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• SVG image import
• New or improved import filters: Lotus Word Pro, Microsoft Works, WordPerfect. PPTX chart import feature
• Bundled extensions, including Presenter View in Impress
• Colour-coded document icons
• Load and Save ODF documents in flat XML
• AutoCorrections match case of the words that AutoCorrect replaces
• Vastly improved RTF export
• Embedding of standard PDF fonts

• Memory usage improvements
• Speed and MS Excel compatibility improvements to Calc, redesigned Move/Copy Sheet dialog
• Code cleanup: German comments translated to English, dead code removed
• Improved GTK+ theme integration and font rendering in Linux.
• Reduction of LibreOffice's dependence on Java
• Continuing the transition to GNU Make for building LibreOffice

• Visio .vsd import
• A native PostgreSQL driver
• Java 7 support
• AES encryption support for ODF file encryption
• A .msi Windows Installer package available
• Improved Office Open XML support
• Introduction of an online update checker. By default, this feature is not fully automated.

• Support for color scales and data bars in Calc
• Added word count to status bar
• PDF Export with watermark option
• 10 new Impress master pages
• Support for importing Office SmartArt
• Import Filter for CorelDRAW documents

This was the last version to support the Windows 2000 operating system.

• Import/export support for native RTF math expressions, import filter for Microsoft Publisher files
• Support of all versions of Visio files
• Improved XLSX load time
• Various DOCX improvements
• CMIS support
• Support for Firefox Personas
• PDF import, Presenter Console and Python scripting provider now core features
• Support for comments to text ranges in Writer

• Sidebar
• Improved image rotation
• Gradient backgrounds
• Embedding fonts in documents
• Import large HTML documents with more than 64,000 table cells
• Import/export of charts to ODC files and export to various vector formats
• OOXML and RTF bugfixes and enhancements,
• Basic implementation of EMF+ metafiles.
• Import of legacy Mac text formats (Write Now, MacWrite Pro, AppleWorks)
• Layout via Core Text for OSX and HarfBuzz for Linux

• Calc performance improvements and OpenCL for calculations via the graphics card
• Start Center with file lists
• New set of monochrome icons, "Sifr"
• Import filter for Apple Keynote and AbiWord files
• IAccessible2 (IA2) in Windows version
• Embedded Firebird database engine for Base (experimental)

• Brand new drawingML-based DOCX import/export filter for shapes and TextFrames
• Improved PDF import
• Improved handling of Microsofts's Office Open XML format
• Non-printing characters are displayed in a different color
• Paragraphs in Writer can now be over 65,536 characters (up to 2 GB)
• The default icon set has been updated
• Toolbar background is now rendered natively on Mac OS X
• Comments can be printed in the margins
• Data fields in Calc pivot tables can now be set to columns
• Presentations can have OpenGL 3D objects

New features include:

• Sidebar now enabled by default in Writer, Calc and Draw
• Possibility of connection directly to OneDrive and SharePoint 2010/2013 directly from LibreOffice
• Allowing Draw to import Adobe PageMaker files
• The ability to digitally sign PDF files in Windows
• Toolbar buttons in Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw have been reorganized and improved
• New color selector:
  • Shows recently used document colors
  • Support for different color palettes and for .gpl GIMP palette format
  • Allows directly opening the color picker and choose another color
• Added the ability to import files from MacDraw, MacDraw II and RagTime for Mac (v. 2–3) in Draw and Writer
• Firefox Themes improvements
• Added new fonts: Caladea and Carlito

New features include:
Writer:

• Sidebar previews styles as formatted (pictured);
• Emoji support in 22 languages, including shortcodes for symbols and numerous other replacements; :keyboard: becomes ⌨
• Images can be cropped;
• Text highlighting and shading compatible with MS Word;
• Improved import of comments (annotations) for text ranges in binary .doc files;
• Equations in early RTF and DOC formats imported as editable math objects;
• Apple Pages '09 or older import.

