editors can be used for working with text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The project code is distributed under the AGPLv3 free license. Pre-built packages are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Concurrently, the release of the ONLYOFFICE DesktopEditors 9.1 product has been prepared, built on a single codebase with the online editors. The desktop editors are presented as desktop applications written in JavaScript using web technologies, but they combine client and server components in one package, designed for standalone use on the user's local system without any reliance on external services. The Nextcloud Hub platform can also be used for collaborative work on their infrastructure, ensuring full integration with ONLYOFFICE.
ONLYOFFICE claims full compatibility with MS Office and OpenDocument formats. Supported formats include: DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, TXT, PDF, HTML, EPUB, XPS, DjVu, XLS, XLSX, ODS, CSV, PPT, PPTX, ODP. The functionality of the editors can be extended through plugins, for instance, plugins for creating templates and adding videos from YouTube are available. Pre-built packages are available for Windows and Linux (deb and rpm packages).
Key innovations:
- A 'Redact' tab has been added to the PDF editor with tools for hiding confidential information in the document. To exclude information from the document, simply click the 'Mark for Redaction' button, highlight the necessary section, and press 'Apply Redaction'. It's possible to hide words or phrases using search or to redact individual pages or ranges.
- New tools for annotating PDF documents have been added, allowing users to insert markings into the document using rectangles, circles, lines, and arrows. The width of lines and the color of shapes can be modified.
- The ability to add diagrams and SmartArt graphics to PDF documents has been implemented to visually represent data and highlight key insights.
- Functions like LOOKUP, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, and XLOOKUP in the spreadsheet editor have been significantly accelerated, the logic for handling mixed data types has been improved, and memory consumption during formula calculations has been reduced. Exact search operations through VLOOKUP and linear search through XLOOKUP have been sped up by up to 4 times.
- As you enter a formula in the spreadsheet editor, active arguments are highlighted to simplify tracking and editing calculations.
- Table formatting settings have been moved to a separate 'Table Design' tab that appears when working with a table.
- Pivot Tables now support filters, simplifying trend evaluation and data analysis related to time.
- You can now open and display files containing interactive content controls, such as buttons, scroll bars, lists, and value selection items.
- You can rename spreadsheet sheets in place by double-clicking on their names.
- A feature has been added to change the text direction (Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left) in individual cells.
- In all ONLYOFFICE components, you can now configure the display of resolved and under-discussion comments in the left panel.
- For 2D pie charts and doughnut charts, an 'Explosion' option has been added to visually separate chart segments from each other. When copying charts between editors, it's possible to embed a file or a link to the data source. You can enable or disable specific chart elements such as axis titles and labels.
- A comprehensive chart editor has been implemented for documents and slides, allowing direct opening of XLSX files bypassing the cache.
- In the presentation editor, the 'Slide Master' settings have been moved to a separate tab.
- Support for HEIF image format has been added, as well as the ability to view and edit HWPMLL (Hangul Word Processor Markup Language) documents.
- Support for converting PPTX presentations and PDF documents into plain text (TXT) has been added.
- The ability to insert mathematical formulas in MathML format has been added.
- The document editor now supports section breaks within block elements. content management at any level of nesting.
- An admin panel has been added to the server version of ONLYOFFICE Docs, which allows monitoring server status and managing settings.
- Working with templates has been simplified, and support for previewing templates stored in cloud storage has been added.
- In the desktop version of ONLYOFFICE, system mechanisms for displaying notifications are used for update alerts or setting file associations instead of displaying a custom modal window.
- In the ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors builds for macOS, support has been added for inserting audio and video files into presentation slides, as well as an option to disable the spell check language detection.
- A new mechanism for recovering unsaved documents after a crash has been added to the ONLYOFFICE desktop builds, allowing previously open documents to be automatically restored to their state before the failure upon restarting the application.
- Vulnerabilities allowing arbitrary file writing, as permitted by access rights, during the conversion of specially formatted files to x2t and EPUB have been fixed. Cross-site scripting (XSS) has been addressed in the processing of hyperlinks in the document. A vulnerability in the endpoint handler that allows modification has been corrected. server configuration.
Source: opennet.ru
