Software Update: LibreOffice 4.3.0

The Document Foundation has released the final release of version 4.3 of LibreOffice. This open source office package originated as a fork of OpenOffice and comes with the word processor Writer, spreadsheet program Calc, presentation program Impress, drawing program Draw, database program Base and Formula, an application for creating scientific notations. Although this is a stable release, as always with a major release for production environments, the Document Foundation recommends sticking with the previous 4.2 branch for a while. Extensive release notes can be found on this page are found, these are briefly the most important changes:

writer

• Raise limit of characters in paragraphs
• Moved Navigation buttons
• Increase/decrease font size buttons
• DrawingML import/export
• Import/Export nested comments
• Proportion image scaling
• Solarized blue for Non-printing characters
• Relative text frame anchoring improvements
• Vertical alignment for text frames
• Printing comments in margins
• Format all comments
• Unicode-compliant soft hyphen handling

calc

• Smarter highlighting of cell in a formula
• Number selected rows and columns in status bar
• Start cell edit with content of cell above
• User selectable text conversion models
• Pivot Table layout improvement
• Formula engine
• Enable CoinMP solver
• Statistics Wizard (alternative to Excel’s Add-in “Analysis ToolPak”)
• Random number generation

Draw and Impress

• Number of Pages
• Fit slide to window
• Slide Pane selected/unselected slides with mouse over
• 3D models

core

• Accessibility
• VCL (GUI Toolkit)

Options / General

• CUPS, fax machines and spadmin

Filters

• Improved PDF import
• Improved OOXML support
• New import filters

GUI

• Refreshed Tango icons
• Native background rendering on OSX
• Color picker improvements
• Start Center improvements
• Initial HiDpi support
• Progress bar for DOCX documents

Localization

• New languages/locales in language list
• New languages/locales with locale date
• Adding a new language tag

Scripting / Base

• Access2Base new version

API changes

• OSL macro clean up
• C++ UNO language binding and URE libraries
• UNO API changes
  • Removing XInitialization from a service implementations
  • Deprecating com.sun.star.lang.XTypeProvider.getImplementationId