LibreOffice full changelog

PRIVACY:
If the option Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Security ▸ Options ▸ Remove personal information on saving is enabled, then personal information will not be exported (author names and timestamps, editing duration, printer name and config, document template, author and date for comments and tracked changes)
WRITER:
UI: handling of formatting characters, width of comments panel, selection of bullets, new dialog for hyperlinks, new Find deck in the sidebar
Navigator: adding cross-references by drag-and-drop items, deleting footnotes and endnotes, indicating images with broken links
Hyphenation: exclude words from hyphenation with new contextual menu and visualization, new hyphenation across columns, pages or spreads, hyphenation between constituents of a compound word
CALC:
Addition of FILTER, LET, RANDARRAY, SEQUENCE, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, XLOOKUP and XMATCH functions
Improvement of threaded calculation performance, optimization of redraw after a cell change by minimizing the area that needs to be refreshed
Cell focus rectangle moved apart from cell content
Comments can be edited and deleted from the Navigator’s right-click menu
IMPRESS & DRAW:
In Normal view, it is now possible to scroll between slides, and the Notes are available as a collapsible pane under the slide
By default, the running Slideshow is now immediately updated when applying changes in EditView or in PresenterConsole, even on different Screens
CHART:
New chart types “Pie-of-Pie” and “Bar-of-Pie” break down a slice of a pie as a pie or bar sub-chart respectively (this also enables import of such charts from OOXML files created with Microsoft Office)
Text inside chart’s titles, text boxes and shapes (and parts thereof) can now be formatted using the Character dialog
ACCESSIBILITY:
Several improvements to the management of formatting options, which can be now announced properly by screen readers
SECURITY:
New mode of password-based ODF encryption
INTEROPERABILITY:
Support im

PRIVACY:
If the option Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Security ▸ Options ▸ Remove personal information on saving is enabled, then personal information will not be exported (author names and timestamps, editing duration, printer name and config, document template, author and date for comments and tracked changes)
WRITER:
UI: handling of formatting characters, width of comments panel, selection of bullets, new dialog for hyperlinks, new Find deck in the sidebar
Navigator: adding cross-references by drag-and-drop items, deleting footnotes and endnotes, indicating images with broken links
Hyphenation: exclude words from hyphenation with new contextual menu and visualization, new hyphenation across columns, pages or spreads, hyphenation between constituents of a compound word
CALC:
Addition of FILTER, LET, RANDARRAY, SEQUENCE, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, XLOOKUP and XMATCH functions
Improvement of threaded calculation performance, optimization of redraw after a cell change by minimizing the area that needs to be refreshed
Cell focus rectangle moved apart from cell content
Comments can be edited and deleted from the Navigator’s right-click menu
IMPRESS & DRAW:
In Normal view, it is now possible to scroll between slides, and the Notes are available as a collapsible pane under the slide
By default, the running Slideshow is now immediately updated when applying changes in EditView or in PresenterConsole, even on different Screens
CHART:
New chart types “Pie-of-Pie” and “Bar-of-Pie” break down a slice of a pie as a pie or bar sub-chart respectively (this also enables import of such charts from OOXML files created with Microsoft Office)
Text inside chart’s titles, text boxes and shapes (and parts thereof) can now be formatted using the Character dialog
ACCESSIBILITY:
Several improvements to the management of formatting options, which can be now announced properly by screen readers
SECURITY:
New mode of password-based ODF encryption
INTEROPERABILITY:
Support im

PRIVACY:
If the option Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Security ▸ Options ▸ Remove personal information on saving is enabled, then personal information will not be exported (author names and timestamps, editing duration, printer name and config, document template, author and date for comments and tracked changes)
WRITER:
UI: handling of formatting characters, width of comments panel, selection of bullets, new dialog for hyperlinks, new Find deck in the sidebar
Navigator: adding cross-references by drag-and-drop items, deleting footnotes and endnotes, indicating images with broken links
Hyphenation: exclude words from hyphenation with new contextual menu and visualization, new hyphenation across columns, pages or spreads, hyphenation between constituents of a compound word
CALC:
Addition of FILTER, LET, RANDARRAY, SEQUENCE, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, XLOOKUP and XMATCH functions
Improvement of threaded calculation performance, optimization of redraw after a cell change by minimizing the area that needs to be refreshed
Cell focus rectangle moved apart from cell content
Comments can be edited and deleted from the Navigator’s right-click menu
IMPRESS & DRAW:
In Normal view, it is now possible to scroll between slides, and the Notes are available as a collapsible pane under the slide
By default, the running Slideshow is now immediately updated when applying changes in EditView or in PresenterConsole, even on different Screens
CHART:
New chart types “Pie-of-Pie” and “Bar-of-Pie” break down a slice of a pie as a pie or bar sub-chart respectively (this also enables import of such charts from OOXML files created with Microsoft Office)
Text inside chart’s titles, text boxes and shapes (and parts thereof) can now be formatted using the Character dialog
ACCESSIBILITY:
Several improvements to the management of formatting options, which can be now announced properly by screen readers
SECURITY:
New mode of password-based ODF encryption
INTEROPERABILITY:
Support im