Calc:

• Added UI to conditional formatting;
• Improvements to scientific formatting of cells;
• Import of Lotus 1-2-3 (.wk3 and .wk4), Quattro Pro (.wq1 and .wq2), and Apple Numbers '09 or earlier (basic spreadsheets for Numbers).

Math:

• Equations and their parts can be given 15 basic colors (see picture).

Draw:

• Import of MacDraft (v1) and ClarisDraw files.

Core and filters:

• When e-mailing, maintain document invisible content;
• PDF export supports Time-Stamp Protocol (RFC 3161);
• MS Works import: Add dialog to ask for text encoding;
• Support for Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase) color palettes;
• LibreOffice Expert Configuration now searchable.

Writer:

• A Styles menu has been added to the main menus.

Calc:

• A Sheet menu has been added to the main menus.

Impress:

• A Slide menu has been added to the main menus.

Math:

• The Math module now has a new item "Import MathML from Clipboard".

Core and filters:

• Support Unicode character input with Alt on Windows
• PNG export in Writer, Calc and Impress;
• Import of the following formats supported: Gnumeric, Microsoft Write, Apple Keynote 6

Writer:

• New drawing tools
• New button for showing/hiding track changes toolbar
• Single Toolbar Mode

Calc:

• New drawing tools
• Pressing Shift in the multiline input to insert a new line
• Single Toolbar Mode
• Option to delete border from adjacent cells too in the borders tab of "Format Cells" dialog
• Freeze Rows and Columns button became a split button and added "Freeze First Row" and "Freeze first Column" options in that button
• Extensive function tooltips

Impress:

• Quick access to slide and page properties in a new 'Slide' and 'Page' content panel in the 'Properties' sidebar tab
• Exporting to PDF only notes pages

Filters:

• Better import of DOCX and RTF linked graphic into LibreOffice Writer
• Import of Microsoft Word for DOS files

GUI:

• Print to File available within the list of printers in Print dialog
• Video clips, charts and OLE objects will resize proportionately by default
• Improved resizing behavior for images, videos and OLE objects
• Simplification of Character spacing
• "Save as Template" is now available in the Save toolbar button dropdown
• Added Find Previous button
• Added Icon View and buttons for switching between modes at Remote Files dialog, as well as supporting Google Drive's Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
• New user interface for Template Manager

Writer:

• New dialog for quickly jump to another page
• Implement table styles
• New drawing tools for arrows
• A toolbar button for small capitals

Calc:

• New drawing tools for arrows
• Improve saving WEEKNUM field behavior to ODF
• New options for fraction number formats
• Median is added to functions available in pivot tables
• New option for merging non empty cells

Impress:

• Images inserted via Photo Album can be linked in the document
• Slide properties content panel in sidebar for master slide mode
• Opening Template Selector at startup

Draw:

• New arrow endings, including Crow's foot notation's ones.

Base:

• Upgrade Firebird to version 3.0.0

Text Layout:

• New cross-platform text layout engine that uses HarfBuzz for consistent text layout on all platforms, also improved text layout on macOS and Windows.
• Improved and consistent calculation of inter-line spacing across platforms
• Enable vertical "left to right" block direction for traditional Mongolian and Manchu

Filters:

• Multiple improvements in Open XML, PDF and DOC filters
• StarOffice StarWriter, StarCalc and StarDraw/StarImpress files can again be imported

GUI:

• Revamped the Extension Manager dialog
• Redesign of the Colors, Gradients, Hatching and Bitmap tabs and the addition of a Pattern tab
• Introduction of the Page Deck in the sidebar in Writer
• Added "Import Bitmap" functionality to the Area Content Panel found in the Properties deck
• Added Styles Preview checkbox functionality to the Styles & Formatting Sidebar Deck
• Introduction of the new "Media Playback Panel" found in Properties deck when Media is selected
• Introduction of the "Default Shapes Panel" in the new Shapes Deck for Draw

Online:

• First source code release of LibreOffice Online

Experimental features:

• Added four toolbar modes to make it easy for users to switch the visible toolbars

Writer:

• Importing AutoText from Microsoft Word DOTM templates
• Preserving full structure of numbered and bulleted lists while exporting or pasting them as plain text
• Creating custom watermarks via Format menu
• New context menu items have been added for working with sections, footnotes, endnotes and styles

Calc:

• Adding support for pivot charts, which use data from pivot tables. When the table is updated, the chart is automatically updated as well.
• Menu commands to show, hide and delete all comments
• Priority of conditional formatting rules can be changed with new up/down buttons
• Extra sheet protection options have been added, to optionally allow insertion or deletion of rows and columns
• CSV export settings are now remembered

Impress & Draw:

• Allowing specify fractional angles while duplicating an object

Core:

• A new standard colour palette has been included, based on the RYB colour model
• Support OpenPGP keys for signing ODF documents on Linux
• Added support for ECDSA keys on Linux and macOS
• Signature status showing with colored infobars

Filters:

• File format compatibility has been improved with better support for EMF vector images
• Using PDFium to render imported PDF files

Online:

• Responsive design and read-only mode for the document iframe added
• Performance and rendering improvements

This was the last version to support the Windows XP and Vista operating system.

Writer:

• Add Form menu in menubar
• Input field behavior improves
• Implement rotation of images to any angle
• Use ODT and XLSX files as mail merge data source
• New default table style
• "Grammar By" spell checking

Calc:

• Export cell range selection or a selected group of shapes (images) to PNG or JPG
• The text/plain Unformatted text format results in unquoted/unescaped content as expected for external pastes
• Added "Paste unformatted text" command
• New command to select unprotected cells on protected or unprotected sheet
• Lock symbol to mark protected sheet
• Added three new ODFF1.2 compliant functions
• English syntax keywords for number format
• "Styles" entry in the main menu

Impress:

• Better UI for handling layer attributes
• Added 10 new Impress templates
• Slide format defaulting to 16:9 screen

Core and filters:

• Addition of Noto fonts and some additional Arabic and Hebrew fonts
• Cross platform support for OpenPGP document signing and encryption
• TSCP-based classification for ODF and OOXML formats
• Option to save images modified in place
• Visualization of borders for tables
• New filters to import from QuarkXPress 3–4 and export to EPUB
• Various improvements to OOXML, EMF+, ODF, XHTML, Adobe Freehand, Pagemaker, publisher, Visio, FictionBook, Abiword, Apple Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Quattro Pro filters

GUI:

• Insert Special Characters button become drop-down list, Special characters dialog was also reworked
• Added elementary icon theme
• Reworked Customize dialog
• Added Groupedbar Full and Tabbed Compact interfaces

Writer:

• Multiple improves for Ruby characters
• Support generating signature line via Insert menu
• Add localized settings for tab scopes and caption order
• Multiple improves to EPUB export

Calc:

• Sorting images anchored to Calc cells

Draw:

• Added New Page menu item

Base:

• HSQLDB database engine is still used by default, but Firebird engine is used by default when experimental mode is turned on.

Core / General:

• New default order for Traditional and Simplified Chinese fonts
• Reworked Areafill backgrounds
• New RYB Standard palette, based on Itten RYB color ring theory providing Red, Yellow, Blue primaries
• New set of default gradients
• New application icons
• Colibre and Karasa Jaga icon themes added

Writer:

• Copy and paste spreadsheet data directly in an existing table
• UTF-8 and UTF-16 text file can be saved without byte order mark (BOM)

Calc:

• Support Signature Line in the spreadsheet
• Data Validation supports custom formulas
• Do multivariate regression analysis via regression tool
• Add the REGEX function to match or replace text with regular expression

Impress and Draw:

• Multiple improvements on animation
• Add a couple of text related drawing styles
• Add Table submenu to menu Format in Draw

Base:

• Embedded Firebird database engine becomes available in public
• Firebird Migration Assistant creates a backup copy of content for migration
• MySQL C++ connector is replaced with MariaDB C connector

BASIC:

• Add fully support for Firebird RDBMS

Core / General:

• Signing Signature Lines with an image of handwritten signature
• Add Source Serif Pro font

Filters:

• Add support for exporting OOXML gradient, bitmap and pattern properties for chart
• Implement OOXML agile encryption

GUI:

• Notebookbar becomes available in public
• Add three SVG based icons styles
• Added Minimum and Maximum labels for some conditions in Conditional formatting dialog
• Add a dialog to switch font feature

Writer:

• AutoCorrect exception list function has been extended to avoid auto-capitalization in words like mRNA, iPhone, fMRI
• Add "Send Outline to Clipboard" button to Navigator → Context Menu
• New bottom-to-top, left-to-right writing direction in table cells and text frames
• Support importing charts from DOCX drawingML group shapes
• New interface add Word form controls

Calc:

• New UNO API to let cell anchored graphics resize with the cell
• New Russian ruble currency symbol (₽) to currency formats
• New drop-down widget into formula bar instead old tool Sum
• New checkbox to trim input range to the actual data content
• Add With replacement and Keep order checkboxes for Sampling
• FOURIER() function to computes discrete Fourier transform [DFT] of an input array

Impress and Draw:

• Various improvements for importing SmartArt from PPTX files

Base:

• Firebird Migration Assistant is enabled by default

Chart:

• Add palette selection to options charts default colors

Math:

• Introduce attributes harpoon and wideharpoon for an alternative representation of vectors

Core / General:

• LibreOffice TWAIN module can work on both 32-bit and 64-bit on Windows
• New UNO command to insert narrow no-break space via keyboard shortcut
• Tip-Of-The-Day dialog shows useful information once per day on startup
• What's-New infobar pointing to the release notes after update
• Sentence selection (triple click) is available for keyboard customization
• Support redacting documents
• Support Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) outside macOS

Filters:

• Various improvements on EMF+, PDF and OOXML filters

GUI:

• Tabbed Compact UI is available in public
• Contextual Single UI is available in public

This version removed support for Firefox personas.

Writer:

• Option to mark comments as resolved in Writer
• The bottom-to-top, left-to-right text direction is available in Writer Text Frames
• Comments on Writer images and charts
• New Paste Special menu options for pasting table data into tables

Calc:

• The columns/rows headers are drawn flat now
• Password length no longer limited to 15 symbols for XLSX files
• Whole Sheet Export setting of the PDF export options

Impress & Draw

• Added 'Remove Hyperlink' to context menu
• Added 'Consolidate Text' to combine multiple selected textboxes into one
• Interaction now only executed in presentation mode
• Image Maps now respect the setting to require Ctrl+Click to follow the hyperlink
• Hyperlink in Image Maps now work in presentation mode

Base:

• Access2Base API for Base users can be invoked from Python

BASIC:

• Implement Save As Word 2000 and Save As for Word.VBA document

Core / General:

• Internal Paths are now displayed in the UI
• Added checkbox to enable/disable sending crash reports to The Document Foundation
• Hyperlink context menus were unified
• Added QR Code Generator

GUI:

• Document thumbnails at the start center have an icon overlaid to indicate the module
• Added Table panel to Writer's Sidebar

Writer:

• Implemented a padded numbering in Writer's lists
• Implemented support for semi-transparent text
• Added experimental feature for Universal Accessibility

Calc:

• TEXT() now allows the second argument to be an empty format string for interoperability with other implementations
• Improved opening speed of XLSX files with many pictures

Impress & Draw

• Subscripts now return to the default of 8%. Automatic positioning fixed for superscripts and subscripts in Textboxes
• Implemented support for semi-transparent text
• Speed up: Long operation during typing in list with animations
• Speed up: entering to table editing mode became faster

Base:

