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LibreOffice (32-bit) 軟體圖示 LibreOffice (32-bit) 6.0.0 (32-bit) 資料更新 2018-01-31 閱讀約 7 分鐘

你手上有一台老筆電或舊桌機,跑 Windows 7 或 8,光是開機就要等一陣子。平常只是開開舊文件、打封信、做個簡單表格,但系統內建的記事本或 WordPad 連排版都辦不到,想裝新版 Microsoft Office 又跑不動,硬體規格根本不夠。你只是想找個能開檔、能編輯、不會讓電腦更卡的文書軟體,卻發現市面上多數辦公室套件都往 64 位元和雲端功能走,舊電腦彷彿被拋棄了。

一般人遇到這種狀況,直覺是去抓免費試用版的 Office,但試用期一過就鎖功能;或者裝了線上版文書工具,結果瀏覽器開幾個分頁就記憶體不足。這類工具的切入點是:提供一整套文書、試算表、簡報、繪圖軟體,全部裝在本地端,不依賴網路,也不要求高階硬體。重點是它必須能讀寫常見的 Office 格式,否則你連別人寄來的 .docx 附件都打不開,裝了也是白裝。

01LibreOffice 32位元版跟一般版本差在哪?

這個版本是給 32 位元 Windows 系統用的,也就是 Windows 7、8 或 10 的 32 位元版本。安裝檔不到 300MB,對儲存空間有限的舊電腦比較友善。它包含 Writer、Calc、Impress、Draw、Base、Math 六個元件,功能跟 64 位元版幾乎一樣,只是針對舊系統調整過。如果你的系統是 64 位元,其實可以直接裝一般版,不需要特別找 32 位元版。

02它真的完全免費嗎?會不會用一用突然要收錢?

這套軟體是開放原始碼授權,官方說明寫得很清楚,100% 免費,沒有隱藏費用,也沒有訂閱制。安裝過程不需要註冊帳號,也不用輸入授權碼。它採用 MPL 2.0 授權,個人、教育、商業用途都可以用,沒有功能限制。這點跟一些免費版辦公軟體不同,那些通常會綁帳號或顯示廣告。

03別人傳給我的 Word、Excel、PowerPoint 檔案,它能開嗎?

可以。它支援大部分 Microsoft Office 格式,包括 DOCX、XLSX、PPTX。預設儲存格式是 Open Document Format(ODF),但你可以把檔案另存成 Office 格式,或直接開啟 Office 檔案編輯。要注意的是,官方說明有提到偶爾會遇到 DOCX 排版跑掉的狀況,複雜的格式或特殊字型可能會有差異,但一般文件、表格、簡報基本上沒問題。

04這套軟體需要連網路才能用嗎?

不需要。安裝完成後,所有功能都在本機運作,完全離線可用。網路只有在下載安裝檔或開啟線上說明時才會用到。這對網路不穩或根本沒網路的舊電腦來說很實用。不像一些雲端辦公室軟體,沒網路就連檔案都開不了。

05它跟 Apache OpenOffice 有什麼關係?哪個比較多人用?

兩者同源,但 LibreOffice 更新比較頻繁。從收錄的版本紀錄來看,LibreOffice 從 2011 年至今有 119 個版本,近兩年還有 10 次更新;Apache OpenOffice 的評分人數是 333 人,比 LibreOffice 的 347 人略少,但開發明顯沒那麼活躍。如果你在意格式相容性和持續維護,LibreOffice 是比較多人選擇的那邊。

06我的電腦只有 1GB 記憶體,跑得動嗎?

官方建議最低 256MB 記憶體,512MB 以上比較順暢,硬碟空間需要 1.5GB。以 1GB 記憶體來說,跑基本文書編輯、簡單試算表應該沒問題。但官方說明有提到,處理非常大的檔案時效能會變慢,這在舊硬體上會更明顯。如果你常開幾百頁的長文件或大型試算表,可能要考慮換輕量一點的編輯器。

07介面只有英文嗎?我看不懂英文介面怎麼辦?

