[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/