LibreOffice Release Notes

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) blog post tdf#169806
  • The color of the grid can be changed: Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Appearance ▸ Customizations ▸ Baseline grid

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) blog post tdf#93785

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

Field names now include a subtype description.

• Plumbing to compare documents side-by-side. blog post (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
• 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. (blog post). (László Németh) tdf#38159

Paragraph Composer.

• Draft View for distraction-free editing View ▸ Draft (László Németh) tdf#168705

Draft View.

Normal View

• When printing a form letter, Mail Merge dialog now preserves its Output options: single document/individual documents, file format (Laurent Balland) tdf#144771
• Quick Find Sidebar deck allows to search through comments. (Vojtěch Doležal) tdf#170192
• Improved line wrapping for bidirectional text. Spaces at the end of a line are now placed in paragraph writing direction, rather than reading direction. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#146572

Spaces at the end of a line are now placed in paragraph writing direction, rather than reading direction.

• Added an option to prevent typed text from replacing the current selection Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice Writer ▸ Formatting Aids: Typing: ☑ Typing replaces selection (Andreas Heinisch) tdf#169913
• Fixed dragging handles to resize objects in RTL and vertical CJK documents. Resizing objects should now behave in a more intuitive way. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#56412

Resizing objects in RTL documents works correctly now.

• Show Formatting Marks now also makes format characters for bidirectional text visible. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#63929

BiDi control characters are now shown along with other control characters.

• It is now possible to sort sections alphabetically by their headings in Writer. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#167491
• Changing of Quick Find Sidebar options now happen within the Sidebar deck instead of in a modal dialog. (Vojtěch Doležal) tdf#170980
• Page navigation done with Alt + PgDn and Alt + PgUp now position the view, so the top of the page is at the top of the viewport. The Go to Page dialog was also modified to behave in the same way. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#171259
• A minimum character limit paragraph property was added for limiting hyphenation left to the compound constituent boundaries. (László Németh) tdf#170177
• The Word Count dialog now includes word count data for “before/after cursor". (Tien Nguyen Minh) tdf#123083
• The Link End Index/Table Entry component character style now matches Link Start by default. (Manish Bera) tdf#50050
• Page style names are shown within page break decorations. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#128616
• The list of styles in the Styles dropdown can be configured by expert configuration options ShowDefaultStyles, ShowUsedStyles, ShowFavouriteStyles, and ShowUserDefinedStyles under org.openoffice.Office.Common. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#171727
• An infobar is shown if the automatic formatting removed trailing/leading spaces or tabs. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#171343

Infobar with the option to accept and never show again or to change the options

Navigator

• Writer Navigator now displays index entries. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#164864
• Headings can be sorted alongside their contents via the Navigator (requires experimental features to be active). (Jim Raykowski) tdf#169674

Performance

• The opening time of very large Writer documents with images was improved. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#170595

Calc

• Data Validity allows now to silently reject invalid values (also pre 24.2 behavior restored) (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#160096
• A Shuffle command was added for randomizing the order of cells in a range. (Tomaž Vajngerl, Collabora) tdf#158196
• Calc now behaves better when typing and editing RTL text. Typing RTL text into an empty cell will also now automatically set the cell direction to RTL. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#65563 tdf#144296

Editing RTL spreadsheets should now feel more polished.

Cell directions are now handled automatically, when possible.

• Pivot Table Calculated Field (Balazs Varga, Collabora) tdf#78486 (Olivier Hallot, TDF) tdf#172107

Calculated Field dialog

• XLSX compatibility with line breaks in referenced cells was improved. (Bayram Çiçek, Collabora) tdf#169326
• The UI for changing text formatting in Calc’s Header/Footer dialog was improved. (Viraj Parmar) tdf#103035
• Relative font sizes are now supported in Calc cell styles. (Paolo Benvenuto) tdf#92144
• Ctrl + Home moves the cursor to the first non-frozen cell in the sheet. (Andreas Heinisch) tdf#107994
• XLSX Form control elements now show up in the Navigator. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#167766
• Converted the border toolbar button to a split button that remembers and reapplies the most recently used border style. (Andreas Heinisch) tdf#58349

Border Style Dropdown

• Links to hidden sheets now show a notification (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#118866

Impress

• Transitioning from a numbered list to a bulleted list is now possible (Miklos Vajna, Collabora) blog post
• Impress & Draw now support multiple page sizes in a document (Mohit Marathe, Collabora) tdf#49787

Resize all pages

• 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
• Added Presentation Sections (Pranam Lashkari, Collabora)

Presentation sections available from context menus in slide pane

• Slide Panel and Page Panel now display custom slide names next to the slide number above each thumbnail. (Andreas Heinisch) tdf#37654

Custom slide names

• The icons in the optional navigation bar in slideshows now scale automatically with window size changes. (Vladislav Tarakanov) tdf#158394
• The slide selection in Outline view now tracks the cursor location. (Andreas Heinisch) tdf#99079

Draw

• Swap mouse wheel zoom and scroll: When enabled in Draw, the mouse wheel zooms instead of scrolling, and Ctrl plus the mouse wheel scrolls instead of zooming. (Lucas Negrea) tdf#171291

Base

• Preserved SQL comments in Design View: Fixed an issue where comments within an SQL query were automatically deleted when switching the query to Design View.
  ⚠️ Warning: Comments will still be lost if the query is actively edited while in Design View, as the visual editor regenerates the underlying SQL code. (Vissarion Fysikopoulos, TDF) tdf#42713
• Date, time, and timestamp column filtering is now supported for Base when using the Firebird embedded database. (Vissarion Fysikopoulos, TDF) tdf#153057

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
• There is now a matrix creator dialog for Math. (Jan Rheinländer) tdf#170787

Core / General

• The Organizer tab of the style dialog now shows interactive "chips" for each property that differs from the parent style. Each chip displays the property name and value, and includes an X button to reset that property back to parent inheritance. All properties are shown full text, no ellipsis. (Paolo Benvenuto) tdf#89826

Edit and View buttons to reset style properties to parent style.

