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 . In pre-release, 74% of the changes were made by employees of the companies curating the project, such as Collabora, Red Hat and CIB, and 26% of the changes were added by independent enthusiasts.
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- Added format support
(ODF), which adds new features for document security, such as digitally signing documents and encrypting content using OpenPGP keys. The new version also adds support for polynomial and moving average regression types for graphs, implemented additional methods for formatting numbers in numbers, added a separate type of headers and footers for the main page, defined means for indenting paragraphs depending on context, improved tracking of changes in the document, and added a new template type for body text in documents. - Added support for drawing text, curves and images using the 2D library and faster output using the Vulkan graphics API. The Skia based engine is enabled by default only on the Windows platform instead of the backend using OpenGL.
- Improved compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX formats. Added support for saving DOCX documents in MS Office 2013/2016/2019 modes, instead of compatibility mode with MS Office 2007. Improved portability with different versions of MS Office. Implemented the ability to save XLSX files with table names exceeding 31 characters, as well as with checkbox switches. Fixed an issue that resulted in an "invalid content error" error when trying to open exported XLSX files with shapes. Improved PPTX export and import.
- The kf5 (KDE 5) and Qt5 VCL plugins, which allow the use of native KDE and Qt dialogs, buttons, window borders and widgets, now support interface scaling on high pixel density (HiDPI) screens.
- By default, for new installations, a blocking of panel movement is implemented, which allows to avoid accidental removal of the panel.
- Added new form galleries that can be easily edited and styled by the user. For example, new arrows, diagrams, pictograms, symbols, shapes, computer network elements, and flowcharts are available.
- A new icon theme, Sukapura, has been introduced to align with macOS visual design guidelines. This theme will be enabled by default for new installations of LibreOffice on the platform
macOS. - The default icon theme for Colibre on the Windows platform. The icons have been redesigned to match the new style of MS Office 365.
- Significantly updated and polished the Sifr icon set. The Tango icon set has been removed from the main cast, and will now ship as an external add-on.
- The Windows installer offers a new picture and icons.
- In Writer the ability to use aligned numbers in numbered lists and page numbers, i.e. having the same width, with the addition of a zero before the digit in short numbers (08,09,10,11).
Provided selection of installed bookmarks directly in the text (enabled via Standard Toolbar ▸ Toggle Formatting Marks and Tools ▸ Options… ▸ LibreOffice Writer ▸ Formatting Aids ▸ Bookmarks).
Writer has also added the ability to block bookmarks and fields from being modified (Tools ▸ Protect Document), grayed out empty fields, and improved handling of rotated text in table rows.
- In Calc new functions RAND.NV() and RANDBETWEEN.NV(), which, unlike RAND() and RANDBETWEEN(), generate the result once and are not recalculated with each cell change. Added support for case-ignoring flags to functions that support regular expression processing . The TEXT() function provides support for passing an empty string as the second argument. In the OFFSET() function, the optional 4th and 5th parameters must now be greater than zero.
Calc also has several performance optimizations: increased speed of opening XLSX files with a large number of pictures, improved search performance using autofilter, and reduced rollback operation time.
- In Writer, Draw and Impress support for translucent text.
- In Impress and Draw, superscript offset has been reduced from 33% to 8% relative to the baseline. The operations of entering into lists with animation, editing tables and opening some PPT files have been accelerated.
- presentation screen interface and presentation console in Impress.
- In the dialog for renaming pages in Draw and slides in Impress, a tooltip has been added to warn about specifying an empty or already existing name.
- In Draw and other modules when exporting to PDF the ability to set the page size to more than 200 inches (508 cm).
- Most templates in Impress have been converted to use 16:9 aspect ratio instead of 4:3.
- “Tools ▸ Accessibility Check…” tool for checking the text for readability by people with visual impairments.
- The EMF+ import filter now supports linear gradients, BeginContainer entries, and custom chart labels.
- Added support for glow effects and fading translucent edges to the DOCX and XLSX export filter.
- For Russian and Ukrainian languages, autocorrection of ASCII quotation marks with an apostrophe (') is provided instead of the closing quotation mark (“). If earlier the word "word'" was replaced by "word", now it will be replaced by "word'", but "'word'" will continue to be replaced by ""word". For the Ukrainian language, the autocorrect "< >" to ""word"".
- The spelling dictionary for English, Belarusian, Latvian, Catalan and Slovak has been updated. Updated thesaurus for the Russian language and converted the spelling dictionary from KOI8-R encoding to UTF-8. Added hyphenation templates for the Belarusian language.
- Added support for Java modules (so far only two modules are available: org.libreoffice.uno and org.libreoffice.unoloader). The files juh.jar, jurt.jar, ridl.jar, and unoil.jar are merged into one libreoffice.jar archive.
- Removed support for Python 2.7, now requires Python 3 to run scripts. Removed Adobe Flash export filter.
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