• Images embedded in writer can now be rotated easily in 90 degree increments fdo#34423(Tomaž Vajngerl)

• Writer textframes now support having a gradient as background fdo#46029 (Miklós Vajna)

• On Windows, modern IMEs show their suggestion windows at more easy-to-read position. fdo#64298 (Yohei Yukawa - Google)

• The comments bar now can be easily toggled with the a button in the ruler. fdo#38246 (Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes)

• Import and export of graphical bullets of numberings in the DOC, DOCX and RTF filters i#120928 (Jian Hong Cheng - Apache: DOC part, Miklos Vajna: DOCX, RTF parts)

• Improved Footnote and footer comment handling. fdo#34800 (Joren De Cuyper)
  
  

• Comments to text ranges can now span over multiple paragraphs. fdo#53442 (Miklos Vajna) 

• The DOCX import filter now handles non-bitmap drawingml shapes. fdo#43641 (Miklos Vajna)

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• Embedding fonts in a Writer document fdo#42195 (Luboš Luňák)

• Add a Stepped Lines line type to Line and XY (Scatter) graphs fdo#61135 (Eric Seynaeve)

• New feature in Calc spreadsheet: Count the number of selected cells: fdo#61541 (Prashant Pandey)

• Embedding fonts in a Calc spreadsheet fdo#61073 (Noel Power)

• Import large HTML documents with more than 64k table cells. fdo#35756 (Eike Rathke)

• New spreadsheet function NUMBERVALUE as defined in ODF OpenFormula. fdo#57180 (Winfried Donkers, Eike Rathke)

• New spreadsheet function SKEWP as defined in ODF OpenFormula. fdo#60322 (Winfried Donkers)
  
  

• Import/export functions new in Excel 2013 for ODF OpenFormula compatibility. fdo#60032 (Eike Rathke)
  
  The following functions are handled, name specialties are given as (in parentheses the Calc en-US UI name) [in brackets the ODFF name]
  

  ACOT, ACOTH, ARABIC, BASE, BINOM.DIST.RANGE (B) [BINOM.DIST.RANGE], BITAND, BITLSHIFT, BITOR, BITRSHIFT, BITXOR, COMBINA, COT, COTH, CSC, CSCH, DAYS, DECIMAL, FORMULATEXT (FORMULA) [FORMULA], GAMMA, GAUSS, IFNA, IMCOSH, IMCOT, IMCSC, IMCSCH, IMSEC, IMSECH, IMSINH, IMTAN, ISFORMULA, MUNIT, NUMBERVALUE, PDURATION (DURATION) [PDURATION], PERMUTATIONA, PHI, RRI, SEC, SECH, SHEET, SHEETS, SKEW.P (SKEWP) [SKEWP], UNICHAR, UNICODE, XOR

• Now it’s easier to create slideshows from a series of pictures with the “Photo Album” feature. fdo#35546 (Gergő Mocsi) Find at: Insert ▸ Picture ▸ Photo Album

• Option to disable the bundled Presenter Console, which makes OpenLP integration much smoother (Manik Malhotra)

• See also filters

• Embedding fonts in a Impress presentation file fdo#61072 (Radek Doulik)

• See also filters

• Limit the results of a query by using the 'Limit' combobox on the Query Design Toolbar. (Tamás Zolnai) Find at: Queries ▸ Design View ▸ Design Toolbar

• New Query Properties Dialog in Query Design View for adding limit and distinct values properties. (Tamás Zolnai) Find at: Queries ▸ Design View ▸ Edit ▸ Query Properties

• Query Properties Dialog can open from Query Design Toolbar (Issa Alkurtass, Tamás Zolnai) Find at: Queries ▸ Design View ▸ Design Toolbar

• New Elements docking windows added (Tomaž Vajngerl)

• Charts can now be also exported to vector graphics (e.g. SVG,PDF) fdo#60137 (Tomaž Vajngerl)

• Text layout on Mac OS X has been ported from the deprecated (and 32-bit only) ATSUI framework to Core Text, which has the additional of supporting OpenType fonts for complex scripts like Arabic (Herbert Dürr – Apache, Tor Lillqvist, and Khaled Hosny)

• Port Agenda Wizard from Java to python. Removed 11 files, 5345 lines of java code (Xisco Faulí)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Port Web Wizard from Java to python. 140 files changed, 5076 (+), 11416 (-). Removed 55 files, 10426 lines of java code (Javier Fernandez)
  
  
  
  
  

• Text layout on Linux (and other X11 platforms) has been ported from the deprecated and unmaintained ICU LayoutEngine library to HarfBuzz, which provides better support for OpenType layout in general and complex scripts in particular, as well as noticeable performance improvements especially for fonts with big number of OpenType lookups (Khaled Hosny, Fridrich Štrba)

• SVG export now also includes hyperlinks fdo#47576 (Moritz Kütt)
  
  
  
  
  

