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LibreOffice was updated to version 6.0.3.
Following new features were added:
- The Notebookbar, although still an experimental feature, has been
enriched with two new variants: Grouped Bar Full for Writer, Calc and
Impress, and Tabbed Compact for Writer. The Special Characters dialog
has been reworked, with the addition of lists for Recent and Favorite
characters, along with a Search field. The Customize dialog has also
been redesigned, and is now more modern and intuitive.
- In Writer, a Form menu has been added, making it easier to access one
of the most powerful – and often unknown – LibreOffice features: the
ability to design forms, and create standards-compliant PDF forms. The
Find toolbar has been enhanced with a drop-down list of search types, to
speed up navigation. A new default table style has been added, together
with a new collection of table styles to reflect evolving visual trends.
- The Mail Merge function has been improved, and it is now possible to
use either a Writer document or an XLSX file as data source.
- In Calc, ODF 1.2-compliant functions SEARCHB, FINDB and REPLACEB have
been added, to improve support for the ISO standard format. Also, a
cell range selection or a selected group of shapes (images) can be now
exported in PNG or JPG format.
- In Impress, the default slide size has been switched to 16:9, to support
the most recent form factors of screens and projectors. As a consequence,
10 new Impress templates have been added, and a couple of old templates
have been updated.
Changes in components:
- The old WikiHelp has been replaced by the new Help Online system, with
attractive web pages that can also be displayed on mobile devices. In
general, LibreOffice Help has been updated both in terms of contents and
code, with other improvements due all along the life of the LibreOffice
6 family.
- User dictionaries now allow automatic affixation or compounding. This
is a general spell checking improvement in LibreOffice which can speed
up work for Writer users. Instead of manually handling several forms of a
new word in a language with rich morphology or compounding, the Hunspell
spell checker can automatically recognize a new word with affixes or
compounds, based on a “Grammar By” model.
Security features and changes:
- OpenPGP keys can be used to sign ODF documents on all desktop operating
systems, with experimental support for OpenPGP-based encryption. To enable
this feature, users will have to install the specific GPG software for
their operating systems.
- Document classification has also been improved, and allows multiple
policies (which are now exported to OOXML files). In Writer, marking
and signing are now supported at paragraph level.
Interoperability changes:
- OOXML interoperability has been improved in several areas: import of
SmartArt and import/export of ActiveX controls, support of embedded text
documents and spreadsheets, export of embedded videos to PPTX, export
of cross-references to DOCX, export of MailMerge fields to DOCX, and
improvements to the PPTX filter to prevent the creation of broken files.
- New filters for exporting Writer documents to ePub and importing
QuarkXPress files have also been added, together with an improved filter
for importing EMF+ (Enhanced Metafile Format Plus) files as used by
Microsoft Office documents. Some improvements have also been added
to the ODF export filter, making it easier for other ODF readers to
display visuals.
The full blog entry for the 6.0 release can be found here:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/01/31/libreoffice-6/
The full release notes can be found here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0
The libraries that LibreOffice depends on also have been udpated to their current versions.
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