Alpha release LibreOffice 7.2

It began alpha testing office LibreOffice 7.2 package. For Linux, Winodos and MacOS Prepared Ready builds that can be used to install in parallel with stable releases LibreOffice. Release is expected 18 or 19.

The most noticeable change :

  • Added initial support GTK4;
  • Remote OpenGL-based drawing code in favor of using SKIA / VULKAN;
  • Add a pop-up interface to search for settings and commands in the MS Office style, displayed on top of the current image (Heads-Up Display, HUD);
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  • in the sidebar Added Section Fontwork for font control;

  • In the main Notebookbar panel, the possibility of scrolling the items in the style selection unit;
  • performance optimization CALC;
  • in Writer added support for hyperlinks in tables and indexes, improved work with a bibliography, implemented new type of fields “Gutter” to add additional indents, the possibility of placing the background image as in the visible boundaries of the document and within the text of the text;

  • Updated collection of templates in Impress;

  • improved font caching for faster text drawing;
  • Import and export filters are improved, many flaws have been solved when importing and exporting WMF / EMF, SVG, DOCX, PPTX and XLSX formats;
  • Added initial compilation support in Webassembly.
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