[tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 7.5 Community

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 7.5 Community
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://www.libreoffice.org/download 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlAmjIwUvs4 and 
PeerTube: https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/of24ezgA4ytWDpHWevGPiF. 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): https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.
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.The 
Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 7.5 Community
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: 
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/.
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://www.libreoffice.org/download/. 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: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/.
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: https://ask.libreoffice.org
LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can 
support The Document Foundation with a donation at 
https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.
[1] Release Notes: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.5
Press Kit
Download link: 
https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/C9aDx4rka6HeDb6 ed from 
certified professionals who offer value-added solutions and services in 
line with proprietary offerings. Reference: 
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/.
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://www.libreoffice.org/download/. 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: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/.
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: https://ask.libreoffice.org
LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can 
support The Document Foundation with a donation at 
https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.
[1] Release Notes: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.5
Press Kit
Download link: https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/C9aDx4rka6HeDb6

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