• 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

Dialog to save Hotkeys to a document.

• When the generic Visual Class Library VCL UI widgets are used (for example, when a desktop-integration package like libreoffice-kf6 has not been installed), an infobar is shown warning about the situation and how to fix it. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#172256
• OpenType font variations are now natively supported. (Khaled Hosny, Alif Type) tdf#171624 tdf#153368 tdf#118792 tdf#152206
• Unicode escapes now work in Find and Replace with regular expressions. (Anamay Narkar) tdf#106137

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, the Formatting toolbar and the Style dropdown of the Properties deck of the Sidebar. It doesn’t hide one standard style when you use new custom one - avoiding impression of random collection. (Szymon Kłos, Collabora) tdf#108239

Style previews in notebookbar and sidebar dropdown

• Changes to application theme colors no longer require a restart. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#170678
• Theme colors can be accessed via the Notebookbar UI in Impress. (Samuel Mehrbrodt, Collabora, Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#170485

Theme colors in Impress Notebookbar

• A “Remove query string” option was added to the Hyperlink dialog. (Siddhi Salunkhe) tdf#170592
• A maximize button is now shown for resizable dialogs on Windows. (Thomas Rogenmoser) tdf#141381
• It is now possible to scroll between Notebookbar tabs using the mousewheel or touchpad. (Jonas Greifenhain) tdf#103033
• Existing table styles in Writer and Calc can now be edited. The internal format was changed from a binary one to XML. (Karthik Godha) tdf#105933 tdf#49437
• The macOS-specific menu items Emoji & Symbols, Dictation support, and AutoFill are now available. (Dan Williams, TDF) tdf#94251
• Custom dictionaries now have a search filter. (Shlok Kanani) tdf#170978

Search filter

• The Calc ▸ Calculate option page was reorganized. (Sahil Gautam, Collabora) tdf#151144
• The Notebookbars' background is colored individually per module. These colors are hard-coded for now and merged with the background to work on both dark and light themes, controlled via expert configuration NotebookbarColorTransparency with 0 for the exact defined color and 255 for the background color. The default is 150. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#121174

Tabbed UI with module colors enabled

• The Tabbed Notebookbar UI now has category labels. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#166641
• The paragraph styles picker in the Notebookbar UI shows only one (styled) label and the style grid expands to fill the available space of the application (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#169763 tdf#168657

Styles picker 26.8 vs. 26.2

• Style filters in the Styles Sidebar deck can be applied independently. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#167949

Accessibility

• The special character split-button widget is now navigable with the keyboard. (Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#168594
• Writer tables now report row and column index text as specified in ARIA. (Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#171086

Changes in UI strings

• The “Company” field has been relabeled to a more generic “Organization” in User Data options. (Aleksi Kallio) tdf#169121
• The “Ignore system input language” check box is now more clearly labeled as “Apply system input language to new text”. (Prajwal Shelar; Isha Desai) tdf#134628
• “Safe Mode” is now known as “Troubleshoot Mode” to reflect its intended use and minimize misunderstandings about what it does. (Adolfo Jayme-Barrientos) tdf#171916
• “Use square [sic] page mode for text grid” is now called “Use CJK manuscript grid”, and its extended tooltip and help text have been updated accordingly. This option enables the genkō yōshi ⁠ grid. (Olivier Hallot, TDF) tdf#171455
• Labels of two “New” commands were clarified as “New Document” and “New Style from Selection”. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#169766
• Options for “Do show again” were changed to “Do not show again”. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#169313

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

Scripts can create instances of UNO services using a constructor instead of having to use a string. (Neil Roberts, TDF) tdf#171122

For example:

from com.sun.star.awt import Toolkit
toolkit = Toolkit.create(self.xContext)

Similarly for singletons:

from com.sun.star.frame import theDesktop
desktop = theDesktop.get(ctx)

Users debugged remote processes to LibreOffice - started with officehelper.py - can be released from memory. Information is available from [Developer's Guide - Getting started] chapter. (Alain Romedenne) tdf#163465

from officehelper import SessionManager
def my_script():
    # user code goes here
g_exportedScripts = (my_script,)
# LibreOffice entry points
if __name__ == "__main__":
    # entry point for IDEs
    with SessionManager() as ctx:
        # remote Python context
        my_script()

The ScriptForge libraries

An extensible and robust collection of macro scripting resources for LibreOffice to be invoked from user Basic or Python scripts. (Jean-Pierre Ledure)

The libraries expose a total of 35 services each with a bunch of methods and properties.

