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libreoffice: Update version from 6.0.5.2 to 6.1.0.3
[Announcement][1]: > Berlin, August 8, 2018 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice > 6.1, the second major release of the LibreOffice 6 family presented in > January 2018, with a significant number of new and improved features: > > * Colibre, a new icon theme for Windows based on Microsoft’s icon > design guidelines, which makes the office suite visually appealing for > users coming from the Microsoft environment; > * A reworked image handling feature, which is significantly faster > and smoother thanks to a new graphic manager and an improved image > lifecycle, with some advantages also when loading documents in > Microsoft proprietary formats; > * The reorganization of Draw menus with the addition of a new Page > menu, for better UX consistency across the different modules; > * A major improvement for Base, only available in experimental mode: > the old HSQLDB database engine has been deprecated, though still > available, and the new Firebird database engine is now the default > option (users are encouraged to migrate files using the migration > assistant from HSQLDB to Firebird, or by exporting them to an external > HSQLDB server); > * Significant improvements in all modules of LibreOffice Online, > with changes to the user interface to make it more appealing and > consistent with the desktop version, > * An improved EPUB export filter, in terms of link, table, image, > font embedding and footnote support, with more options for customizing > metadata; > * Online Help pages have been enriched with text and example files > to guide the users through features, and are now easier to localize. > > LibreOffice 6.1’s new features have been developed by a large > community of code contributors: 72% of commits are from developers > employed by companies sitting in the Advisory Board like Collabora, > Red Hat and CIB and by other contributors such as SIL and Pardus, and > 28% are from individual volunteers. > > In addition, there is a global community of individual volunteers > taking care of other fundamental activities such as quality assurance, > software localization, user interface design and user experience, > editing of help system text and documentation, plus free software and > open document standards advocacy at a local level. > > A video summarizing the top new features of LibreOffice 6.1 is > available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoCpnwGNFU. [1]: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/08/08/libreoffice-6-1/
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