LibreOffice full changelog

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. (blog post) (Tamás Zolnai) tdf#169806:
The color of the grid can be changed: Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Appearance ▸ Customizations ▸ Baseline grid
Page line-spacing now works properly inside Writer frames. The text within the frame is correctly aligned with the baseline grid. (blog post) (Tamás Zolnai) tdf#93785
Displaying field names in Writer now shows a description of the field type in the case of document statistics. (Andreas Heinisch) tdf#45048
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
Draft View for distraction-free editing View ▸ Draft (László Németh) tdf#168705
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.

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. (blog post) (Tamás Zolnai) tdf#169806:
The color of the grid can be changed: Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Appearance ▸ Customizations ▸ Baseline grid
Page line-spacing now works properly inside Writer frames. The text within the frame is correctly aligned with the baseline grid. (blog post) (Tamás Zolnai) tdf#93785
Displaying field names in Writer now shows a description of the field type in the case of document statistics. (Andreas Heinisch) tdf#45048
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
Draft View for distraction-free editing View ▸ Draft (László Németh) tdf#168705
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.

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 opti

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 opti

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 opti

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 opti

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 opti

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 opti

Impress:
The toggle state of numbered and bulleted lists is visible in toolbars and menus in Impress and Draw (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#105083
Core / General:
Start Center menubar is shown in the default menubar on macOS. (Patrick Luby) tdf#41775
Filters:
RTF:
Read-only protection is now respected in imported RTF files. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#153192
XLSX:
Pivot tables are now exported to XLSX correctly. (Bayram Çiçek, Collabora) tdf#123225

Impress:
The toggle state of numbered and bulleted lists is visible in toolbars and menus in Impress and Draw (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#105083
Core / General:
Start Center menubar is shown in the default menubar on macOS. (Patrick Luby) tdf#41775
Filters:
RTF:
Read-only protection is now respected in imported RTF files. (Oliver Specht, CIB) tdf#153192
XLSX:
Pivot tables are now exported to XLSX correctly. (Bayram Çiçek, Collabora) tdf#123225