New in LibreOffice 26.8:

• The new ui.EnterValue(...) method displays a typed input box (cfr. the InputBox() Basic function) to the user and returns the entered value as a scalar of the requested type, or Empty/None when the user cancels the box. The supported types are: STRING, PASSWORD, BOOL, INTEGER, FLOAT, DATE, TIME, DATETIME, COMBO, LIST and RADIO.
• (Basic only) The new array.Map(), array.Filter(), and array.Reduce() methods introduce functional programming techniques on Basic arrays. They mimic their Python equivalents. Those methods allow the programmer to write simpler, shorter code, without necessarily needing to bother about intricacies like loops, branching and error handling.
• The new session.GetUnoProperty() and session.GetPropertyByName() methods return the property value of resp. a UNO object or a ScriptForge service instance when the property name is given as a string.
• (Python only) Python scripts may run either (1) inside the LibreOffice process, the usual mode, or (2) as a client of a LibreOffice server using a pipe or a socket. The benefit of (2) is the freedom to choose his/her preferred IDE to edit and debug the script. The drawback is the reference to the pipe/socket in the script source code. Avoid this by using a default pipe, named PIPE2LIBREOFFICE. The same code will run without change in both (1) and (2) modes.

The whole set of services (except when better done by native built-in functions) is made available for Python scripts with identical syntax and behavior as in Basic.

ScriptForge in the wiki: read Macros/ScriptForge (Lobaluna).

The English version of the documentation of the ScriptForge libraries (26.8) is partially integrated in the LibreOffice help pages (https://help.libreoffice.org/26.8/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/03/lib_ScriptForge.html?DbPAR=BASIC). Their finalization and translation into other languages is underway. (Alain Romedenne, Lobaluna)

Android Viewer

Localization

• AutoCorrect will now automatically replace x’s with circumflexes in Esperanto text. For example “sxangxigxi” becomes “ŝanĝiĝi”. (Neil Roberts, TDF) tdf#172042

Demonstration of the automatic correction of x’s to circumflexes in an Esperanto text

LibreOffice Help

Help accepts MathML contents, prefixed by namespace “m” (O. Hallot, TDF)

< m:math xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"> <m:semantics> <m:mrow> <m:mi>cot</m:mi> ... </m:mrow> </m:semantics> </m:math>

Help contents upgrades and fixes:

• O. Hallot, TDF
• Adolfo Jaime Barrientos
• Stanislav Horacek
• Jean Pierre Ledure
• Ilmari Lauhakangas, TDF

Feature Removal / Deprecation

• Removed obsolete Java Applet configuration settings from NetAccess and Security registry schemas. (Shlok Kanani) (Gabor Kelemen, Collabora) 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 Faulí, TDF) tdf#167563

API Changes

• Removed the legacy Profile API and replaced it with a manual .ini file parser. (Shlok Kanani) tdf#49602
• FunctionAccess::callFunction now accepts missing arguments. (Neil Roberts, TDF) tdf#168267

Code quality

• VeraPDF was added as a PDF validator for automated tests. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#136822

Original source

Writer

• Anchored objects are no longer selected after pasting. The old behaviour can be restored by setting the expert option Office::Writer::Cursor::Option::SelectPastedAnchoredObject to true. (Michael Stahl, Collabora) tdf#167833
• Floating tables and the keep-with-next/don't split paragraph attributes now work better together in Writer (blog post). (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
• Change tracking: old direct format of format redlines are now preserved for ODT and are improved for DOCX (blog post). (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
• Change tracking: it is now possible to decide which change to accept for interdependent changes (blog post). (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
• Floating tables can now be split into floating tables, which improves DOCX export. (Michael Stahl, Collabora) fc53ab8e
• When changing one numbered list by joining it to a previous one (Add to list), this now helpfully also removes any "Restart numbering" properties. (Justin Luth) tdf#113213
• Spell checking dialog: various papercut fixes. Correct-All list no longer cleared unnecessarily (and more reliably cleared when switching to another application). (Justin Luth) tdf#191558 tdf#126826
• Record Track Changes: Partly-deleted paragraphs added to the hidden list. In this way, track changes for partly-deleted paragraphs will not be displayed in the numbering list. (Bayram Çiçek, Collabora) tdf#157596
• Writer now takes line spacing into account for field shadings. In this way, bottom of some letters (e.g. "Ç", "ş", "g", "p") will not be cut off because of the "field shadings" background layer. (Bayram Çiçek, Collabora) tdf#167527
• Do not show line numbering in footnote during DOCX import. (Bayram Çiçek, Collabora) tdf#167202
• Pasting a single image from the clipboard now automatically inserts a caption, following the Writer AutoCaption Images configuration setting. (Michael Stahl, Collabora) d072b5e0
• Writer now supports Start and End paragraph alignment. These options align paragraphs relative to the paragraph text direction, and can simplify reusing styles across languages and writing systems. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#118350

Start and End paragraph alignment

• Writer can now automatically set the direction of RTL text while typing. This behavior can be added to a paragraph style by checking the "Automatically set direction" option in the alignment tab of the paragraph dialog. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#162120
• Writer now displays a more visible grid, and the Snap to Grid functionality now accurately aligns objects with the grid. (Tamás Zolnai) tdf#89544 tdf#126493

Writer grid before/after

• Option to prevent dragging of selected text per Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Writer ▸ Formatting Aids: Drag 'n Drop: ☑ Allow text to be dragged and dropped (Heiko Tietze, tdf) tdf#100998

Calc

• Calc now supports xmlMaps.xml. (Bayram Çiçek, Collabora) tdf#167689
• Improvements to the Sort dialog options. (Regina Henschel)
  • When natural sort is enabled in the Sort dialog options, you have an additional choice to treat decimal separators as regular characters. That allows to sort IP addresses, for example, even if your locale has a dot as decimal separator. The fact that natural sort is enabled is now written to the file and thus retained when reopening the file. tdf#161949
  • The locale setting in the options of the Sort dialog is now written to the file and thus retained. Setting the locale affects not only the choice of a special sort algorithm but now it affects other locale dependent sorting properties too, e.g. which character is used as decimal separator for natural sort. tdf#168175.

