Organization The Document Foundation office suite release . Ready installation packages for various distributions of Linux, Windows and macOS, as well as in an edition for deploying an online version in .
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- Significantly improved performance of Writer and Calc. Compared to the previous release, loading and saving certain types of documents is up to 10 times faster. The performance increase is especially noticeable when reading and rendering text files with a large number of bookmarks, tables and embedded fonts, as well as when opening large files in ODS / XLSX formats and spreadsheets with VLOOKUP functions. Significantly accelerated file export in the format
XLS; - The compact Notebookbar toolbar has been redesigned to use tabs to switch single-line icon sets. This mode is now available in Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw. The mode is convenient for use on laptops with wide screens, since, unlike the Notebookbar variant, which is similar in design to the Ribbon style from Microsoft Office, the compact variant takes up less vertical screen space and frees up more space for the document;
- For Writer and Draw, a new one-line panel mode (Contextual Single UI) has been implemented, in which tool sets are automatically selected depending on the context of the operation being performed. The mode can be enabled in the menu "View ▸ User Interface" ("View ▸ User Interface");
- The "More" group of additional tools has been removed from the classic panel, all elements from which have been moved to the "Form Controls" panel ("Controls"). Added the ability to adjust the width of the sidebar (Office/UI/Sidebar/General/MaximumWidth). Sifr and Karasa Jaga pictogram sets have been significantly updated;
- Changed the design of the tabs in Calc and Draw, which have become more visible and convenient;
- Added a new "Tip of the Day" dialog that displays useful tips once a day after launch;
- Significantly expanded the capabilities of the server edition of LibreOffice Online, which allows you to organize collaboration with the office suite via the Web. Added the ability to view Microsoft Visio files (in read-only mode). Improved HiDPI support, increased online document processing performance and faster page loading. Writer has improved operations for selecting and rotating images, improved display of comments, support for adding and editing watermarks, and a button for inserting charts.
Implemented tools for managing languages and locales. A unified tool has been added to digitally sign, export and download PDF, ODT and DOCX. Improved organization of selection of areas and movement of chart segments in Charts. Simplified pasting from the clipboard and added support for pasting into dialog boxes. When creating a new document, you have the option to select a template. Impress has added dialogs for formatting characters, paragraphs and pages.
Calc has implemented conditional formatting dialogs and improved row insertion via the context menu. - Calc introduces a new pop-up widget in the formula input panel that replaces the old Sum tool and provides quick access to the most commonly used functions.
A new function FOURIER() has been added to perform a discrete Fourier transform on a specified array. The ruble symbol "₽" has been added to currency formats, which is now displayed instead of "rub". The statistical data sampling dialog has been redesigned (“Data -> Statistics -> Sampling” or “Data -> Statistics -> Sampling”).
- Writer has improved support for copying text tables from Calc (only visible cells in a selection are now copied). Added the ability to edit in place (inline) variable entry fields. Setting the background (color, gradient or image) now covers the entire page, including padding;
- Implemented closer to Word method of displaying text in table cells when writing bottom-up and left-to-right;
- Added the ability to manage MS Word input forms and use the "Form" menu as in MS Office (enabled via "Tools ▸ Options ▸ Writer ▸ Compatibility ▸ Reorganize Forms menu to have it MS compatible");
- an interface for editing documents for marking sections of text that should be excluded from exported files (for example, when saving to PDF) to hide confidential information, such as personal data;
- Improved PDF export and support for PDF/A-2 document format in addition to PDF/A-1 format. Designing editable PDF forms has been simplified by adding the Form menu to Writer. To improve compatibility with Microsoft Office, the ability to export documents in the format of .dotx and .xltx templates has been added;
- Improved compatibility with proprietary Microsoft Office formats. Added support for exporting document and spreadsheet templates in DOTX and XLTX formats. Implemented import of diagrams from DOCX defined as groups of shapes with drawingML markup.
Improved compatibility with Pivot Tables from XLSX files. Added import and export of SmartArt from PPTX files.
- Implementation of the console mode of operation has been added to the assemblies for Windows, which allows you to perform operations in batch mode without launching a graphical interface (for example, to print or convert formats);
- Significantly expanded the capabilities of the KDE5 and Qt5 VCL plugins, providing the ability to use native KDE and Qt dialogs, buttons, window borders and widgets. Added support for OpenGL, improved drag'n'drop, improved rendering of media slides in Impress, improved menu bar. Removed VCL plugin for KDE4;
- Stopped generating 32-bit builds for Linux (for Windows, 32-bit builds will continue to be published unchanged). Support for 32-bit systems has been retained in the source code, so Linux distributions can continue to ship 32-bit packages with LibreOffice, and enthusiasts can build newer versions from source.
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