這套軟體的介面語系是英文,官方資料沒有提到內建中文介面。不過 LibreOffice 本身支援多國語言,你可以去官方網站下載語言包,或安裝後在設定裡切換介面語言。但這需要另外下載,而且官方資料沒保證 32 位元版一定支援中文包,建議安裝前先到官方社群確認一下。

08我只需要開 PDF 或看圖,裝這套會不會太佔空間?

如果你只是偶爾看個 PDF,這套軟體確實有點殺雞用牛刀。它包含六個完整應用程式,安裝後佔用約 1.5GB 硬碟空間,對老電腦來說不算小。而且 Draw 雖然可以編輯 PDF,但主要用途是向量繪圖,不是專門的 PDF 閱讀器。如果你的需求很單純,找個輕量級 PDF 檢視器會更實際。

09公司電腦可以裝嗎?會不會有版權問題?

可以。它的授權允許商業環境使用,公司行號安裝不需要付費,也不用擔心授權稽核。這點跟需要買授權的 Microsoft Office 不同。不過要注意,安裝過程需要系統管理員權限,如果你在公司電腦上沒有管理者帳號,就必須請 IT 人員協助安裝。

10它跟 WPS Office Free 比起來,哪個比較適合舊電腦?

WPS Office Free 有 811 人評分,比 LibreOffice 的 347 人多,但兩者取向不同。WPS 的介面比較像 Microsoft Office,但它是 freemium 模式,免費版可能有限制;LibreOffice 則是完全免費、無付費版本。以舊電腦來說,LibreOffice 的 32 位元版是特別為低規格系統設計的,WPS 沒有特別強調這點。如果你在意介面熟悉度,可以兩個都裝來試試看。

11這套軟體還在持續更新嗎?會不會裝了之後沒人維護?

從版本紀錄來看,它從 2011 年持續更新到現在,近兩年有 10 次更新,算是還在維護的軟體。不過近 12 個月更新次數是 0,代表最近一年沒有新版本釋出。如果你很在意安全性更新,可以關注官方網站或社群公告,確認 32 位元版的維護狀況。整體來說,它比 Apache OpenOffice 活躍,但不像一些商業軟體每個月都有更新。

12我已經有 Microsoft Office 了,還需要這套嗎?

如果你現有的 Office 還能正常運作,其實不需要換。這套軟體的主要價值是給沒有 Office 授權、或電腦跑不動新版 Office 的人使用。它跟 Microsoft Office 的格式相容,但功能沒有 Office 那麼完整,雲端整合也比較弱。如果你只是偶爾開舊檔,用原本的 Office 就好,不用特地裝這套。

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What's new in this version:

WRITER:
Various:
- Direct cursor: Add option to insert only spaces
- Find toolbar: Add drop down list to change search type
- The main menu (top level) now has an entry “Form”
- Page dialog: page orientation automatically adjusts based on manual input
- Default column spacing (aka gutter) changed to 0.5cm
- Support for split sections inside tables blog entry
- New set of default numbering list styles

Input fields:
- Improved input field behavior

Images rotation:
- Implement rotation of images in Writer to any angle

Mail Merge:
- Writer document as mail merge data source
- Mail Merge now can use XLSX files as data source
- Temporary connections created during mail merge are no longer stored

Tables:
- New default table style
- Default table style applied to inserted tables
- Default table border width changed to 0.5pt
- Old collection of autoformat table styles were replaced with a new collection of table styles: Default, Academic, Box List Blue, Box List Green, Box List Red, Box List Yellow, Elegant, Financial, Simple Grid Columns, Simple Grid Rows, Simple List Shaded