Sort options improvements

• Support for Biff12 (Excel 2007+) clipboard format was added, removing limitations of the amount of data pasted into Calc from Excel. (Laurent Balland) (Mike Kaganski, Collabora) tdf#127675
• Excel 2010+ was made the default format when saving as XLSX. It was renamed from 'Office Open XML Spreadsheet' to 'Excel 2010–365 Spreadsheet'. (Justin Luth, Collabora) tdf#165180
• Modifying a formula to Matrix mode can now simply be done by F2, ⇧ Shift + Ctrl + ↵ Enter. No need to change formula itself. (Laurent Balland) tdf#104888
• The commands to set the font and the background color (.uno:Color/uno:BackgroundColor) apply the actual setting from the color picker, when assigned to a shortcut. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#138722, tdf#169812
• Expert option Office::Calc::Content::Display::NoteTransparency allows users to switch off transparency for comments. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#169504
• Column titles don't overlap anymore when column widths are small. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#168092

Column title before/after

Performance

• Scrolling speed was improved when a spreadsheet has many hidden columns (Caolán McNamara, Collabora) tdf#156297
• Spreadsheets with lots of shapes are now faster to work with. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#154913
• Removal of duplicate entries is now faster. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#166121
• Reject tracked changes is faster. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#133557
• Exporting SVGs with lots of bitmaps was optimized. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#169532

Impress

• Introduced Microsoft Media Foundation APIs on Windows to support video and audio playback of common codecs. Managing video playback with MFPlay. About the supported video and audio file formats (without any additional installed codec), more information can be found on this link. (Balazs Varga, Collabora) tdf#62408 tdf#105168 tdf#159292

Base

• Base is now truly multi-user. (Pierre Vacher) tdf#167960

Chart

• Hovering with the mouse over Chart data range colour palette entries in the Sidebar now shows a live preview in the active chart. (Marco Cecchetti, Collabora) 25fa7051

Sidebar Color Palette for Data Series

• Some OOXML chart style content now round-trips through LibreOffice (OOXML -> LO -> OOXML) successfully. For now this is incomplete, and the style data is neither available nor modifiable in the user interface. (Kurt Nordback, Collabora) tdf#168472

Performance

• Performance issues with 3D charts were fixed. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#148988

Core / General

• Added connector support for Writer and Calc. The object path in the standard toolbar: Insert ▸ Shape ▸ Connectors. The object path in the tabbed user interface: Insert ▸ Connectors (double click for multi-selection). (Amin Irgaliev, Vladislav Tarakanov) tdf#79356

Connectors in Calc spreadsheets

• Fonts for which the license disallows editing, which are embedded in documents, are now supported. Previously, they were silently ignored, and the documents were displayed using substitute fonts. Now the user is asked if they want to open the document in edit mode (without the said fonts), or in read-only mode (with the fonts used for display). ODF and OOXML file formats are supported. (Mike Kaganski, Collabora) tdf#145967
• Google Drive authentication was improved to use normal browser method (Windows only for now). (Mike Kaganski, Collabora) tdf#101630
• PDF export: handle document external links. (Floris Bos; Olivier Hallot, TDF) tdf#167490 tdf#170309

External links on PDF export

Filters

Generic XML and JSON mapping to Calc

Generic XML and JSON documents with linkable ranges are now automatically mapped to sheets in Calc. A linkable range is a section of a document containing tabular records. When a document contains multiple linkable ranges, each range gets mapped to a single sheet.

For example, the following JSON document

[
{
"id": 5001,
"name": "Wireless Mouse",
"description": "Ergonomic wireless mouse with adjustable DPI settings.",
"sku": "WM-ERGO-BLK-01",
"price": 25.50,
"stock_quantity": 150,
"category": "Electronics"
},
{
"id": 5002,
"name": "Mechanical Keyboard",
"description": "RGB mechanical keyboard with brown switches for tactile feedback.",
"sku": "MK-RGB-BROWN-02",
"price": 89.99,
"stock_quantity": 75,
"category": "Electronics"
},
{
"id": 5003,
"name": "Laptop Stand",
"description": "Adjustable aluminum laptop stand for improved ergonomics.",
"sku": "LS-ALUM-ADJ-03",
"price": 35.00,
"stock_quantity": 200,
"category": "Accessories"
}
]

gets mapped to the following range of values when opened.

JSON document with linkable range mapped to Calc sheet

There is no constraints on the structure of the original data in the source document as the structure of the original data is analyzed and is automatically mapped to sheet. However, this automatic mapping is done on a best-effort basis, and it may not work in all cases.

XML documents with linkable ranges are handled in a similar fashion. (Kohei Yoshida, Collabora)

DOCX

• Improved line height handling of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean DOC/DOCX documents. (Jonathan Clark) tdf#129808

Markdown

• Added support for exporting to Markdown format (blog post). (Mike Kaganski, Miklos Vajna; Collabora) tdf#160734 tdf#168152 tdf#168172 tdf#168317 tdf#168341 tdf#168662
• Added support for importing from Markdown format, either via files or via the clipboard. (Ujjawal Kumar) tdf#162153
• Added support for using ODT/DOCX templates while importing a Markdown document (blog post). (Miklos Vajna; Collabora)

EPUB

• EPUB export was made much faster, and a progress bar is shown during export. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#133976

Graphics

The Skia graphics engine is now mandatory on both Windows and macOS. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) 07f480b7 9f9550a6

Performance

• Rendering of shape fills was made more performant. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#160345 tdf#149592
• Rendering of SVGs with pattern fills is now faster on Linux. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#101083

