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- Menu item blog post (Miklos Vajna; Collabora) ▸ ▸ now updates the preview of OLE objects
- Various border improvements around tables and paragraphs to make them more Word-compatible blog post (Miklos Vajna; Collabora)
- Fixed Index or Table of Contents generation when tdf#130318 (Andreas Heinisch; Emanuele Gissi, CNVVF) ▸ is set to in the Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography dialogue ( ▸ ). The generated entries start from the current chapter level, instead of the previously hardwired level 2
- Writer now supports clearing breaks from Word for improvement layout fidelity blog post (Miklos Vajna; Collabora)
- Accessibility check dialog (core commit 61fed0c4 (Nick Wingate; Collabora) ▸ ) is now rendered asynchronously
- For documents that are loaded read-only, Writer will now allow to view tracked changes, both via the dialog from core commit 82e789bf (Michael Stahl, allotropia) ▸ ▸ and in the sidebar.
- Tracked footnote deletion and insertion are visible in the footnote area tdf#85610 (László Németh, NISZ)
- Handle the "hang" baseline OpenType property, allowing text of different sizes to align to the hagning baseline. tdf#104930 (Mark Hung)
- Writer now supports rich text and checkbox content controls from Word natively blog post (Miklos Vajna; Collabora)
Calc
- Calc now supports and uses 16384 columns (blog post) . (Luboš Luňák, Collabora)
- Added COUNTA, PRODUCT, STDEV, STDEVP, VAR, VARP functions to drop-down autosum widget on Formula bar tdf#139602 (Dhiraj Holden)
- Put text in selected cell into hyperlink item Text when you use the Hyperlink dialog (Ctrl + K). If the user selects an entire cell by a single click, and inserts an URL via the hyperlink dialog, the entire content of the corresponding cell will be replaced instead of inserting a duplicate, or appending the URL. If the cell contains more than one URL or an URL including some additional text within the cell, the hyperlink dialog will only preselect the text field when opening. If this is not the case, it fill the URL field as well. tdf#80043 (Andreas Heinisch)
- The height of the formula bar is now stored into the document. tdf#99708 (Samuel Mehrbrodt, allotropia)
- Improve Move/Copy sheet dialog: OK button caption is changed according to the command chosen (Move or Copy). tdf#139464 (Laurent Balland)
Performance
- Improved performance when many columns contain data (blog post) . (Luboš Luňák, Collabora)
- Improved performance of functions such as COUNTIF, SUMIFS and VLOOKUP, especially with unsorted data tdf#139444 tdf#144777 tdf#146546 (Luboš Luňák, Collabora)
- Faster recalculation in some documents with many formulas tdf#119083 (Luboš Luňák, Collabora)
- A huge CSV file speed opening was improved tdf#94677 (Luboš Luňák, Collabora)
- Improved performance of Excel export filter tdf#95346 tdf#117366 tdf#126326 tdf#133749 tdf#140893 (Luboš Luňák, Collabora)
- Improved performance when loading spreadsheets that require recalculation core commit c315a2f7 core commit 64cb1d10 (Luboš Luňák, Collabora)
Impress & Draw
- Start of document themes in Impress: shape text blog post (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
Base
Chart
Math
Core / General
- Added support for WebP images import/export tdf#114532 (Luboš Luňák, Collabora)
- Now it uses libtiff library for TIFF images support (Caolán McNamara, Red Hat)
- Made dialog for naming a new color asynchronous core commit 7741b21f (Nick Wingate, Collabora)
- The configuration now remembers whether recent documents were opened read-only or editable, and opening via core commit 404c51f3 (Michael Stahl, allotropia) ▸ or the Start Center will open them in the same mode as the last time.
- Added support for EMZ/WMZ files tdf#103954 (Paris Oplopoios)
Lighting of extruded custom shapes
Enhancements for lighting extruded custom shapes to make rendering more compatible with MS Office binary formats and interpret more ODF attributes. tdf#145700 (Regina Henschel)
- Wrong interpretation of the z-direction of lights is corrected. Especially a center lighting from observer to object works now. The position of specular high lights on rounded surfaces is same as in MS Office now.
