Annual Report 2022: LibreOffice in 2022
In 2022, LibreOffice celebrated its twelfth birthday. Two new major versions of the suite introduced a variety of new features, while minor releases helped to improve stability as well
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)
LibreOffice 7.3
On February 2, LibreOffice 7.3 was officially released after six months of work. Developers at Collabora, allotropia, CIB, Red Hat, NISZ, The Document Foundation and other companies and organisations – along with volunteers – worked on many new features.
For instance, large improvements were made to change tracking, with especially when tables are altered and paragraphs are moved (László Németh, NISZ). Colour Filter support was added to the “Standard Filter” dialog in Calc (Samuel Mehrbrodt, allotropia), while PowerPoint-compatible screen sizes were added to Impress (Jun Nogata). On top of the new features, there were many other general improvements to performance, compatibility and stability.
With the help of the Indonesian community, TDF produced a video to explain and demonstrate many of the new features in LibreOffice 7.3. This was linked to in the announcement, and embedded into various web news websites that covered the release. The video is also available on PeerTube.
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LibreOffice 7.4
Later in the year, on August 18, TDF released LibreOffice 7.4. Based on the LibreOffice Technology platform for personal productivity on desktop, mobile and cloud, it provided a large number of interoperability improvements with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats.
In terms of features, this release added support for “sparklines” in Calc (Tomaž Vajngerl, Collabora). These are very small line charts, without axes or coordinates, to provide a quick overview of trends – as opposed to a full chart with details. Then, support for WebP images (Luboš Luňák, Collabora) and EMZ/WMZ files (Paris Oplopoios) was added, along with integration of the remote grammar checker LanguageTool (Mert Tümer; Collabora).
Many other features were added as well, and there were a large number of compatibility improvements. As with the previous release, TDF staff worked with the Indonesian LibreOffice community to make a video (PeerTube version) to demonstrate the new features:
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Regular improvements
We also released 13 minor updates:
- LibreOffice 7.2.5 – January 6
- LibreOffice 7.3.1 – March 3
- LibreOffice 7.2.6 – March 10
- LibreOffice 7.3.2 – March 31
- LibreOffice 7.3.3 – May 5
- LibreOffice 7.2.7 – May 12
- LibreOffice 7.3.4 – June 9
- LibreOffice 7.3.5 – July 21
- LibreOffice 7.3.6 – September 8
- LibreOffice 7.4.1 – September 15
- LibreOffice 7.4.2 – October 13
- LibreOffice 7.3.7 – November 3
- LibreOffice 7.4.3 – November 24