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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 26.2 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

  • Paragraph directions for RTL text are now automatically detected when opening or pasting plain text (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#157037
  • Read and re-export "hidden" and "show in gallery" properties of styles in the DOCX files. Allowing to filter list of styles to only meaningful ones. (Szymon Kłos, Collabora) 5bee91d5
  • Start is now the default paragraph alignment setting in new documents. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#169035
  • Changing paragraph directions no longer mirrors alignment of left- or right-aligned paragraphs. For paragraphs that are automatically aligned based on writing direction, please use start or end alignment. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#165206
  • Improved deleted commented text ranges in Writer's DOCX filter blog post (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
  • New option added for displaying the baseline grid for page line-spacing: View ▸ Grids and Helplines ▸ Display Baseline Grid (Tamás Zolnai) tdf#169806
    • The color of the grid can be changed: Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Appearance ▸ Customizations ▸ Baseline grid
  • Page line-spacing now works properly inside Writer frames. The text within the frame is correctly aligned with the baseline grid. (Tamás Zolnai) tdf#93785
  • Displaying field names in Writer now shows a description of the field type in the case of document statistics. (Andreas Heinisch) tdf#45048
  • Plumbing to compare documents side-by-side blog post (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
  • Show Formatting Marks now also makes format characters for bidirectional text visible. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#63929
  • Paragraph Composer: The new Paragraph Composer balances word spacing in the consecu­tive lines, fixing fundamental incompleteness of the “greedy” single line composer of the word proces­sors. (Lazlo Nemeth, tdf#38159, blog post)

Calc

  • Data Validity allows now to silently reject invalid values (also pre 24.2 behavior restored) (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#160096
  • Pointers to sheet names consisting only of non-ASCII characters separated by '.' are now imported correctly from xlsx documents (Vladislav Tarakanov, Amin Irgaliev) tdf#100154
  • A Shuffle command was added for randomizing the order of cells in a range. (Tomaž Vajngerl, Collabora) tdf#158196
  • Typing RTL text into an empty cell will now automatically set the cell direction to RTL. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#65563

Impress

  • Transitioning from a numbered list to a bulleted list is now possible blog post (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
  • Impress & Draw now support multiple page sizes in a document blog post (Mohit Marathe, Collabora) tdf#49787
  • Embedded templates: both 16:9 and 4:3 ratio are now proposed for some templates: Blueprint Plans, Beehive, DNA, Lights, Nature Illustration (16:9 ratio is now the default). It avoids stretching of background decor when changing page size ratio. (Laurent Balland) tdf#170789

Draw

Base

Chart

  • LibreOffice now provides rudimentary support for import and re-export of new ("chartex") chart types that can be created in Microsoft Office and saved in OOXML formats. Chart types with this basic round-trip support include box-whisker, funnel, Pareto, sunburst, treemap, and waterfall charts. Region map charts contain extensive geographic information that is not supported, so while the chart type is preserved through round-trip, little substantial content is. No support exists yet for displaying or editing these chart types. Instead, a message is displayed to indicate that the chart type is not yet supported in LibreOffice. (Kurt Nordback, Collabora) tdf#165742

Math

  • Named functions and operators were added for the N’Ko and Adlam scripts. (Neil S. Patel) tdf#170259
  • Left-pointing vector arrows and harpoons were added for RTL formulas. (Neil S. Patel) tdf#158727

Core / General

  • LibreOffice now accepts font names in other languages, in addition to the current UI language. Documents created with other UI languages will now display with the author-intended fonts, as long as those fonts are installed on the system. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#63011
  • Keyboard shortcuts can be configured for an individual document using the keyboard customization dialog. (Neil Roberts, TDF) tdf#94522

Filters

EMF, EMF+

  • Implement EMR_SMALLTEXTOUT (Andras Timar) tdf#142226
  • Add support for opening documents generated by OpenText, by proper handling multiple SetPageTransform records, according to EMF specification (Bartosz Kosiorek) tdf#168227 tdf#168661
  • EMF+ Implement BrushTypeTextureFill for bitmaps (Bartosz Kosiorek) tdf#129342 tdf#170985

User Interface

  • Add more paper sizes [A0, A1, A2, B0, B1, B2, B3) to the Page style dialog (and also to the page sidebar panel) (Samuel Mehrbrodt, Collabora) tdf#106889
  • Use deterministic list of styles which is unified across notebookbar and sidebar. It doesn't hide one standard style when you use new custom one - avoiding impression of random collection. (Szymon Kłos, Collabora) tdf#108239

Accessibility

Changes in UI strings

Scripting

Python

Users can create and edit Python scripts directly from Macro manager dialog without APSO installing, the buttons are active for actions now. The Python scripts will be opened in standard text editor on all OS. (Neil Roberts, TDF) tdf#56289

Android Viewer

Localization

LibreOffice Help

Feature Removal / Deprecation

  • Removed obsolete Java Applet configuration settings from NetAccess and Security registry schemas. (Shlok Kanani) tdf#162563
  • Removed the obsolete OfficeBean example (which was based on Java applet functionality) from the SDK. (Stephan Bergmann, Collabora) 05ba63c6
  • Obsolete Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic fonts (v.1.102, SIL) are no longer bundled. Note: In case you still need these fonts, they can be downloaded from our site. Alternatively, you can try to migrate to new Gentium and Gentium Book fonts, they can be downloaded from SIL site. (Xisco Fauli, TDF) tdf#167563

Platform Compatibility

API Changes

  • Removed the legacy Profile API and replaced it with a manual .ini file parser. (Shlok Kanani) tdf#49602

Configuration Changes