- The item "Metal" is replaced by items "Metal ODF" and "Metal MS compatible" in submenu "Surface" in toolbar "3D-Settings". The latter is not usable in strict ODF file format "ODF 1.3". In preset "Metal ODF" the specular color is Gray as specified in ODF. In preset "Metal MS compatible" the specular color is the shape fill color or the extrusion color respectively, similar to rendering in MS Office.
- The service
EnhancedCustomShapeExtrusion
in API is extended with a new attributeMetalType
. It has the valueMetalODF
orMetalMSCompatible
. This attribute is used in surface preset "Metal MS compatible". - The ODF attribute
draw:extrusion-shininess
is interpreted now. This attribute is similar to the setting "Specular Intensity" in the "Material" tab of the "3D Effects" dialog of 3D objects. The attribute has no direct UI, but is available as attributeShininess
in serviceEnhancedCustomShapeExtrusion
in the API. - The ODF attribute
draw:extrusion-diffusion
is interpreted now. Only its default value "0%" is not interpretated, because already existing shapes have this attribute not set but expect a value of 100%. For existing shapes you can force to write the attribute to file by toggling extrusion off and back on. The attribute is used in preset surface "Metal MS compatible". The attribute has no direct UI, but is available as attributeDiffusion
in serviceEnhancedCustomShapeExtrusion
in the API. A value smaller than 100% reduces the rendered brightness of the object. - The ODF attributes
draw:extrusion-first-light-harsh
anddraw:extrusion-second-light-harsh
are interpreted now. The lights are rendered soft by distributing parts of the light intensity to four light directions around the original light directions during rendering. The lighting presets in submenu "Lighting" in the toolbar "3D-Settings" set the attribute compatible to MS Office. The attribute has no direct UI, but is available as attributeFirstLightHarsh
andSecondLightHarsh
in serviceEnhancedCustomShapeExtrusion
in the API. - The implementation of ODF attribute
draw:extrusion-specularity
is adapted to the corresponding shape property in MS Office binary formats. This attribute corresponds to the setting "Specular Color" in the "Material" tab of the "3D Effects" dialog of 3D objects. Only that not abitrary colors but only variants of Gray are used. The attribute has no direct UI, but is available as attributeSpecularity
in serviceEnhancedCustomShapeExtrusion
in the API. A value of "0%" forces the first light to be not specular, which produces a matte surface in rendering the object. That is used in surface preset "Matte".
Performance
- Improved text layout performance for cases like PDF export, document loading and others, more info in the blog post. (Luboš Luňák, Collabora)
LibreOffice Help
Filters
DOCX import/export filters
- DOCX: import textboxes (with tables, images etc.) in group shapes tdf#66039 (Attila Bakos, NISZ)
Unlock protected change tracking by password verification
Unlock protected change tracking of DOCX documents by mandatory password verification tdf#128744 tdf#106843 (László Németh, NISZ)
- clicking on icon of Track Changes toolbar (or ▸ ▸ ) asks for password verification instead of showing only a warning message before unlocking without the password;
- On page of ▸ dialog window, button accepts the correct password with disabling record changes instead of rejecting the correct password.