PRIVACY:
If the option Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Security ▸ Options ▸ Remove personal information on saving is enabled, then personal information will not be exported (author names and timestamps, editing duration, printer name and config, document template, author and date for comments and tracked changes)
WRITER:
UI: handling of formatting characters, width of comments panel, selection of bullets, new dialog for hyperlinks, new Find deck in the sidebar
Navigator: adding cross-references by drag-and-drop items, deleting footnotes and endnotes, indicating images with broken links
Hyphenation: exclude words from hyphenation with new contextual menu and visualization, new hyphenation across columns, pages or spreads, hyphenation between constituents of a compound word
CALC:
Addition of FILTER, LET, RANDARRAY, SEQUENCE, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, XLOOKUP and XMATCH functions
Improvement of threaded calculation performance, optimization of redraw after a cell change by minimizing the area that needs to be refreshed
Cell focus rectangle moved apart from cell content
Comments can be edited and deleted from the Navigator’s right-click menu
IMPRESS & DRAW:
In Normal view, it is now possible to scroll between slides, and the Notes are available as a collapsible pane under the slide
By default, the running Slideshow is now immediately updated when applying changes in EditView or in PresenterConsole, even on different Screens
CHART:
New chart types “Pie-of-Pie” and “Bar-of-Pie” break down a slice of a pie as a pie or bar sub-chart respectively (this also enables import of such charts from OOXML files created with Microsoft Office)
Text inside chart’s titles, text boxes and shapes (and parts thereof) can now be formatted using the Character dialog
ACCESSIBILITY:
Several improvements to the management of formatting options, which can be now announced properly by screen readers
SECURITY:
New mode of password-based ODF encryption
INTEROPERABILITY:
Support im

PRIVACY:
If the option Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Security ▸ Options ▸ Remove personal information on saving is enabled, then personal information will not be exported (author names and timestamps, editing duration, printer name and config, document template, author and date for comments and tracked changes)
WRITER:
UI: handling of formatting characters, width of comments panel, selection of bullets, new dialog for hyperlinks, new Find deck in the sidebar
Navigator: adding cross-references by drag-and-drop items, deleting footnotes and endnotes, indicating images with broken links
Hyphenation: exclude words from hyphenation with new contextual menu and visualization, new hyphenation across columns, pages or spreads, hyphenation between constituents of a compound word
CALC:
Addition of FILTER, LET, RANDARRAY, SEQUENCE, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, XLOOKUP and XMATCH functions
Improvement of threaded calculation performance, optimization of redraw after a cell change by minimizing the area that needs to be refreshed
Cell focus rectangle moved apart from cell content
Comments can be edited and deleted from the Navigator’s right-click menu
IMPRESS & DRAW:
In Normal view, it is now possible to scroll between slides, and the Notes are available as a collapsible pane under the slide
By default, the running Slideshow is now immediately updated when applying changes in EditView or in PresenterConsole, even on different Screens
CHART:
New chart types “Pie-of-Pie” and “Bar-of-Pie” break down a slice of a pie as a pie or bar sub-chart respectively (this also enables import of such charts from OOXML files created with Microsoft Office)
Text inside chart’s titles, text boxes and shapes (and parts thereof) can now be formatted using the Character dialog
ACCESSIBILITY:
Several improvements to the management of formatting options, which can be now announced properly by screen readers
SECURITY:
New mode of password-based ODF encryption
INTEROPERABILITY:
Support im

PRIVACY:
If the option Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Security ▸ Options ▸ Remove personal information on saving is enabled, then personal information will not be exported (author names and timestamps, editing duration, printer name and config, document template, author and date for comments and tracked changes)
WRITER:
UI: handling of formatting characters, width of comments panel, selection of bullets, new dialog for hyperlinks, new Find deck in the sidebar
Navigator: adding cross-references by drag-and-drop items, deleting footnotes and endnotes, indicating images with broken links
Hyphenation: exclude words from hyphenation with new contextual menu and visualization, new hyphenation across columns, pages or spreads, hyphenation between constituents of a compound word
CALC:
Addition of FILTER, LET, RANDARRAY, SEQUENCE, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, XLOOKUP and XMATCH functions
Improvement of threaded calculation performance, optimization of redraw after a cell change by minimizing the area that needs to be refreshed
Cell focus rectangle moved apart from cell content
Comments can be edited and deleted from the Navigator’s right-click menu
IMPRESS & DRAW:
In Normal view, it is now possible to scroll between slides, and the Notes are available as a collapsible pane under the slide
By default, the running Slideshow is now immediately updated when applying changes in EditView or in PresenterConsole, even on different Screens
CHART:
New chart types “Pie-of-Pie” and “Bar-of-Pie” break down a slice of a pie as a pie or bar sub-chart respectively (this also enables import of such charts from OOXML files created with Microsoft Office)
Text inside chart’s titles, text boxes and shapes (and parts thereof) can now be formatted using the Character dialog
ACCESSIBILITY:
Several improvements to the management of formatting options, which can be now announced properly by screen readers
SECURITY:
New mode of password-based ODF encryption
INTEROPERABILITY:
Support im