• Media file types Windows Media Audio (WMA), Windows Media Video (WMV), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Flash Video (FLV), Multiplexed OGG Video (OGX), RMI MIDI Audio and SND (SouND) Audio now accessible from Insert ▸ Movie and Sound fdo#36635,fdo#56832, fdo#62409 (Joel Madero, Samuel Mehrbrodt)

• Microsoft Word for Mac 5.1

• Write Now 4.0
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• MacWrite Pro 1.5
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• AppleWorks 6.0
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Numerous improvements have been made to the Microsoft OOXML Import and Export filters as well as for the Microsoft Office binary file formats and the RTF format. Details:

• OOXML Filters→ OOXML, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, VML

• Microsoft Office binary file filters→ DOC, XLS, PPT, "ww8"

• RTF Filters→ RTF

• Syntax highlighted Basic code examples in local help (David Vastag, Andras Timar)

• Add “Match Case” option to the search bar fdo#63035 (Andrzej Hunt)

• Make Find hotkey Ctrl+F a toggle command fdo#59101 (Joren De Cuyper)
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Add a “Close Search” button to the search bar fdo#58526 (Joren De Cuyper)

• Improve display of filenames in the Recent Documents list (Samuel Mehrbrodt)

• Add File ▸ Recent Documents ▸ Clear List feature (Ariel Constenla-Haile - Apache)
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Access Recent Documents directly from the toolbar using the dropdown arrow on the "Open" button fdo#42418 (Jan Holesovsky)

The stream of dialogs that are well sized continues.

• Experimental feature: Sidebar (Apache OpenOffice/IBM Symphony) with resizeable layout (LibreOffice team)

• Delete multiple styles at once fdo#46718 (Joren De Cuyper)
  
  

• New Gallery Images (IBM Symphony)

• Support font localized forms (locl) feature in Writer fdo#62154 (Caolán McNamara)

• Improved hyphenation in Calc and Draw (László Németh)

• More checking rules in pt-BR LightProof grammar checker (Raimundo Moura, João Mac-Cormick, Olivier Hallot).

• Much improved windows input method alignment using IMR_QUERYCHARPOSITION fdo#64298 (Yohei Yukawa – Google)
  
  
  
  
  

• Improved Kashida in justified text fdo#35320 (Ahmad Al-Harthi)

• don't parse fourteen thousand lines of label descriptions on every startup, defer them until a sheet of labels is used (Matus Kukan)

• some pieces shipped in 4.0.x but never announced:
  • asynchronous word-count - for large documents don't defer rendering the document and status bar until we've word-counted it - you may notice the status bar count spin after load, saves many seconds for large docs (Michael Meeks)
  • use copy-on-write for RTF import stack - significantly accelerates large RTF document import (Michael Meeks)
  • use a hash for auto-correction until it needs to be sorted - big speed wins for large auto-correction files (Michael Meeks)

• Completed the port to gnumake, and removed all dmake makefiles and internal binary, this gives significant build parallelism and build-time improvements; see Björn Michaelsen’s blog – many people helped in this work (Bjoern Michaelsen, David Tardon, Peter Foley, Norbert Thiebaud, Michael Stahl, Matus Kukan, Tor Lillqvist, Stephan Bergmann, Lubos Lunak, Caolan McNamara, Mathias Bauer, Jan Holesovsky, Andras Timar, David Ostrovsky, Hans-Joachim Lankenau, and more...)

• Instead of passing a vast number of pre-processor defines -DFOO on every compiler command-line, along with a similarly large amount of makefile rules to set these for various files, we now use autoconf to produce many separate config_host/config_feature.h include files to include which avoid lots of this annoyance (Lubos Lunak)
  
  
  

• Converted large numbers of component instantiations to use the new, much cleaner and more readable service constructors (Noel Grandin)
  
  
  
  

• L10ntools refactoring, remove obsolete behaviours (methods and classes), deduplicate functions and increase the efficiency of merge of translations with removing some "working without result" code and with reducing the counts of searching between translated strings. (Tamás Zolnai)

• Gallery improvements (Michael Meeks)
  • Galleries can now be named with sensible names such as "mygallery.thm" rather than sg<integer> avoiding conflicts in the integer number-space and making it easier to package them.
  • Galleries are created at compile time from a flat list of files - making it easy to extend them.
  • Add ability to translate gallery files using a .desktop file syntax '.str' file placed next to the gallery thus

   name[en_US]=My Gallery
   name[de]=Meine Gallery
   name[fr]=...

• Support for Mac OS X for PowerPC has been dropped.

• Similarly, support for Mac OS X’s SDK v10.4 and 10.5 has been dropped as well.

• This release includes over ten thousand commits from all contributors. Of these around four hundred and fifty have apache.org mail addresses.
  
  
  
  

• A very large number of bugs have been fixed, far too many to attempt an accurate listing; even counting them accurately is difficult, particularly as some bugs are really features, at time of writing we continue to push fixes etc. However a reasonable estimate is around three thousand bugs, of which four hundred came from authors with apache.org mail addresses.

