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This is an in-progress scratch-pad of notes to build release notes from as and when we release. Please do not list features that are to be shipped already in the 25.2 release! Please do not add wish-list features that you hope will be implemented, but only what actually is implemented already.

After you add a release note, please also add this text into the Whiteboard field of the respective Bugzilla report, referencing the appropriate LibreOffice version: inReleaseNotes:xx.y

What does a good feature look like here:

  • It has a short description, and a way for a busy reviewer to find and play with the feature. Target someone who is extremely busy, and knows little-to-nothing about the product. So if a user interface element is key to the feature, be very explicit about where it is, e.g. using a menu path that leads to it: Format ▸ Character ▸ Position [tab] ▸ ‘90 degrees’.
  • It credits the main authors who did the work (add them in parentheses after the feature description) and references the relevant Bugzilla ticket.
  • If the feature can be shown off with a sample file – particularly for new import-able features, it would be wonderful to have a link to a test file that we can use to show that feature off to best effect. That really helps us to make good screenshots to show off the features, and allows reviewers to do their testing.

For more details, see the guidelines.

Thanks in advance for your help filling this out!


Writer

  • Move line hyphenation rule is added to choose whether or not to hyphenate the last line words of the pages and move the whole lines to the next pages instead. (László Németh) tdf#165354
  • First and secondary keys are shown in the tooltips of index fields. (Andreas Heinisch) tdf#143157
  • For Heading entries, Navigator now displays a tooltip with the outline word and character count that includes all sub-outline words and characters. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#163646
  • A command was added to insert a paragraph break before a table. (Ujjawal Kumar) tdf#149825
  • Scrolling behaviour when selecting was improved. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#50743
  • A dialog was added for copying the content of a field from a read-only document. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#164318
  • A new field that displays the page count for a range until the next numbering reset was added. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#71583
  • A command (with the shortcut Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + F2) was added for converting fields into plain text. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#45946

Accessibility

  • There is now an accessibility check for links and references in header/footer. (Balázs Varga, allotropia) tdf#164797

Performance

  • A certain heavy DOC file inspired optimisations to the loading of language data and laying out of graphical objects. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#141415
  • Loading Writer documents with change tracked moves is now faster. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#162343
  • Undo handling was optimised, making the deletion of very large Writer tables much faster. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#136238
  • Loading of Writer tables containing bookmarks was made faster. (Mike Kaganski, Collabora) tdf#165918

Calc

  • Text Import dialog, that is used in CSV import, now has Always show on import checkbox (enabled by default). This checkbox controls, if the dialog will be shown on CSV import, or if the saved (configured on last dialog use) settings will be used automatically. When the checkbox is unchecked, and the dialog is normally not shown, it is possible to show it (once), using a new Edit filter settings checkbox in the File Open dialog, which works the same way as long-existing respective checkbox in File Save dialog: it gets enabled, when a file format, that has configurable settings, is selected in the filter frop-down list. (Shardul Vikram Singh) tdf#74580
  • Conditional formatting operators in icon sets can now be customised. (Ahmed Hamed) tdf#61313
  • A "Clear AutoFilter" option was added to the context menu of Calc cells. (Ujjawal Kumar) tdf#164322
  • Text Import dialog is now only shown for Paste Special actions to avoid unnecessary interruptions. (Shardul Vikram Singh) tdf#65872

New functions

  • CHOOSECOLS function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#151000
  • CHOOSEROWS function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150999
  • DROP function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150998
  • EXPAND function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#151001
  • HSTACK function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150868
  • TAKE function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150997
  • TOCOL function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150879
  • TOROW function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150878
  • VSTACK function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150867
  • WRAPCOLS function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150881
  • WRAPROWS function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150880

Performance

  • Speed of rendering XLSX files with lots of conditional formatting was improved. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) 185df5e6
  • Speed of opening XLSX files with lots of conditional formatting was greatly improved. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#134864
  • Speed of opening XLSX files with lots of graphical objects was significantly improved. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#130326 tdf#150623
  • Row height calculation when switching Calc sheets was optimised, greatly reducing the waiting time in complex spreadsheets. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#150623
  • Switching Calc sheets with lots of drawing objects is now much faster. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#131595
  • Spellchecking performance in multi-language spreadsheets was improved (Caolán McNamara, Noel Grandin; Collabora) 9a1f131a 3c7156da

Impress

  • Ctrl + scrollwheel changes how many slides are displayed per row in the Slide Sorter view. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#117946

Draw

Base

Chart

Math

Core / General

  • A new application-wide Viewer mode is implemented. In it, all files are opened in read-only mode; all editing tools are disabled. The mode is controlled by the new "ViewerAppMode" expert configuration. (Mike Kaganski, Collabora) tdf#62845
  • On Windows, the automatic (“MAR”) update mechanism now only registers its update_service.exe as a Windows “LibreOffice Maintenance Service” (that allows to do updates with administrator privileges) when LibreOffice is installed to C:\Program Files. (Stephan Bergmann, allotropia) tdf#164225 tdf#162780
  • Background image in the document now visible as a bitmap thumbnail in Page Style > Area > Bitmap. (Justin Luth) tdf#163812

Filters

  • Autofilters are now imported from MS Excel XML files. (Kohei Yoshida) tdf#154311

User Interface

  • Edit Field dialog can be opened in read-only documents. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#164318
  • Formatting toolbar is visible in sections that are marked as editable in read-only documents. (Tibor Nagy, allotropia) tdf#146549
  • Currency dropdown no longer requires clicking an OK button. (Szymon Kłos, Collabora) tdf#165589
  • Quick Find bar now has an option to match diacritics. (Johann Lorber, Linagora) tdf#163616
  • A toggle button to show the password in password input dialogs was added. (Karthik Godha) tdf#146947
  • Toggling rotation mode for a selected object can now be done with a single click in Writer and Calc and not only in Impress and Draw. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#90293

Accessibility

Changes in UI strings

Scripting

  • Ship pip with internal python. (Xisco Fauli, TDF) tdf#162786

Android Viewer

Localization

New languages/locales with locale data

Improvements to proofing tools and language support

  • Spell check dictionaries and hyphenation rules were added for the languages: Punjabi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Kannada, and Assamese.
  • Spell check dictionaries were added for the languages: Tamil, and Marathi.
  • Spell check dictionaries were updated for the languages: Hindi, Mongolian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.
  • Marathi thesaurus was added.
  • Slovenian thesaurus was updated. (Martin Srebotnjak, OdprtiTezaver)

LibreOffice Help

Help pages for new Calc functions (Olivier Hallot - TDF): VSTACK HSTACK TOCOL TOROW WRAPCOLS WRAPROWS CHOOSECOLS CHOOSEROWS EXPAND DROP TAKE

Help content updates and fixes:

Feature Removal / Deprecation

Platform Compatibility

Support for Windows 7 and 8/8.1 was removed.

API Changes

  • The XTiledRenderable UNO interface was removed. ccefc5e5

Configuration Changes