PRIVACY:
If the option Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Security ▸ Options ▸ Remove personal information on saving is enabled, then personal information will not be exported (author names and timestamps, editing duration, printer name and config, document template, author and date for comments and tracked changes)
WRITER:
UI: handling of formatting characters, width of comments panel, selection of bullets, new dialog for hyperlinks, new Find deck in the sidebar
Navigator: adding cross-references by drag-and-drop items, deleting footnotes and endnotes, indicating images with broken links
Hyphenation: exclude words from hyphenation with new contextual menu and visualization, new hyphenation across columns, pages or spreads, hyphenation between constituents of a compound word
CALC:
Addition of FILTER, LET, RANDARRAY, SEQUENCE, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, XLOOKUP and XMATCH functions
Improvement of threaded calculation performance, optimization of redraw after a cell change by minimizing the area that needs to be refreshed
Cell focus rectangle moved apart from cell content
Comments can be edited and deleted from the Navigator’s right-click menu
IMPRESS & DRAW:
In Normal view, it is now possible to scroll between slides, and the Notes are available as a collapsible pane under the slide
By default, the running Slideshow is now immediately updated when applying changes in EditView or in PresenterConsole, even on different Screens
CHART:
New chart types “Pie-of-Pie” and “Bar-of-Pie” break down a slice of a pie as a pie or bar sub-chart respectively (this also enables import of such charts from OOXML files created with Microsoft Office)
Text inside chart’s titles, text boxes and shapes (and parts thereof) can now be formatted using the Character dialog
ACCESSIBILITY:
Several improvements to the management of formatting options, which can be now announced properly by screen readers
SECURITY:
New mode of password-based ODF encryption
INTEROPERABILITY:
Support im

PRIVACY:
If the option Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Security ▸ Options ▸ Remove personal information on saving is enabled, then personal information will not be exported (author names and timestamps, editing duration, printer name and config, document template, author and date for comments and tracked changes)
WRITER:
UI: handling of formatting characters, width of comments panel, selection of bullets, new dialog for hyperlinks, new Find deck in the sidebar
Navigator: adding cross-references by drag-and-drop items, deleting footnotes and endnotes, indicating images with broken links
Hyphenation: exclude words from hyphenation with new contextual menu and visualization, new hyphenation across columns, pages or spreads, hyphenation between constituents of a compound word
CALC:
Addition of FILTER, LET, RANDARRAY, SEQUENCE, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, XLOOKUP and XMATCH functions
Improvement of threaded calculation performance, optimization of redraw after a cell change by minimizing the area that needs to be refreshed
Cell focus rectangle moved apart from cell content
Comments can be edited and deleted from the Navigator’s right-click menu
IMPRESS & DRAW:
In Normal view, it is now possible to scroll between slides, and the Notes are available as a collapsible pane under the slide
By default, the running Slideshow is now immediately updated when applying changes in EditView or in PresenterConsole, even on different Screens
CHART:
New chart types “Pie-of-Pie” and “Bar-of-Pie” break down a slice of a pie as a pie or bar sub-chart respectively (this also enables import of such charts from OOXML files created with Microsoft Office)
Text inside chart’s titles, text boxes and shapes (and parts thereof) can now be formatted using the Character dialog
ACCESSIBILITY:
Several improvements to the management of formatting options, which can be now announced properly by screen readers
SECURITY:
New mode of password-based ODF encryption
INTEROPERABILITY:
Support im

GENERAL:
Save AutoRecovery information is enabled by default, and is always creating backup copies. This reduces the risk of losing content for first-time users who are unfamiliar with LibreOffice settings.
Fixed various NotebookBar options, with many menu improvements, better print preview support, proper resetting of customised layout, and enhanced use of radio buttons. This improves the experience for users familiar with the Microsoft Office UI.
The Insert Special Character drop-down list now displays a character description for the selected character (and in the tooltip when you hover over it).
WRITER:
“Legal” ordered list numbering: make a given list level use Arabic numbering for all its numeric portions.
Comments can now use styles, with the Comment paragraph style being the default. This makes it easier to change the formatting of all comments at once, or to visually categorise different types of comments.
Improved various aspects of multi-page floating table support: overlap control, borders and footnotes, nesting, wrap on all pages, and related UI improvements.
CALC:
A new search field has been added to the Functions sidebar deck.
The scientific number format is now supported and saved in ODF: embedded text (with number format like ###.000 E0); lower case for exponent (with number format like ###.000e0); exponent with empty ‘?’ instead of ‘0’ (with number format like 0.00E+?0).
Highlight the Row and Column corresponding to the active cell.
IMPRESS & DRAW:
The handling of small caps has been implemented for Impress.
Moved Presenter Console and Remote control settings from Tools > Options > LibreOffice Impress to Slide Show > Slide Show Settings, with improved labelling and dialogue layout.
Several improvements and fixes to templates: added and improved placement of various placeholders; fixed order of slides; made fonts and formatting consistent; fixed styles and their hierarchy; improved ODF compliance; made it easier to use templates