• Macro signatures are now evaluated on document load

Math:

• Added RGB personalized color
• Added Laplace symbol

Core / General:

• The underlying Cairo graphics library was replaced with Skia library
• Glow effect on objects was implemented
• Navigator's categories are gray if they do not have any items
• All objects in Navigator (Headings, Tables, Frames, Images, etc.) have own context menu items like Go To, Edit, Delete, Rename
• Headings in Navigator have Promote/Demote level and Promote/Demote chapter context menu items
• Table's context menu in Navigator now has Insert caption item
• Added Outline tracking for Headings in Navigator. It can be in three states: Default, Focus, Off. Try clicking with your mouse in several places in your big text document with many headings
• Replaced the navigation toolbox with the navigate by elements control
• Added Navigator section tooltip word and character count

Filters:

• Added support for exporting to ODF version 1.3
• Multiple improvements for Open XML filters

GUI:

• All toolbars are locked by default now on fresh user profiles
• Added a new Sukapura icon theme. That icon theme will be a default theme for new LibreOffice installations in macOS
• Sifr has been polished and receive many updates
• The unmaintained Tango icon theme was removed from core but will be available as extension
• New icons and banner in Windows installer
• Renaming a page in Draw or slide in Impress with empty or already used name give a tool tip dialog

Writer:

• New Style Inspector to display the attributes of Paragraph and Character Styles, and manually formatted (Direct Formatting) properties
• Default anchor for newly added images is able to be configured
• Ability to detect Unicode, even if the imported text file does not have the Byte Order Mark
• Significant speed improvement of find/replace operations

Calc:

• Added an option to manage pasting with Enter key
• Added option to select items in Autofilter window clicking on all item's row, in addition to the checkbox
• Significant speed improvement of Autofilter and find/replace operations

Impress & Draw:

• Possibility to add visible signatures to existing PDF files in Draw
• Possibility to change animations for several objects at once in Impress
• Addition of "Pause/Resume" and "Exit" buttons to Presenter's Screen
• Addition of realistic soft blurred shadows to objects
• Addition of new physics based animation capabilities and new animation effect presets that use them

General:

• New dialog to select the User Interface flavor, aiming to pick the right UI based on each user's own preferences at first start
• Improved search for a matching printer paper size for the printed document
• Show all supported files when adding a new extension in Extension Manager
• Print Preview is now updated asynchronously, to not block UI when adjusting settings in Print Dialog
• Additions Dialog: to search, get and install extensions with one-click

Macro:

• ScriptForge libraries: an extensible and robust collection of macro scripting resources for LibreOffice to be invoked from user Basic or Python scripts

This is the first version added experimental support for Windows ARM64 platform.

Writer:

• Background fills can cover whole pages, beyond margins
• Page styles can now have a gutter margin
• Mail merge shows a warning about nonexistent data sources
• RDF metadata in Style Inspector
• Custom color metadata field shadings

Calc:

• Calc now can filter by color in AutoFilter
• HTML tables listed in the External Data dialogue now show captions
• "Fat cross" cursor available in the options
• Type can be selected in "Moving Average" trend lines

Impress & Draw:

• New templates: Candy, Freshes, Grey Elegant, Growing Liberty, Yellow Idea
• Multiple columns now available in text boxes
• Direct access to the scaling factor via the status bar

Math:

• Scaling the code input box

General:

• Popup list to search for menu commands
• Scrollable style picker in the NotebookBar
• Fontwork panel in the Sidebar
• New list view for the templates dialog
• Built-in "X-ray"-like UNO object inspector

This is the first version to provide experimental support for Apple Silicon-based ARM Macs.

Writer:

• Visualization and Manage Changes support for tracked deletion and insertion of tables and table rows.

