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Writer
- Content controls: added a new plain text type. blog post (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
- Content controls: added a new combo box type and PDF export. blog post (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
- Content controls: added titles and tags. blog post (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
- Now tabs can be edited for multiple paragraphs with different settings at a time. Tabs dialogue ( ▸ ▸ ) is available even when multiple paragraphs are selected which has different settings. 9f7b3e2c47ff56c9529b3359e2459130ee922808 (Pranam Lashkari)
- Improved kashida insertion position validation, to prevent inserting kashida between contextually substituted glyphs breaking word shape. 9a6b673699fa925f5d87e47d4b359f37ad27260e (Khaled Hosny)
- Correctly calculate text caret position inside ligatures, and use caret positions from the font when available. tdf#30731 (Khaled Hosny)
- Fix broken colored Arabic text when enabling Show Formatting Marks. tdf#150726 (Khaled Hosny)
- It is now possible to define a custom color for Grammar mistakes in the Application Colors dialog ( ▸ ▸ ▸ ). 0aa61812a87ac466bea4b35cba75a4e986be8c7f (Rafael Lima)
- Autotexts created using "New (text only)" no longer insert a new line at the end of the autotext. The currently embedded autotexts have been adjusted accordingly by explicitly adding a new line add the end of the text. User-created autotexts, relying on the trailing new line, should be re-created including the trailing empty paragraph. tdf#53023 (Andreas Heinisch)
Spell checking
- Moving text cursor Up/Down triggers pending spell checking of the last modified word. tdf#124603 (László Németh, NISZ)
- Spell checking of plain words of hyperlinks tdf#45949 (László Németh, based on tdf#126657 (Khaled Hosny) and tdf#152492)
Tables
- Better column deletion when it intersects with merged cells. tdf#46733 (Justin Luth)
- Allow table row/column selection, if last cell starts with a nested table. tdf#47979, tdf#151478 (László Németh, NISZ)
- Allow tracked table row/column deletion, if last cell starts with a nested table. tdf#150976, tdf#151657 (László Németh, NISZ)
Bookmarks
Bookmark editing in Insert Bookmark dialog window
- Bookmark text content can be edited in the dialog. aa6ec3f79607478213272283b7eb17ec2116173c (Michael Stahl, allotropia)
- The Bookmark dialog accessed from ▸ ▸ ▸ now opens with the clicked bookmark already selected. 9cc6acce941ea9306f5c2aa81bb06ac28a7f7f45 (Michael Stahl, allotropia)
- Hidden _Toc and _Ref bookmarks imported from OOXML are shown as Hidden in the dialog, allowing sorting the not hidden (user-defined) bookmarks before them by a single click on header Hidden. tdf#150955 (László Németh, NISZ)
Colored bookmarks for metadata visualization
Show visible marks in custom color defined in bookmark metadata. tdf#150717 (László Németh)
See also Custom color metadata field shading, introduced in LibreOffice 7.2.
Bookmark accessibility
Screen readers get text equivalent of visible bookmarks. tdf#150947 (László Németh)
In the form of
#BookmarkName1 Bookmark #BookmarkName2 Bookmark Start #BookmarkName2 Bookmark End
Where Bookmark, Start and End are localized words.
Bookmark visualization
Various improvements of bookmark visibility (see ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ . (László Németh, NISZ)
Note: this is a continuation to Michael Stahl’s fix for tdf#45589 ("create and paint text portions for bookmarks"), introduced in LibreOffice 7.0.
- ⌶-shape point bookmark (The previous shape, a single vertical line was overlapped with visible page margin at beginning of the paragraphs, also it was very similar to the NBSP and narrow NBSP shading.) tdf#150791
- ][-shape (i.e. double) marks for neighboring bookmark ranges (instead of a single vertical line, which could not be distinguished from point bookmark symbol previously). tdf#150790
- All bookmarks at the same character position are visible now, e.g. instead of a single |, neighboring bookmarks with point bookmarks are shown e.g. as ] ⌶ [ or ] ] ⌶ ⌶ [ [
- Do not show visible marks for hidden _Toc and _Ref bookmarks imported from OOXML, like Microsoft Office does. tdf#150956
- Multiple start marks of range bookmarks positioned before the character position, multiple end marks of range bookmarks positioned after the character position, i.e. single type boundary marks are there outside of the bookmark text:
some |text| here
[[ ]]
- Neighboring end and start marks are centered around the character position:
|text1|text2| [ ]] [[ ]
- Marks of the same character position are sorted based on their type: ], ⌶, [, e.g.
