Alpha-utgivelsen av LibreOffice 7.2

Alpha testing of the LibreOffice 7.2 office suite has begun. Ready builds for Linux, Windows, and macOS have been prepared that can be installed alongside stable releases of LibreOffice. The release is expected on August 18 or 19.

De mest merkbare endringene:

• Initial support for GTK4 has been added;
• OpenGL rendering code has been removed in favor of using Skia/Vulkan;
• A pop-up interface for searching settings and commands in the style of MS Office has been added, shown on top of the current image (heads-up display, HUD);
• A section for managing Fontwork font effects has been added to the sidebar;
• The main Notebookbar panel has implemented scrolling capabilities for items in the style selection block;
• Performance optimization has been carried out in Calc;
• In Writer, support for hyperlinks in tables of contents and indices has been added, bibliography handling improved, a new 'gutter' field type for adding additional margins has been implemented, and the ability to place a background image both within the visible boundaries of the document and in the text boundaries has been provided;
• The template collection in Impress has been updated;
• Font caching has been improved for faster text rendering;
• Import and export filters have been improved, addressing numerous issues when importing and exporting WMF/EMF, SVG, DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX formats;
• Indledende support til kompilering i WebAssembly er tilføjet.

Kilde: opennet.ru