Version 7.5 of the LibreOffice Community edition is now available. LibreOffice is, of course, the FOSS desktop office suite; version 7.5 brings new features to multiple parts of the tool, including major improvements to dark mode, better PDF exports, improved bookmarks in Writer, data tables for charts in Calc, better interoperability with Microsoft Office, and lots more. Check out the release notes for further information.

LibreOffice 7.5 Community's new features have been developed by 144 contributors: 63% of code commits are from the 47 developers employed by three companies sitting in TDF's Advisory Board - Collabora, Red Hat and allotropia - or other organizations, 12% are from 6 developers at The Document Foundation, and the remaining 25% are from 91 individual volunteers.

Other 112 volunteers - representing hundreds of other people providing translations - have committed localizations in 158 languages. LibreOffice 7.5 Community is released in 120 different language versions, more than any other free or proprietary software, and as such can be used in the native language (L1) by over 5.4 billion people worldwide. In addition, over 2.3 billion people speak one of those 120 languages as their second language (L2).

Berlin, February 2, 2023 - LibreOffice 7.5 Community, the new major release
of the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is
immediately available from
https://documentfoundation.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.ph...
for Windows
(Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors),
and Linux.

Most Significant New Features

GENERAL

 • Major improvements to dark mode support

 • New application and MIME-type icons, more colorful and vibrant

 • The Start Centre can filter documents by type

 • An improved version of the Single Toolbar UI has been implemented

 • PDF Export improved with several fixes, and new options and features

 • Support for font embedding on macOS

 • Improvements to the Font Features dialog with several new options

 • Addition of a zoom slider at the bottom right of the macro editor

WRITER

 • Bookmarks have been significantly improved, and are also much more
visible

 • 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

 • Several spell checking improvements

CALC

 • Data tables are now 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 (')

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 the slide and still play
them

 • The presenter console can also run as a normal window instead of
fullscreen

A video summarizing the top new features in LibreOffice 7.5 Community is
available on YouTube:
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and
PeerTube:
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A
description of all new features is available in the Release Notes [1]

Interoperability with Microsoft Office

Based on the distinctive features of the LibreOffice Technology platform
for personal productivity on desktop, mobile and cloud, LibreOffice 7.5
provides a large number of improvements and new features targeted at users
sharing documents with MS Office or migrating from MS Office. These users
should check new releases of LibreOffice on a regular basis, as the
progress is so fast, that each new version improves dramatically over the
previous one.

LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite
market segment, with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) -
beating proprietary formats for security and robustness - to superior
support for MS Office files, along with filters for a large number of
legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users.

Microsoft files are still based on the proprietary format deprecated by ISO
in 2008, and not on the ISO approved standard, so they hide a large amount
of artificial complexity. This causes handling issues with LibreOffice,
which defaults to a true open standard format (the OpenDocument Format).

Contributors to LibreOffice 7.5 Community

LibreOffice 7.5 Community's new features have been developed by 144
contributors: 63% of code commits are from the 47 developers employed by
three companies sitting in TDF's Advisory Board - Collabora, Red Hat and
allotropia - or other organizations, 12% are from 6 developers at The
Document Foundation, and the remaining 25% are from 91 individual
volunteers.

Other 112 volunteers - representing hundreds of other people providing
translations - have committed localizations in 158 languages. LibreOffice
7.5 Community is released in 120 different language versions, more than any
other free or proprietary software, and as such can be used in the native
language (L1) by over 5.4 billion people worldwide. In addition, over 2.3
billion people speak one of those 120 languages as their second language
(L2).

LibreOffice for Enterprises

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice
Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners - for desktop,
mobile and cloud - with a large number of dedicated value-added features
and other benefits such as SLA (Service Level Agreements):
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Every line of code developed by ecosystem companies for their enterprise
customers is shared with the community on the master code repository, and
improves the LibreOffice Technology platform.

Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for major desktop
operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), for mobile
platforms (Android and iOS), and for the cloud. Slowing down the
development of the platform is hurting users, and the LibreOffice project
may fall short of its expectations and possibilities.

Migrations to LibreOffice

The Document Foundation has developed a Migration Protocol to support
enterprises moving from proprietary office suites to LibreOffice, which is
based on the deployment of an LTS version from the LibreOffice Enterprise
family, plus migration consultancy and training sourced from certified
professionals who offer value-added solutions and services in line with
proprietary offerings. Reference:
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In fact, LibreOffice - thanks to its mature codebase, rich feature set,
strong support for open standards, excellent compatibility and LTS options
from certified partners - is the ideal solution for businesses that want to
regain control of their data and free themselves from vendor lock-in.

Availability of LibreOffice 7.5 Community

LibreOffice 7.5 Community is available from:
https://documentfoundation.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.ph...
Minimum requirements for proprietary
operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Apple macOS 10.14.
LibreOffice Technology-based products for Android and iOS are listed here:
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For users who don't need the latest features, and prefer a release that has
undergone more testing and bug fixing, The Document Foundation maintains
the LibreOffice 7.4 family, which includes some months of back-ported
fixes. The current version is LibreOffice 7.4.5.

The Document Foundation does not provide technical support for users,
although they can get it from volunteers on user mailing lists and the Ask
LibreOffice website:
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LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can
support The Document Foundation with a donation at
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[1] Release Notes:
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