] ] ⌶ ⌶ [ [ [
- Same type marks of the same character position are sorted based on their color:
[c1 [c2 [c3 ... c3] c2] c1]
Accessibility
- Images, embedded objects and text frames can now be marked as decorative, which allows assistive technology to ignore them in exported PDFs. (Michael Stahl, allotropia) tdf#143311 31084ebb59093be7dfe5ab53a20fdb3bcfde34b6
- Hyperlinks, table of content and other indices keep their language, and with this, their accessibility. tdf#39794 tdf#145104 (fixed in tdf#126657 by Khaled Hosny, follow-up fixes: tdf#152492 and tdf#45949 by László Németh)
Accessibility checker
- Add several accessibility checker rules. (Paris Oplopoios, Collabora) b45867766184ad1200df4183dab537fac9e83ea2 f9eb59a59723275f7057419d2c05393ac2781972 f03d285d51ba5d5b30e9f8a2b1165270140d5a20 2c44f57b3f59012057a7a0a4d912648d362cf6f3 de02e5560168060af0b0c9be847af01c4fadec0b 043f0b53aa1734af17fd12a5b07075d965f28730 a1ae31bd248ab62a0614f3a25f1abfcc214ff431 766151ff6ec759563583abfa43f5bb3755ee2603 5c8934809ac60488d6160e27ff5962350c612a09 3c0be5564afe1b9cc843a49aba88b72af74c43ab
- Add Rescan button to Accessibility Check dialog. (Samuel Mehrbrodt, allotropia) tdf#148999
- Make Accessibility Check dialog non-modal. (Samuel Mehrbrodt, allotropia) tdf#148971
- Automatic (Online) Accessibility Check has been added, which scans for accessibility issues while the user is editing the document. The accessibility status is shown in the status bar. You can enable it in the main menu ( ▸ ). Currently it is only available when experimental mode is enabled, as it doesn't take all document objects into account. (Tomaž Vajngerl, Collabora)
Calc
- Cell input with leading ' apostrophe in cells that are not formatted as Text was changed to always strip the first apostrophe and force the remainder as text content. Previously, the user had to know (or guess) whether an input could be converted to a numeric type (number, date, ...) and prefix only that to force text, but not prefix a textual type that could not be converted, which was confusing and bad UX. The handling is not changed for cells already formatted as Text, where every input is continued to be accepted literally as content and a leading apostrophe is not removed. tdf#149665 (Eike Rathke, Red Hat)
- Add support for Kamenický and Mazovia encodings. tdf#150877 (Stephan Bergmann, Red Hat)
- Conditional formatting's begins-with/ends-with/contains are now case-insensitive like the rest of the conditions were. tdf#123990 (Justin Luth, Collabora)
- Preserve tab characters and line-breaks in cell contents. tdf#75702 (Justin Luth, Collabora)
- ▸ ▸ now always works even when first row or column are not visible. tdf#112641 (Justin Luth, Collabora)
- Paste Special of cells now remembers last used settings between sessions. tdf#69750 (Siddhant Chaudhary)
- Searching for a term in the Function Wizard now matches the function descriptions as well as their names. tdf#146781 (Andreas Heinisch)
Default “spell out” number and currency formats
Number format dialog windows of Calc and Writer got default NatNum12 ("spell out") format codes. tdf#115007 (László Németh, FSF.hu)
- Spell out numbers and currencies;
- in 71 locales of 38 languages;
- based on libnumbertext 1.0.11;
- NatNum12 title case is fixed for English language: lowercase “and” and title case “-Five” e.g. in “One U.S. Dollar and Twenty-Five Cents”.