Calc:

• The "Link to External Data" dialog lists HTML tables in the order they appear in the source.
• Whitespace line feed and character tabulation in cell formula expressions are now preserved and survive round-tripping between Office Open XML and ODF file formats.
• New "Evaluate formulas" option in the CSV Import and Paste Special and Text to Column dialog.
• Bash like autocompletion for Calc autoinput was implemented.
• Use system's highlight color for cell cursor.
• Support Color Filter in "Standard Filter" dialog.
• Queries and filters using some text-based operations such as 'contains' now properly work even with numeric data.
• Quick find allowed to search for values instead of formulas.

Impress & Draw:

• New screen sizes compatible with PowerPoint.

Core / General:

• New options to generate one-dimensional barcodes.
• New WebDAV/HTTP UCP based on libcurl.
• Unified line width options.

Writer:

• Supports clearing breaks from Word for improvement layout fidelity.
• Allow to view tracked changes for read-only documents.
• Tracked footnote deletion and insertion are visible in the footnote area.
• Supports rich text, checkbox content controls, dropdown, picture and date content controls from Word natively
• Edited lists show original numbers in change tracking.
• New typographic settings for hyphenation.
• Supports remote LanguageTool APIs for grammar checking.

Calc:

• Supports sparklines
• Allow to edit up to 16,384 columns.
• The height of the formula bar can be stored into the document.
• Extra functions in drop-down AutoSum widget.
• New menu item to search for sheet names.

Impress & Draw:

• New support for document themes.
• Support using slide background as shape fill for PPTX interoperability.

Core / General:

• Added support for WebP and EMZ/WMZ images.
• The configuration now remembers whether recent documents were opened read-only or editable.
• Help pages for the ScriptForge scripting library.

Filters:

• Support import textboxes in group shapes for DOCX filters
• Added "glue points" to some basic shapes for PPTX filters
• Field type of Numeric, Currency, Date and Time forms are exported to PDF
• Various additions for EMF/WMF import.
• Add support for OfficeArtBlip TIFF format.

GUI:

• The Navigator can scroll to the item on selection.
• Search field for the Extension Manager.
• Experimental dark mode support for Windows 10 and Windows 11.
• Dark variant for Colibre icon theme.

Writer:

• Objects can be marked as decorative, for better accessibility
• New types added to content controls, which also improve the quality of PDF forms
• A new automatic accessibility checker option has been added to the Tools menu
• Initial machine translation is available, based on DeepL translate APIs

Calc:

• Add support for Kamenický and Mazovia encodings
• Data tables are supported in charts
• The Function Wizard now lets you search by descriptions
• "Spell out" number formats have been added
• Conditional formatting conditions are now case insensitive
• Correct behavior when entering numbers with a single prefix quote (')
• Paste Special of cells now remembers last used settings between sessions

Impress & Draw:

• New set of default table styles, and creation of table styles
• Table styles can be customized, saved as master elements and exported
• Objects can be drag-and-dropped in the navigator
• It is now possible to crop inserted videos in a slide and still play them
• The presenter console can also run as a normal window instead of fullscreen

Core / General:

• Added support for rotate and zoom gestures when using touchpads
• Allow searching for combining marks from so-called complex scripts
• New application and MIME-type icons, more colorful and vibrant
• The Start Centre can filter documents by type
• PDF Export added new options and features
• Support for font embedding on macOS
• Support variable fonts for printing and exporting to PDF
• Addition of a zoom slider at the bottom right of the macro editor

Writer:

• New Page Number Wizard in the Insert menu, for easy one-step insertion of the page number in the header/footer
• The Paragraph Style dropdown in the Formatting toolbar shows a list of styles used in the document, rather than the full list of the available styles
• Tables of Figures can be generated more flexibly based on paragraph styles
• Bibliography entries can be edited directly from a bibliography table, and bibliography marks hyperlink by default to the matching row in a bibliography table
• Highlighting for used paragraph and character styles and direct formatting in text
• Phrase checking: multi-word dictionary items of Hunspell and custom dictionaries are now accepted

Calc:

• Number format: ? is now supported when exporting to ODF to represent an integer digit, replaced by blank if it is a non significant zero, and decimals for formats in seconds without truncation like [SS].00 are now accepted
• Spreadsheets copied to another document retain a user-defined print range
• Solver settings are saved with documents, and page styles are exported even if they are not in use
• Support for drawing styles for shapes and comments, including a dedicated style for comments that makes it possible to customize the default look and text formatting of new comments
• New compact layout for pivot tables
• Autofilter support for sorting by color. Filter/sort by color considers colours set by number format.
• The Import Text dialog (as CSV file or as unformatted text) has a new option to not detect number in scientific notation (only if “Detect Special Numbers” is off)

Impress & Draw:

• New navigation panel for switching slides while viewing a presentation (option is enabled by flagging a checkbox in Slide Show Settings)
• Objects can now be listed in front to back order in the Navigator, with the top-most object at the top of the list
• Support for free text annotations to PDFium import, plus support for ink, free text and polygon/polyline annotations in PDFium export
• Modified the auto-fitting text scaling algorithm to work in a way similar to MS Office. Text scaling now separates scaling for space (paragraph and line) and scaling fonts, where space scaling can be 100%, 90% and 80%, and font scaling is rounded to the nearest point size. Horizontal spacing (bullets, indents) is not scaled anymore

Base:

• Added Firebird functions DATEDIFF and DATEADD to the set of functions that can be used in the query designer
• Added MariaDB/MySQL functions TIMESTAMPDIFF and TIMESTAMPADD to the set of functions that can be used in the query designer

Core / General:

• Added support for zoom gestures when using touchpads in the main view
• Exporting to PDF updates the last printed time in document properties
• Added support for document themes
• Added support for multicolor gradients
• Each view of a document now can have its language specific accelerator manager
• Entering a group once again dims the objects that are not included in it
• Added support for compressing fullwidth CJK punctuations
• Categorized link targets when linking to a presentation

Filters:

• Added support for OOXML files created in ZIP64 format
• Added support for SVG files with elements prefixed by fe

This is the last version to support the FTP protocol.

Writer:

• "Legal" ordered list numbering: make a given list level use Arabic numbering for all its number parts
• Comments can use styles
• Linkable elements can be drag-and-dropped from the Navigator onto a text selection to use the selection as the hyperlink text
• Nested Sections can be collapsed just like Headings and can be hidden or made visible from their context menu
• In Outline Folding mode, the hidden headings are greyed out in the Navigator instead of not being visible
• Start of multi-page floating tables in Writer
• Comments in a thread are now grouped in the Navigator
• Templates with the required settings for Japanese text added to the Localization category
• New line break algorithm with the concept of Microsoft Word 2013

Calc:

• New search field in the Functions sidebar deck
• Support scientific number format in ODF
• Shortcuts to switch sheets now work to cycle from last to first
• Highlight the row and column for the active cell

Impress:

• Implement Small Caps effect in Character dialog

Draw:

• Support to import multi-page TIFF files placing one image per page

Math:

• Support Arabic mathematical notation
• Support custom Math font
• Inline (Visual) formula editing mode enabled by default

Core / General:

• "Save AutoRecovery information" and "Always create backup copies" turned on by default
• Exporting to PDF updates the last printed time in document properties
• Added search functionality in LibreOffice
• Automatically switching to dark app colors and a dark icon theme when a dark color scheme is configured in the desktop settings also works for the Qt-based UI variants
• Expert config shows explanatory text to the config items in a tooltip
• Expert config can be filtered by modified values
• Alt codes support for Windows allow full Unicode range
• Introduced additional editable metadata fields Contributor, Coverage, Identifier, Publisher, Relation, Rights, Source, Type.
• Support "Drawing Canvas" object from DOCX files
• Implement ODF Wholesome Encryption
• Support SVG OOXML extension

GUI:

• The Insert Special Characters dropdown now shows a character description for the selected character
• Display password strength meter while input password

Localization:

• Add Armenian locale