• For more detail on commits, it is worth browsing cgit libreoffice-4-1 branch.

• These libraries were never actually stable URE interfaces, so no client code should be using them.

• rtl/unload.h and everything defined in it related to unloading libraries (rtl_ModuleCount) is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future version core commit b98617b3c86863fe5b4e3d9a96519707ae8cf58c core commit 1268326e814837e111eaf320f72661f288393839

• removed the deprecated header cppuhelper/servicefactory.hxx core commit f3051abde54e7a0bc3e2d184e31ac011e96d3e6b

• removed the deprecated header cppuhelper/bootstrap.hxx core commit e3982fc537aa46595def41250526c331a02cd4e6

• removed the deprecated header rtl/memory.h core commit 542ad7f1c5ac7794c42248ac13e9b33f84888490

• the overload rtl::OUString::compareToAscii(asciiStr, maxLength) is deprecated because it is very error prone core commit 77c87c18697e19cb4606717af0e4b0e5ab2139bc

• overloaded rtl::OUString::valueOf is deprecated, replacements are rtl::OUString::number, rtl::OUString::boolean core commit 2b31e751db38e7ba0e2ec668520f50daf5eb25d5 core commit 751950edc84e0069e5bce1083160d46d9ba1bf33

• deprecated com.sun.star.comp.helper.RegistryServiceFactory removed core commit f3051abde54e7a0bc3e2d184e31ac011e96d3e6b

• A large number of existing UNO services were converted to new-style services, which allow for more convenient and more type safe construction; this has no impact on compatibility of existing client code. (Noel Grandin)

• com.sun.star.document.MediaDescriptor core commit 765aca651a3d53b14dc3bfac0d05b36d4f01dbb4

The following unpublished UNO interfaces were changed:

• com.sun.star.text.textfield.SetExpression documentation was adapted to what the implementation actually does core commit 3b2cbfaa5623ea8443ce1084ece642139de7539d

• com.sun.star.text.textfield.GetExpression documentation was adapted to what the implementation actually does core commit ff3d85dbd72a0e547abe573465e65747ef985955

• Common/Gallery/ID_Dialog core commit 8e7a1ad17cdcd677e40865daa9bbdbe69927360d
• Common/Image/Color/PosterColor
• Common/Image/Color/RotationAngle
• Common/Image/Color/LeftRight
• Common/Image/Color/BlackWhiteThreshold
• Common/Image/Effect/MosaicX_Tile
• Common/Image/Effect/MosaicY_Tile
• Common/Image/Effect/SolarizationThreshold
• Common/Image/Effect/TileX_Tile
• Common/Image/Effect/TileY_Tile
• Common/Internal/CurrentTempURL core commit 31fedbe9f782976b6aa4615b6fd171ed52137c94
• Common/Internal/SendCrashMail
• Common/Internal/Slot
• Common/Internal/UseMailUI
• Common/OfficeObjects core commit 8e7a1ad17cdcd677e40865daa9bbdbe69927360d
• Common/ExternalApps/ExternalMailer/UseDefaultMailer
• Common/ExternalApps/ExternalMailer/CommandProfile
• Common/ExternalApps/ExternalMailer/Profiles
• Common/MailCommandLineProfile
• Common/Path/Current/OfficeInstall
• Common/Path/Current/OfficeInstallURL
• Common/WorkingSet core commit 55664c9bd2469d3e493e6f1b67fbb2f96500d492

• Inet/Settings/ooInetDNSServer core commit ad8ca80c42d2e2b8996d3cf528183710e8ea3395
• Inet/Settings/ooInetSOCKSProxyName
• Inet/Settings/ooInetSOCKSProxyPort

• Java/Install/AdditionalClasspath core commit 7c48a2a83f4a92200c7f2b0f259bf1684d253436
• Java/Install/AdditionalSearchPath
• Java/Install/ExcludeVersion
• Java/Install/InstallationPackage
• Java/Install/PackageInstallationDirectory
• Java/Install/RequiredVersion
• Java/Install/Vendor
• Java/Install/VerifiedVersion
• Java/Install/Version
• Java/VirtualMachine/DebugPort
• Java/VirtualMachine/DisableAsyncGC
• Java/VirtualMachine/EnableClassGC
• Java/VirtualMachine/EnableVerboseGC
• Java/VirtualMachine/EnvironmentType
• Java/VirtualMachine/JavaLibPath
• Java/VirtualMachine/JavaStackSize
• Java/VirtualMachine/MaxHeapSize
• Java/VirtualMachine/MinHeapSize
• Java/VirtualMachine/NativeStackSize
• Java/VirtualMachine/RunTimeLib
• Java/VirtualMachine/SystemClassPath
• Java/VirtualMachine/VMType
• Java/VirtualMachine/Verbose
• Java/VirtualMachine/VerifyMode

• Math/Misc/NoSymbolsWarning core commit 1c86d43ca8bf6f1eac93791068ec016d5637efcd