PPTX import/export filters
- PPTX export: fixed export of embedded video files tdf#53970 (Tünde Tóth, NISZ)
- PPTX import: fixed import of linked media files. Linked media files were imported as images in documents created with Impress after PPTX export. tdf#53970 (Tünde Tóth, NISZ)
- PPTX: add "glue points" to some basic shapes (ellipse, triangle, right triangle, trapezoid, parallelogram, diamond, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon). Note: PPTX import doesn't import connectors connected to the glue points – only ODP export keeps them for the planned editing, i.e. moving the connected shapes without losing the connecting lines and arrows. tdf#147459 (Tibor Nagy, NISZ)
RTF filter import/export
- RTF filter improvements tdf#148515 tdf#95706 tdf#139948 tdf#116358 tdf#111851 tdf#104390 tdf#118047 tdf#131234 (Vasily Melenchuk, CIB/allotropia)
PDF export
- Improved PDF export options in the command-line blog post (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
- Field type of Numeric, Currency, Date and Time forms are exported to PDF tdf#105972 (Xisco Fauli, TDF)
HTML export
- Export encoding (character set) configuration is dropped from Options|Load/Save|HTML Compatibility, HTML is now always exported using UTF-8 encoding tdf#148413 (Mike Kaganski, Collabora)
EMF/WMF import/export
- Added support for Miter Limit for EMF+ format tdf#142261 (Bartosz Kosiorek)
- Added support for individual line endings for EMF+ format tdf#143875, tdf#55058 (Bartosz Kosiorek)
- Fixed holes in lines created with LINETO for EMF/WMF tdf#89331 (Bartosz Kosiorek)
- Added Z compressed graphic formats support for EMF/WMF (.emz and .wmz file formats) tdf#103954 (Paris Oplopoios)
- Use variable types according to EMF+ documentation tdf#103859 (Bartosz Kosiorek)
TIFF import
- TIFF: import filter rewritten to import via libtiff in order to support many more variants (Caolán McNamara, Red Hat, Inc. and Julien Nabet)
GUI
- The Navigator can now scroll to the item on selection. Enable this with the expert option NavigateOnSelect at org.openoffice.Office.Writer > Navigator tdf#131063 (Jim Raykowski)
- Start Center thumbnail rendering improved tdf#134065, tdf#147998, core commit b70d17b0 (Mike Kaganski, Collabora)
- Search field for the Extension Manager tdf#126672 (Samuel Mehrbrodt, allotropia)
Localization
New languages/locales with locale data
Available as default document language and for locale specific formatting.
- Pennsylvania Dutch {pdc-US}. tdf#146602 (Peter K. Zacharias, Pennsylvania Dutch Education Corporation; Eike Rathke, Red Hat)
- Aranese {oc-ES}. tdf#147053 (Javier Torres Fernández; Eike Rathke, Red Hat)
Improvements to proofing tools and language support
- Added Central Kurdish(ckb) Spell Checker & Dictionary. commit 1, core commit 5727a12a (jwtiyar nariman; Olivier Hallot, TDF)
Scripting
VBA Support
- Added support for Application.WindowState, commit (Tomaž Vajngerl, Collabora)
- Added support for Application.GetOpenFilename tdf#118246 (Tomaž Vajngerl, Collabora)
- Export VBA-Project using detected charset on import tdf#75263 (Andreas Heinisch)
Feature Removal / Deprecation
- FTP support is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
- In the SDK, the tools
idlc
andregmerge
(using the legacy type registry format) are deprecated and will be removed in a future version, in favor ofunoidl-write
(using the incompatible new type registry format internally introduced in LibreOffice 4.1). core commit 40f2aee6
Platform Compatibility
Mac
- LibreOffice 7.4 requires macOS 10.13 or newer to run.
- Due to Apple's policy regarding C++ standard library features, the minimum macOS version requirement will be raised in the future like so:
- release in Feb 2023 → 10.14 Mojave
- release in Aug 2023 → 10.15 Catalina
API Changes
- The service
EnhancedCustomShapeExtrusion
in API is extended with a new attributeMetalType
. It has the valueMetalODF
orMetalMSCompatible
. The attribute is not usable in file format "ODF 1.3". For implementation context see Lighting of extruded custom shapes. - The service SpreadsheetViewSettings has a new property
FormulaBarHeight
allowing to read/set the height of the Calc formula bar. core commit d0cacf09 (Samuel Mehrbrodt, allotropia)
Jump Lists
Under Windows, it is now possible to customize the Jump Lists via UNO API. Documentation. (Samuel Mehrbrodt, allotropia)