Impress & Draw
- Impress now supports cropped video for media shapes. blog post (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
- Fix bug causing EMF graphics to appear blurry. tdf#150888 (Paris Oplopoios, Collabora)
- The presenter console supports running as a normal window instead of fullscreen, with a setting in ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ (tdf#33495). This means it can be used in a single monitor too, sharing the presentation in a video-conferencing tool. (tdf#92717) (Daniel Lohmann)
- Objects can be drag-and-dropped in the navigator, allowing reordering and moving them in and out of groups. tdf#145359 (Jim Raykowski)
Table Design
- Added basic support for modifying table styles, and creating new ones. Modified styles are saved into documents, and can be shared via templates. This function can be accessed by right-clicking on a design in the Table Design Sidebar panel. f23d3661ab04601650db95f846081317fc06801d, 553cfbfc9e74a03fe02a58e9aa6076fc1dddeb7b, 5d683e8f6c9e677d7b6bc829a4ce9ee384f4fbd8 (Maxim Monastirsky)
- Added a new set of default table styles. daab698b346e5e40b67f1e15c796c4e399ccaf8a (Rafael Lima)
Base
Chart
- Data tables are now supported in Charts. See blog post for furter details (Tomaž Vajngerl, Collabora)
Math
- Elements pane from left side of Math's window was moved to Sidebar. tdf#150489 (Mike Kaganski, Collabora)
Core / General
- Added support for rotate and zoom gestures when using touchpads. (Povilas Kanapickas)
- Allow searching for combining marks from so-called complex scripts. tdf#91764 (Khaled Hosny)
- Support font embedding on macOS. tdf#72456 (Khaled Hosny)
- Fix disabled spellchecking and language-sensitive text layout (e.g. digit replacement) in table of contents and hyper link text. tdf#126657, tdf#145104 (Khaled Hosny)
Design
- New application and MIME type icons tdf#132398 (Galdam Jitsu)
Accessibility
- Restored automatic detection of HighContrast (HC) mode while providing user ability to disable in ▸ ▸ ▸ . tdf#151522 (Caolán McNamara, Red Hat)
Text Layout
- Improve kashida insertion by making the insertion positions explicit to avoid unwanted and spurious kashida insertion. tdf#104921, tdf#87731, tdf#106309, tdf#108604, tdf#112849, tdf#114257, tdf#127176, tdf#145647, tdf#146199 (Khaled Hosny)
- Fix kashida position when inserted after a letter with a combining mark. tdf#139627 (Khaled Hosny)
- Fix gaps inserted instead of kashida with some fonts. tdf#106653 (Khaled Hosny)
- Fix justification of text containing spacing combining marks (e.g. in Malayalam). tdf#150665 (Khaled Hosny)
- Disable ligatures when character spacing is set. tdf#66819 (Khaled Hosny)
- Correctly enable variable fonts variation setting during text layout, as well as font metrics. tdf#103596 (Khaled Hosny, Caolán McNamara / Red Hat)
- Use underline size and position as well as strike-through size and position values from the font when available ba03e033d1be4bc49f2a8d6afbeecd381507b242, and make overline size the same as underline size 8da2560a8ddb530abe4fb72b59ef6e18ce219d80. (Khaled Hosny)
- Use the same skew angle for artificial (synthetic) italic text across graphics backends and PDF export. f88e7632b745a9b18af36cd901399c40e8b7378f (Khaled Hosny)
- Improve glyph positioning of artificial italic text, especially combining marks. 1f9b2a7057a519e0ea750875ac439129f1d3df87 (Khaled Hosny)
Edit Engine
- Sync kashida insertion algorithm with Writer one to include fixes and enhancements from Writer that other LibreOffice components were missing. tdf#137528 (Khaled Hosny)
- Fix bad Arabic letter spacing when text starts with left-to-right characters. tdf#103492 (Khaled Hosny)
- Fix gaps in justified Arabic text when the font does not have usable kashida glyph. tdf#137528 (Khaled Hosny)
- Correctly calculate text caret position inside ligatures, and use caret positions from the font when available. tdf#83581 (Khaled Hosny)
LibreOffice Help
Filters
doc
