- Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 7.5 Community, bringing many improvements to the office suite.
- LibreOffice 7.5 Community delivers improvements in the dark mode support, enhancements in PDF Export feature, and many more.
- The new version of LibreOffice Community also introduces new application icons, making them more vibrant and cool.
The free and open-source Microsoft Office suite alternative, LibreOffice, has received a new update. Document Foundation has announced the release of version 7.5 of LibreOffice Community, bringing many enhancements that will improve the user experience.
General improvements
LibreOffice 7.5 Community comes with improvements in the dark mode and the Start Center now allows users to filter the files by their types. Single Toolbar UI and the Font Features dialog are also improved. PDF Export has received a couple of bug fixes and it introduces new options.
A new zoom slider is added in the macro editor, which is placed at the right bottom of the interface. The new version also introduces font embedding support for the macOS version. Lastly, LibreOffice has now new icons with more vibrant colors, which can be seen in the screenshot below:
Other changes
There are also application-specific changes in Writer, Calc, Impress, and Draw. You can see the changes below:
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
- A new set of default table styles, and the 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
You can see the full changelog by clicking here.
Download LibreOffice 7.5 Community
LibreOffice 7.5 Community is now available for download for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems through its official website:
Click here to download LibreOffice 7.5 Community
Linux users can also wait for software repositories to update LibreOffice to its latest version, which generally takes a couple of days.
While LibreOffice 7.5 Community is not considered a beta release, it might still be slightly less stable than the latest release in the 7.4 series since 7.5 is an initial version.