Download and install LibreOffice 7.0 on Ubuntu Linux Systems. The LibreOffice 7.0 release notes explain about the new features and improvements.
LibreOffice 7.0, a new major release providing significant new features: support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.3; Skia graphics engine and Vulkan GPU-based acceleration for better performance; and carefully improved compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.
- Support for ODF 1.3. OpenDocument, LibreOffice’s native open and standardised format for office documents, has recently been updated to version 1.3 as an OASIS Technical Committee Specification. The most important new features are digital signatures for documents and OpenPGP-based encryption of XML documents, with improvements in areas such as change tracking, and additional details in the description of elements in first pages, text, numbers and charts. The development of ODF 1.3 features has been funded by donations to The Document Foundation.
- Skia graphics engine and Vulkan GPU-based acceleration. The Skia graphics engine has been implemented thanks to sponsorship by AMD, and is now the default on Windows, for faster performance. Skia is an open source 2D graphics library which provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms, and can be used for drawing text, shapes and images. Vulkan is a new-generation graphics and compute API with high-efficiency and cross-platform access to modern GPUs.
- Better compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files. DOCX now saves in native 2013/2016/2019 mode, instead of 2007 compatibility mode, to improve interoperability with multiple versions of MS Office, based on the same Microsoft approach. Export to XLSX files with sheet names longer than 31 characters is now possible, along with exporting checkboxes in XLSX. The “invalid content error” message was resolved when opening exported XLSX files with shapes. Finally, there were improvements to the PPTX import/export filter.
LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite arena, starting from native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – with better security and interoperability features over proprietary formats – to almost perfect support for DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files. In addition, LibreOffice includes filters for many legacy document formats, and as such is the best interoperability tool in the market.
Summary of Other New Features
LibreOffice 7.0 General Features
- New icon theme, the default on macOS: Sukapura
- New shapes galleries: arrows, diagrams, icons and more…
- Glow and soft edge effects for objects
LibreOffice 7.0 Writer Features
- Navigator is easier to use, with more context menus
- Semi-transparent text is now supported
- Bookmarks can now be displayed in-line in text
- Padded numbering in lists, for consistency
- Better handling of quotation marks and apostrophes
LibreOffice 7.0 Calc Features
- New functions for non-volatile random number generation
- Keyboard shortcut added for autosum
LibreOffice 7.0 Impress & Draw Features
- Semi-transparent text is supported here too
- Subscripts now return to the default of 8%
- PDFs larger than 500 cm can now be generated
Download LibreOffice 7.0
LibreOffice 7.0 is immediately available from the following link: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Apple macOS 10.12.
NOTE: The Document Foundation doesn’t provide 32bit binaries for Linux for 6.3.0 anymore.
Please pick a 64bit variant if your system supports it or get LibreOffice from your Linux distribution’s repositories instead.
Builds of the latest LibreOffice Online source code are available as Docker images from TDF: https://hub.docker.com/r/libreoffice/online/
LibreOffice Technology based products for Android and iOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/, while for App Stores and ChromeOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/