User Interface

• All dialogs use vertical tabs with icons now. (Heiko Tietze) tdf#161497

Vertical tabs with small and large icons depending on the number of tabs

• Option to use horizontal tabs instead vertical. (Heiko Tietze) tdf#167108

Select horizontal or vertical tabs in dialogs

• The Layouts panel in the Impress Sidebar now uses a native IconView widget instead of the ValueSet widget. (Parth Raiyani, Collabora) tdf#166964
• The Theme dialog now uses a native IconView widget instead of the ValueSet widget. (Parth Raiyani, Collabora) tdf#167074
• The Presets and Shadow Style Positions from the border page dialog now use a native IconView widget instead of the ValueSet widget. (Parth Raiyani, Collabora) tdf#167536
• The Go to Page/Slide/Sheet dialogs are now async. (Hubert Figuière, Collabora) 8b609509 1beb3252 46c25815
• Allow inserting hyperlink via context menu (when text is selected). (Samuel Mehrbrodt, Collabora) tdf#167544

Insert hyperlink in context menu

• Dialog screenshots can now be copied to the clipboard for immediate pasting in documents (Olivier Hallot, TDF) tdf#166391

Copy screenshot to clipboard

• On Linux, the native GTK and Qt color picker dialogs are now used by default instead of the custom LibreOffice one. This can be configured in Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ General (Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#167669 tdf#169505
• The page size dropdown in the NotebookBar is now visually more consistent with the rest of the User Interface and it displays the full names of the available page sizes. (Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#136905 tdf#169710
• New symbols for unordered lists (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#168292

Default symbols for unordered list

• Image library for unordered lists (bullets) updated. (Andreas Kainz; Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#139076
• RTL/CTL and CJK editing features are now always shown. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#168719

Accessibility

• Accessibility of the border previews in the Border tab of various dialogs (like Writer's Format ▸ Paragraph dialog) has been improved to avoid confusing screen reader announcement. (Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#167279
• When the Tools ▸ Spelling dialog shows up, it is now properly announced by the Orca screen reader on Linux. (Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#163802
• Removing the accessible selection no longer unexpectedly sets the caret to the beginning of the text. (Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#167930
• The Help ▸ Check for Updates... dialog is now screen reader accessible. (Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#104833
• Spelling errors in Writer are now only reported to assistive technology when automatic spell checking is actually enabled. (Michael Weghorn, TDF) NVDA #19170
• Keyboard accessibility for the Tools ▸ Extensions... dialog has been improved. (Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#127201
• It is now possible to switch between vertical tabs using keyboard shortcuts. (Heiko Tietze, TDF; Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#167125 tdf#169383

Scripting

• The version of the internal Python is 3.12.
• Ship sqlite3 with internal python. (Xisco Fauli, TDF) tdf#168512
• Ship dbm with internal python. (Xisco Fauli, TDF) tdf#132074
• Ship venv with internal python. (Xisco Fauli, TDF) tdf#168511
• Ship lzma with internal python. (Xisco Fauli, TDF) tdf#168513

The ScriptForge libraries

An extensible and robust collection of macro scripting resources for LibreOffice to be invoked from user Basic or Python scripts. (Jean-Pierre Ledure)

The libraries expose a total of 35 services each with a bunch of methods and properties.

New in LibreOffice 26.2:

• The session.GetRangeFromCalc() method reads the values contained in a given range located in a given Calc file. The file does not need to be open.
• The new ScriptForge.Sharedmemory service implements the mechanisms to manage persistent memory storage across Basic and/or Python scripts. In event-driven scripting one can often benefit from having variables still being available when the next script is triggered, probably due to a user action. And this, especially, in Basic + Python mixed environments.
• The scriptforge.pyi stub file, which is a great support when editing python scripts with PyCharm or VSCode, has its syntax upgraded to Python ≥ 3.10. Older typing features are now superseded by more modern alternatives.
• The AccessibleContext UNO API is gradually being deprecated. A serious code revisit was needed. More details in tdf#168409.
• The calc.ColorizeRange() method accepts now negative values in the background and foreground arguments to reset them to their default value.
• The new SFDocuments.Shape service is focused on the description of shapes/images/drawing objects stored in (in the current release only) Calc documents. Next methods are implemented : shape.Anchor(), shape.ExportToFile(), shape.Pick(), shape.Resize(), and shape.Rotate() about any pivot point.

The whole set of services (except when better done by native built-in functions) is made available for Python scripts with identical syntax and behavior as in Basic.

ScriptForge in the wiki: read Macros/ScriptForge (Lobaluna).

The English version of the documentation of the ScriptForge libraries (26.2) is partially integrated in the LibreOffice help pages (https://help.libreoffice.org/26.2/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/03/lib_ScriptForge.html?DbPAR=BASIC). Their finalization and translation into other languages is underway. (Alain Romedenne, Rafael Lima)

Localization

Improvements to proofing tools and language support

• Spell check dictionaries were updated for the languages: Hungarian, Mongolian, Portuguese (pt_PT)
• Hyphenation rules were updated for the languages: Hungarian

LibreOffice Help

Help contents upgrades and fixes:

• O. Hallot, TDF
• Stanislav Horacek
• Michael Otto
• Jean Pierre Ledure
• Ilmari Lauhakangas, TDF
• Mike Kaganski, Collabora
• Taichi Haradaguchi
• Samuel Mehrbrodt, Collabora

Feature Removal / Deprecation

• Euro converter wizard has been removed (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#135580

Platform Compatibility

Mac

• LibreOffice 26.2 requires macOS 11 or newer to run.