- Re-allow .doc files to be renamed as .dot. tdf#125216 (Justin Luth, Collabora)
VBA Support
- Added support for WordBasic.ScreenUpdating. a8209c52d6daeb00ed85d5c705ec84c9603e2f3e (Justin Luth, Collabora)
- Added support for WordBasic.MsgBox. 55628d6b258f77eac8a34a1a8f6bbcbf09fd97cc (Justin Luth, Collabora)
- Run AutoNew, AutoOpen, AutoClose events properly in Writer and Calc. tdf#148806 (Justin Luth, Collabora)
- Added FormFields and ContentControls support for managing form objects. tdf#151548 (Justin Luth, Collabora)
- Support embedding color (e.g. Emoji) fonts using color layers (using COLR/CPAL OpenType tables). tdf#104403 (Khaled Hosny)
- Support embedding color (e.g. Emoji) fonts using color bitmaps (using CBLC/CBDT or sbix OpenType tables). tdf#121327 (Khaled Hosny)
- Support embedding variable fonts and apply font variations to glyph shapes. tdf#108497 (Khaled Hosny)
- Correct set Postscript name when embedding for some broken fonts. tdf#138325 (Khaled Hosny)
- Fix invalid PDF font subsets when subsetting blank glyphs. tdf#112152 (Khaled Hosny)
- Fix visual artifacts in glyphs that use fractional point coordinates. tdf#126242 (Khaled Hosny)
- Fix missing accent chars in glyphs that use deprecated arguments to CFF endchar operator. tdf#123234 (Khaled Hosny)
- Apply artificial italic to fallback fonts. tdf#102914 (Khaled Hosny)
- When exporting to PDF, you can now choose to export comments in the page margin. tdf#77650 (Samuel Mehrbrodt, allotropia)
- When inserting a picture and using PDF as a source file, now it is possible to use larger files. a5c1cbcbb506e1c33c7e80673bfc01a34c834ed5 (Szymon Kłos, Collabora)
SVG
- Remove "ghost" lines (extra semi-transparent white outline) of semi-transparent shapes tdf#149800 (László Németh)
GUI
General changes
- Support for dark and high contrast operating system themes on Windows, macOS and Linux was greatly improved. (Caolán McNamara / Red Hat, Rafael Lima and Michael Weghorn)
- When previewing styles in the side bar and the styles menu, use the CTL and Asian fonts set on the style for respective text instead of always using Western fonts. tdf#87535 (Khaled Hosny)
- Remove redundant ▸ menu from macOS dock icon. tdf#55922 (Khaled Hosny)
- An improved version of a single toolbar user interface was implemented, supporting context-aware controls and their customization. It can be activated via ▸ ▸ . Customization can be done either with a right click context menu actions, or via ▸ ▸ , for various "Standard (Single Mode) - <context name>" targets. For now, context aware controls were added to Writer only. This largely makes the Contextual Single user interface obsolete, and it might be removed in future versions. tdf#125040 (Maxim Monastirsky)
- The Sifr icon set was refreshed to follow GNOME Adwaita’s new rounded style. tdf#151071 (Rizal Muttaqin)
- GTK3 scrollbars now benefit from the "smooth scrolling" feature. Long-press on a scrollbar or use ⇧ Shift + Click for more precise scrolling. tdf#117388 (Caolán McNamara, Red Hat)
Labelling
- In Calc, the "language" label was changed to the more accurate "locale" label in the (HTML) Import Options and Text Import dialogs. tdf#138748 (Pedro Silva, Collabora)
Font Features Dialog
The Font Features dialog ( ▸ ▸ ▸ ) received some improvements:
- Font features that are enabled by default (e.g. Standard Ligatures) can now be disabled. tdf#127423 (Khaled Hosny)
- Stylistic Sets and Character Variants features each is now grouped together in a separate section, so they stand out from other common font features. 3f9a8a3b7656470cfcf04c18a46a7b7bbeca8950 (Khaled Hosny)
- Stylistic Sets and Character Variants features can have user-friendly labels defined in the font, these are now shown in the dialog instead of the generic feature names. Additionally, localized versions of these labels that are provided by the font are also shown when LibreOffice user interface is in the respective languages. 19787042b1f139cb9c366801d283c6c0227e85e6 (Khaled Hosny)
