De Document Foundation heeft versie 25.8.0 van LibreOffice uitgebracht. Dit opensource officepakket wordt geleverd met tekstverwerker Writer, spreadsheetprogramma Calc, presentatieprogramma Impress, tekenprogramma Draw, databaseprogramma Base en Formula, een applicatie om wetenschappelijke notaties mee te maken. Uitgebreide informatie over de veranderingen in versie 25.8 kunnen op deze pagina worden gevonden; dit zijn de belangrijkste veranderingen:
User Interface: the Welcome/What’s New dialog now offers access to the user interface picker and appearance options, allowing new users to leverage LibreOffice’s flexible UI and personalise the look and feel according to their preferences.
Performance: everything is faster, from startup to scrolling through large documents – with significant speed improvements on less powerful machines.
- In benchmark tests, Writer and Calc open files up to 30% faster.
- Optimised memory management allows for smoother operation on virtual desktops and thin clients.
Better Interoperability with Microsoft Office files, with more accurate handling of DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files and fewer formatting issues, thanks to changes such as:
- a complete overhaul of word hyphenation and spacing
- font management in Impress that is compatible with PowerPoint files
- the addition of new functions in Calc: CHOOSECOLS, CHOOSEROWS, DROP, EXPAND, HSTACK, TAKE, TEXTAFTER, TEXTBEFORE, TEXTSPLIT, TOCOL, TOROW, VSTACK, WRAPCOLS and WRAPROWS.
There are, of course, other important new features, such as the ability to export to the PDF 2.0 format, and several new ScriptForge library services. The complete list is available here.
In terms of operating system support changes, LibreOffice 25.8 will no longer run on Windows 7, 8/8.1 or x86 (32-bit) versions. It is also the last version to run on macOS 10.15.