This is the first stable release from the 4.4 branch of LibreOffice which contains new features and program enhancements. As such, the version is stable and is suitable for all users. This version may contain a few annoying bugs which will be fixed in the next bugfix versions to come.
General notes on features and enhancements are contained in this release. For a detailed list, please check our complete release notes here.
- 1 Writer
- Master Document Templates
- Shapes can have a TextBox
- Improvements to Track Changes
- Style dropdown
- Line numbering easier to apply for headers and footers
- Status bar improvements
- Toolbar improvements
- Navigator bookmarks
- AutoCorrect improvements
- 2 Calc
- Statistics Wizard (alternative to Excel's Add-in "Analysis ToolPak")
- Direct conversion of formulas into static values
- Formula engine
- Toolbar improvements
- Sheet context menu
- 3 Impress and Draw
- Text of Master View Object Previews
- Select and toggle off master elements directly via Delete
- OpenGL transitions
- Page Title field
- Inherit current style of cells when inserting New row/column in table
- Password for editing
- Printing: use specified paper size
- Zoom Mode button
- Toolbar improvements
- Menubar improvements
- 4 Base
- 5 Chart
- 6 Math
- Color support
- 7 Core
- Included fonts
- Digitally signed PDF export
- Drawing objects
- Technical Dictionary
- 8 LibreOfficeKit
- 9 Options / General
- 10 Help content
- 11 Code quality
- Translation of German comments
- 12 Filters
- Media file formats
- New import filters
- Connection to SharePoint and OneDrive
- Improved OOXML support
- Improved Visio support
- Improved Table of Contents in HTML export
- Document thumbnails
- Improved MS Publisher support
- Improved Abiword support
- Improved MS Works Spreadsheet support
- Improved FictionBook support
- 13 GUI
- Dialogs conversion to WidgetLayout finished
- Sifr as the default icon theme on OS X
- Changes to rulers
- Start Center
- New default templates
- New color selector
- Reworked paragraph line spacing dropdown
- Bullet and Numbering dropdown
- Sidebar changes
- Context menu changes
- Edit / Read-only mode
- Tab changes
- Firefox Themes
- Image scaling
- Simplification of Special Character dialog
- Icon improvements
- Locale in About dialog
- UI text improvements
- Localization
- New languages/locales with locale data
- Improved language tools (spell-check dictionaries, thesaurus, hyphenation patterns)
- Performance
- Infrastructure
- Scripting / Basic
- Access2Base updated
- Extensions
- Feature removal / deprecation
- ODF changes
- API changes
- OSL macro clean-up
- IReference and ReferenceObject
- UNO API changes
- UNO API removals
- Platform compatibility
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