Linux

• The builds provided by TDF now follow AlmaLinux 9 baseline, which means that they will only run on CPUs with microarchitecture level x86-64-v2 or higher. You may check the levels supported by your CPU by running /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help

API Changes

• The com.sun.star.style.ParagraphAdjust enumeration has two new values: START and END (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#118350
• The SheetSortDescriptor2 service has got an additional attribute NumberBehavior. The .uno:DataSort command has got this attribute as an additional parameter. Find more about using it in Macros/BasicMacrosSortingInCalc (Regina Henschel).

Configuration Changes

Current Experimental Features

Experimental features are enabled Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Advanced ▸ Enable experimental features (may be unstable)

• Writer now has provisional support for font-relative first line, before-text, and after-text paragraph indentation. This feature may be used by entering indentation values in the paragraph properties dialog, including the unit 'em' for the standard typographical unit, or 'ic' for the width of a CJK ideographic character. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#36709 tdf#163913
• New Macro Manager dialog Tools ▸ Macros ▸ Macro Manager that combines the functions of 5 existing dialogs used for Basic macro and scripting framework macro language management into one dialog. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#120658

Macro Manager dialog that combines the functions of 5 existing dialogs used for Basic macro and scripting framework macro language management into one dialog.

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Writer

• Move line hyphenation rule is added to choose whether or not to hyphenate the last line words of the pages and move the whole lines to the next pages instead (blog post). See also interoperability with MSO 2016 and later in Filters (this development was funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet Foundation with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme). (László Németh) tdf#165354
• While hyphenating text, there is an option to move the whole last line to the next page in order to avoid splitting the last word in the page (another case in file details 'File history' section).
• Paragraph, column, page and spread end zones (blog post) (László Németh)
• Minimum, desired and maximum word spacing feature (blog post) (László Németh)
• First and secondary keys are shown in the tooltips of index fields. (Andreas Heinisch) tdf#143157
• For Heading entries, Navigator now displays a tooltip with the outline word and character count that includes all sub-outline words and characters. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#163646
• A command was added to insert a paragraph break before a table: ".uno:BreakAboveTable". (Ujjawal Kumar) tdf#149825
• It is now easier to control how text is selected while scrolling the view. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#50743
• A dialog was added for copying the content of a field from a read-only document. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#164318
• A new field that displays the page count for a range until the next numbering reset was added. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#71583
• A command (with the shortcut Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + F2) was added for converting fields into plain text. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#45946
• Per-window track changes recording in Writer (blog post). (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
• It is now possible to 'reinstate' changes in Writer (reject with history, blog post). (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
• Support for interdependent tracked changes is now improved (blog post blog post 2). (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
• An option to redact images was added in the Auto-Redact dialog Tools ▸ Auto-Redact ▸ Add Target. (Karthik Godha) tdf#139331
• Select 'All Images' from the dropdown menu in the 'Add Target' dialog to redact images.
• It is now possible to set the language of certain punctuation characters in Writer. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#66791 tdf#166011 tdf#166012
• In some cases, Writer will treat punctuation as a different language than intended. This can now be controlled by selecting the text and setting the correct language.

Accessibility

• There is now an accessibility check for links and references in header/footer. (Balázs Varga, Collabora) tdf#164797

Performance

• A certain heavy DOC file inspired optimisations to the loading of language data and laying out of graphical objects. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#141415
• Loading Writer documents with change tracked moves is now faster. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#162343
• Undo handling was optimised, making the deletion of very large Writer tables much faster. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#136238
• Loading of Writer tables containing bookmarks was made faster. (Mike Kaganski, Collabora) tdf#165918
• Large right-to-left Writer documents are faster to open. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#64991

Calc

• Text Import dialog, that is used in CSV import, now has Always show on import checkbox (enabled by default). This checkbox controls, if the dialog will be shown on CSV import, or if the saved (configured on last dialog use) settings will be used automatically. When the checkbox is unchecked, and the dialog is normally not shown, it is possible to show it (once), using a new Edit filter settings checkbox in the File Open dialog, which works the same way as long-existing respective checkbox in File Save dialog: it gets enabled, when a file format, that has configurable settings, is selected in the filter frop-down list. (Shardul Vikram Singh) tdf#74580
• Conditional formatting operators in icon sets can now be customised. (Ahmed Hamed) tdf#61313
• A "Clear AutoFilter" option was added to the context menu of Calc cells. (Ujjawal Kumar) tdf#164322
• Text Import dialog is now only shown for Paste Special actions to avoid unnecessary interruptions. (Shardul Vikram Singh) tdf#65872

New functions

• CHOOSECOLS function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#151000
• CHOOSEROWS function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150999
• DROP function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150998
• EXPAND function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#151001
• HSTACK function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150868
• TAKE function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150997
• TEXTAFTER function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150865
• TEXTBEFORE function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150864
• TEXTSPLIT function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150866
• TOCOL function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150879
• TOROW function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150878
• VSTACK function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150867
• WRAPCOLS function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150881
• WRAPROWS function was added. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#150880

Performance

• Speed of rendering XLSX files with lots of conditional formatting was improved. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) 185df5e6
• Speed of opening XLSX files with lots of conditional formatting was greatly improved. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#134864
• Speed of opening XLSX files with lots of graphical objects was significantly improved. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#130326 tdf#150623
• Row height calculation when switching Calc sheets was optimised, greatly reducing the waiting time in complex spreadsheets. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#150623
• Switching Calc sheets with lots of drawing objects is now much faster. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#131595
• Spellchecking performance in multi-language spreadsheets was improved (Caolán McNamara, Noel Grandin; Collabora) 9a1f131a 3c7156da
• Handling large charts in Calc is now much faster when loading, toggling edit mode and switching sheets. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#147874 tdf#151876
• The loading speed of XLSX files with lots of customFormat attributes in rows was improved. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#163015
• The loading speed of XLSX files with lots of formulas, conditional formatting and comments was greatly improved. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#166684
• The performance of working with spreadsheets with lots of comments was improved. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#161372

