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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: ▸ ▸ (Tamás Zolnai) tdf#169806
- The color of the grid can be changed: ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸
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New baseline grid feature in Writer
- 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
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Fixed page line-spacing formatting within frames.
- Displaying field names in Writer now shows a description of the field type in the case of document statistics. (Andreas Heinisch) tdf#45048
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Field names now include a subtype description.
- 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
- EMF+ Use signed integer type for Point in EmfPlusFillPolygon tdf#103859
- Reset GDI trackers on EMF+ GetDC record tdf#119973 tdf#160063
- EMF Fix font scaling and orientation in GM_COMPATIBLE tdf#138087 tdf#142548
- EMF+ Use Frame size and DPI instead Bound tdf#59814 tdf#168886
- EMF+ Fix scale and transformation of DrawImagePoints Metafile (Bartosz Kosiorek) tdf#166084 tdf#59814
- EMF+ Add support for opening SigmaPlot exported images (Bartosz Kosiorek) tdf#138087
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SigmaPlot image in MS Office
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SigmaPlot image in LibreOffice before fix: Labels have wrong orientation, bitmaps are shifted
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SigmaPlot image in LibreOffice after fix
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
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Style previews in notebookbar and sidebar dropdown
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
OfficeBeanexample (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