- Some font features can have multiple alternates, these are now supported for OpenType fonts as well (previously it was supported for Graphite fonts only). 9ca3c6794ca1969f453ddaa66c4e02ac8c695cc6 (Khaled Hosny)
Localization
Improvements to proofing tools and language support
Dictionaries
- Ukrainian dictionary was updated. tdf#149980 (Aron Budea, Collabora)
- Added Persian (fa-IR) dictionary commit (Aron Budea, Collabora)
Language tags
- The language list combo-box now accepts input of art-... BCP 47 private-use language tags like art-x-mylang or art-Latn-x-mylang (with every valid script subtag for Latn of course). This is an exception to the otherwise not accepted input of private-use subtags preventing mis-spreading arbitrary private-use tags, to support language attribution of artificial constructed languages. tdf#150370 (Eike Rathke, Red Hat)
- Language list entries can be permanently added by dropping an auto-correction file acor_*.dat into the shared or user profile's autocorr/ directory with the corresponding well-formed and valid BCP 47 language tag in its name. The file can be empty (0 bytes length) with no auto-correction data being present, data can be added and edited as usual in AutoCorrect Options. For example, autocorr/acor_de-DE-1901.dat will add the de-DE-1901 tag's language entry that will be displayed as
German (Germany, Traditional German orthography) {de-DE-1901}
If the tag in the file name is not a well-formed BCP 47 language tag or not valid, it is silently ignored and no language list entry will be added. tdf#150371 (Eike Rathke, Red Hat) - For information about IETF BCP 47 language tags, see Wikipedia and W3.org
New languages/locales with locale data
Available as default document language and for locale specific formatting.
- Portuguese (Mozambique) {pt-MZ}. tdf#148792 (Eike Rathke, Red Hat)
Currencies
- As Croatia joins the Eurozone on the 1st of January 2023, Croatian kuna (HRK) conversion to and from euro (EUR) is now supported in the
EUROCONVERT()function, and the new default currency for Croatia is the euro. tdf#150011 (Eike Rathke, Red Hat)
Scripting
- The Macro Selector dialog ( ▸ ▸ ) now remembers the last run macro (792e41314f321f54b3b2fc4d01c8b62a3b704e9e - Rafael Lima).
- The Basic IDE now has a Zoom Slider that allow users to more easily increase/decrease the zoom factor applied to the code editing window. It can also be controlled with Ctrl + Scroll. The font size defined in the Options dialog ( ▸ ▸ ▸ ) is used as the 100% zoom factor (0d9231f2133def9254e0220b8033a46e5fc17658 - Rafael Lima).
LOK API
Added sending unique window id along with other data to LOK API. 05a779e667b08b1b1d2622a56cb76702153d2454 (Gökay Şatır, Collabora)
Feature Removal / Deprecation
- In the SDK, the deprecated tools
idlcandregmerge(using the legacy type registry format) have been removed in favor ofunoidl-write(using the incompatible new type registry format internally introduced in LibreOffice 4.1). a8485d558fab53291e2530fd9a1be581c1628deb - Experimental Emoji toolbar button has been removed. Using system Emoji insertion tools is preferred. tdf#151197 (Khaled Hosny)
- The following font families are no longer bundled with LibreOffice, Users using these fonts are advised to install them on their system:
- EmojiOne Color tdf#144348 (Khaled Hosny)
- Source Code Pro and Source Serif Pro. tdf#136604 (Khaled Hosny)
- KasctBook and KacstOffice. tdf#152376 (Khaled Hosny)
Platform Compatibility
Mac
- LibreOffice 7.5 requires macOS 10.14 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 Aug 2023 → 10.15 Catalina
API Changes
- The obsolete UNOIDL method
com.sun.star.registry.XSimpleRegistry::mergeKeyhas been deprecated (without a replacement), and its implementation now unconditionally throws aRuntimeException. 25fc5f91ab7e6fd410ccd403ba19741a16eaab49 (Stephan Bergmann, Red Hat) - Added a new property
JobNameto the com::sun::star::view::PrintOptions service to allow specifying a job name which is sent to the printer. (Samuel Mehrbrodt, allotropia)