Impress

• Ctrl + scrollwheel changes how many slides are displayed per row in the Slide Sorter view. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#117946
• Embedded fonts in PPTX files are now supported. (Tomaž Vajngerl, Collabora) faf45f80 d0ee08cf
• Better algorithm to determine is a font is used and needs to be embedded when exporting to PPTX (Tomaž Vajngerl, Collabora) 777ff280
• Master Slides in Impress and Master Pages in Draw can now be copied. (Mohamed Ali) tdf#45617

Draw

• Boundaries are shown for page margins; disable with the expert option Draw::Misc::TextObject::ShowBoundary (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#89420

Core / General

• A new application-wide Viewer mode is implemented. In it, all files are opened in read-only mode; all editing tools are disabled. The mode is controlled by the new "ViewerAppMode" expert configuration. (Mike Kaganski, Collabora) tdf#62845
• On Windows, the automatic (“MAR”) update mechanism now only registers its update_service.exe as a Windows “LibreOffice Maintenance Service” (that allows to do updates with administrator privileges) when LibreOffice is installed to C:\Program Files. (Stephan Bergmann, Collabora) tdf#164225 tdf#162780
• Background image in the document now visible as a bitmap thumbnail in Page Style ▸ Area ▸ Bitmap. (Justin Luth) tdf#125969
• SHA384 with AES_192 is now taken into account, it allows for example to open more encrypted files. (Julien Nabet) tdf#166241
• PDF signature timestamping on document export now requires a single cryptographic signature computation instead of two. A PIN code must therefore be entered at most once in the process. (Juraj Šarinay) tdf#147452
• The format of PDF documents signed on export is now compatible with Adobe Acrobat Reader. (Juraj Šarinay) tdf#121133
• OLE objects, such as Charts in Calc, can now be resized proportionally with or without ⇧ Shift key in edit mode (same behavior as other shape objects). Moreover, moving OLE objects in edit mode by dragging the border is forced to 45° direction if ⇧ Shift is pressed. (Laurent Balland) tdf#163816
• 25.8.3 Disable extra spacing between Hangul and non-CJK characters. (Jonathan Clark) tdf#136663

Filters

• Encrypted hybrid PDFs can now be imported. (David Gilbert) tdf#55425
• Autofilters are now imported from MS Excel XML files. (Kohei Yoshida) tdf#154311
• 25.8.2 Deleted comments with tracked changed are now fully removed in non-native DOCX/DOC documents. (Mike Kaganski, Collabora) tdf#108791
• Display of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean DOC/DOCX documents is significantly more accurate. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#88908 tdf#83844 tdf#80596
• Add layout interoperability of hyphenated DOCX documents created in MSO 2016 and later: Move only hyphenated word across pages and columns (not full line, as in the previous MSO 2013 interoperability fix), (blog post), see also the associated ODF extension and user interface developments (this development was funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet Foundation with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme). (László Németh) tdf#165354
• DOCX multilevel numbering fixed. (Michael Stahl, Collabora) tdf#166975

PDF 2.0

Support for exporting PDF 2.0 (ISO 32000-2) was added (Tomaž Vajngerl, Collabora)

• Implemented modern AES-256 encryption that is mandatory with PDF 2.0.
• Added PDF/A-4 support, which is using PDF 2.0 as the base.
• Rearranged the PDF Export UI to more logically combine the sections (Forms).
• Combined the PDF and PDF/A versions into one drop-down.
• Added new structure elements (/Em /Strong /Title)
• Added /AFRelationship for the embedded files.
• In hybrid mode the embedded ODF document is marked as source.

User Interface

• Edit Field dialog can be opened in read-only documents. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#164318
• Formatting toolbar is visible in sections that are marked as editable in read-only documents. (Tibor Nagy, Collabora) tdf#146549
• Currency dropdown no longer requires clicking an OK button. (Szymon Kłos, Collabora) tdf#165589
• Quick Find bar now has an option to match diacritics. (Johann Lorber, Linagora) tdf#163616
• A toggle button to show the password in password input dialogs was added. (Balázs Varga, Collabora; Karthik Godha) tdf#146947
• Toggling rotation mode for a selected object can now be done with a single click in Writer and Calc and not only in Impress and Draw. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#90293
• LibreOffice document windows as well as the Start Center will now toggle into and out of native macOS full screen mode by pressing a window's green title button. (Patrick Luby) tdf#128186
• LibreOffice's Window menu now includes the window positioning and arrangement menu items that Apple added in macOS Sequoia. (Patrick Luby) tdf#165448
• Welcome/WhatsNew dialog offers access to the UI picker and the appearance options (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#137931
• The UI picker View ▸ User Interface... allows to activate toolbars (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#158880

Accessibility

• Menus in the File ▸ Templates ▸ Manage Templates dialog are now screen reader accessible on Windows. (Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#157001
• Support for the IAccessible2 "text-indent" attribute was added, which can be used by assistive technology like screen readers to report the indent of a paragraph's first line (the NVDA screen reader on Windows supports that from NVDA version 2025.1 on). (Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#164795
• The table design view in Base (Tables ▸ Create Table in Design View...) no longer becomes unresponsive when a screen reader is active on Windows. (Michael Weghorn, TDF) 8a919d02
• Comboboxes and other controls inside toolbars are now also represented in the accessibility tree of the application. (Michael Weghorn, TDF) tdf#163989

Changes in UI strings

Scripting

• The version of the internal Python is 3.11.
• Ship pip with internal python. (Xisco Fauli, TDF) tdf#162786

The ScriptForge libraries

An extensible and robust collection of macro scripting resources for LibreOffice to be invoked from user Basic or Python scripts. (Jean-Pierre Ledure)

The libraries expose a total of 33 services each with a bunch of methods and properties.

New in LibreOffice 25.8:

• The new calc.XRectangle(rangename) property returns the coordinates (in pixels) on the screen where the given range is located. This opens the door to effective use of popup menus. See Wiki: popup menu.
• The translation in Spanish is now available (B. Antonio Fernández).
• The calc.Intersect(range1, range2) method computes the common area of 2 input ranges.
• With the contextmenu.RemoveAllItems() method, you can opt for configuring a totally customized context menu. Example in Wiki: context menu.
• To avoid duplicates, the document.MenuHeaders property lists the menus present in the menubar.
• The Calc service now hosts new formatting methods (AlignRange, BorderRange, ColorizeRange, DecorateFont and FormatRange). See an example on Wiki: format range.
• TabPageContainer controls may now be inserted in dialogs by code. Page switching in dialogs: Wiki: tabbed pages.
• Still in dialogs, the dialog.ImportControl() method copies controls between dialogs: Wiki: building compound dialogs.
• The new platform.UntitledPrefix property provides the prefix used to name new documents. This can make macros more language agnostic.
• The Exception service is revised : the ReportScriptErrors, StopWhenError, ReturnCode and ReturnCodeDescription properties let the author of scripts decide what ScriptForge should do when an error is detected by the software.
• The ui.CreateBaseDocument() let you define, in addition to HSQLDB, FIREBIRD and CALC (embedded) databases, also the type FIREBIRD_EXTERNAL.
• The new calc.DefinedNames property associated with the calc.DefineName() method lets you manage defined names both at sheet and global levels.

The whole set of services (except when better done by native built-in functions) is made available for Python scripts with identical syntax and behavior as in Basic.

ScriptForge in the wiki: read Macros/ScriptForge (Lobaluna).

The English version of the documentation of the ScriptForge libraries (25.8) is partially integrated in the LibreOffice help pages (https://help.libreoffice.org/25.8/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/03/lib_ScriptForge.html?DbPAR=BASIC). Their finalization and translation into other languages is underway. (Alain Romedenne, Rafael Lima)

Android Viewer

Localization

New languages/locales with locale data

• Add Albanian locale. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#96151
• Add Moldovan locale. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#136753
• Add Bitcoin currency. (Xisco Faulí, TDF) tdf#167431

Improvements to proofing tools and language support

• Spell check dictionaries and hyphenation rules were added for the languages: Punjabi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Kannada, and Assamese.
• Spell check dictionaries were added for the languages: Tamil, and Marathi.
• Spell check dictionaries were updated for the languages: Danish, English GB + ZA, Hindi, Mongolian, Spanish, Thai, and Ukrainian.
• Marathi thesaurus was added.
• Slovenian thesaurus was updated. (Martin Srebotnjak, OdprtiTezaver)

LibreOffice Help

Help pages for new Calc functions:
CHOOSECOLS CHOOSEROWS DROP EXPAND HSTACK TAKE TEXTAFTER TEXTBEFORE TEXTSPLIT TOCOL TOROW VSTACK WRAPCOLS WRAPROWS (Olivier Hallot, TDF)

Help content updates and fixes:

• O. Hallot, TDF
• G. Kelemen, Collabora
• A. Romedenne
• I. Lauhakangas, TDF
• S. Horáček
• B. Buzea
• A. Timar, Collabora Productivity

Feature Removal / Deprecation

The “Community” tagline was removed.

Platform Compatibility

Support for Windows 7 and 8/8.1 was removed.

Support for x86 (32-bit) Windows builds is deprecated.

25.8 will be the last version to run on macOS 10.15 - LibreOffice 26.2 will require macOS 11 or later

API Changes

• The XTiledRenderable UNO interface was removed. ccefc5e5

Configuration Changes

Support for Java instrumentation has been added. tdf#165774

Current Experimental Features

Experimental features are enabled Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Advanced ▸ Enable experimental features (may be unstable)

• Writer now has provisional support for font-relative first line, before-text, and after-text paragraph indentation. This feature may be used by entering indentation values in the paragraph properties dialog, including the unit 'em' for the standard typographical unit, or 'ic' for the width of a CJK ideographic character. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#36709 tdf#163913
• BASIC IDE code completion and auxiliary resources, in Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Basic IDE
• New Macro Manager dialog Tools ▸ Macros ▸ Macro Manager that combines the functions of 5 existing dialogs used for Basic macro and scripting framework macro language management into one dialog. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#120658
• ODF Wholesome Encryption: A new mode of password-based ODF encryption has been implemented, with the following advantages (Michael Stahl, Collabora) tdf#105844:
  • more performant due to deriving a key only once per package
  • more tamper-resistant with authenticated encryption (AES-GCM)
  • better hiding of metadata to reduce information leaks
  • higher resistance to brute forcing using memory-hard Argon2id key derivation function

Warning: You will need LibreOffice 24.2 or later to open these encrypted files. For this reason, by default the pre-existing standard ODF encryption is used.

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