“Grammar By” spell checking:
- User dictionaries allow automatic affixation or compounding, supporting effective editing and technical dictionary creation in several languages. tdf#113739 (László Németh)
- This is a general spell checking improvement of LibreOffice, but it can speed up especially the work of Writer users. Instead of manual handling of hundreds of correct word forms of a new word in a language with rich morphology or compounding, Hunspell spell checker will recognize the new user dictionary word with affixes or in compounds, too, based on a “Grammar By” model word

CALC:
Various:
- Pivot table interop fixes
- Default 2-entry color scale conditional formatting colors changed to Yellow and Green
- Enhanced "Links" dialog
- Number format: accept English syntax keywords; some languages use localized keywords (AAAA for YYYY in French for instance). Now these languages can use English keywords to get valid format in any UI language

Exporting images:
- A cell range selection or a selected group of shapes (images) can be exported to PNG or JPG graphics format with File ? Export... if the Selection checkbox is marked in the file dialog. tdf#108317 (Eike Rathke (Red Hat, Inc.))

Pasting: unformatted text:
- The text/plain Unformatted text format results in unquoted/unescaped content as expected for external pastes. For single cell copy&paste embedded line breaks and tabs are preserved, for multiple cells they are replaced with spaces, effectively being a tab-separated-values (TSV) format. For intra-Calc on-cell pastes using the paste special toolbar button the Unformatted text [TSV-Calc] format can be used, which preserves embedded line breaks and tabs across multiple cells. tdf#113571 tdf#32213 (Eike Rathke (Red Hat, Inc.))
- Added "Paste unformatted text" command with its hot key Ctrl+? Shift+Alt+V tdf#50746

Protection, cells, sheets:
- Added new command to select unprotected cells on protected or unprotected sheet. Located Edit ? Select ? Select Unprotected Cells
- If a tab is protected, the lock symbol (??) appears at the beginning of the tab name

New spreadsheet functions:
- New ODFF1.2 compliant functions SEARCHB, FINDB and REPLACEB added

IMPRESS AND DRAW:
Various:
- Addition of 10 new Impress templates and improvement of two existing templates tdf#103317 (Ashisuto, Yousuf Philips, Heiko Tietze, Laurent BP)
- Removal of confirmation dialog when setting image as slide or page background tdf#112650 (Heiko Tietze, Samuel Mehrbrodt)
- Set default slide format 16:9 tdf#93244 (Heiko Tietze)
- Duplicate dialog

Layers in Draw:
- Better UI for handling layer attributes tdf#89130

CORE/GENERAL:
- Moving existing legacy parser contexts in sc and other modules to fast contexts and offloading unzipping and reading into a different thread (Mohammed Abdul Azeem)
- Added support for user icon themes via extension manager tdf#110742 (Caolán McNamara)

Fonts:
- Addition of Noto fonts (Noto Sans, Noto Serif, Noto Mono and others) tdf#103080 (Yousuf Philips)
- Addition of open source Hebrew fonts and new default order of Hebrew fonts tdf#113538 (Yousuf Philips)
- Addition of open source Arabic fonts tdf#113532 (Yousuf Philips)
- Removal of Open Sans and PT_Serif fonts tdf#103080 (Yousuf Philips)

OpenPGP document signing and encryption:
- on all desktop platforms, you can now use OpenPGP keys to sign ODF documents. tdf#89037 (Katarína Behrens, Samuel Mehrbrodt, Thorsten Behrens - CIB)
- there is now (experimental) support for OpenPGP-based document encryption as well. On saving ODF documents, the file picker shows an extra checkbox to that effect
- you need auxiliary software to make use of that feature (LibreOffice will transparently merge available keys if you have the below installed)

TSCP Classification:
- Classification (TSCP-based) now allows multiple policies
- In Writer the marking and signing at paragraph level are possible
- All this is also saved in Microsoft OOXML-format

Save images modified in place:
- In previous LibreOffice versions when the user tried to save an embedded image through the "Save..." entry available in the context menu, the saved image was the original one more eventually applied filters (which are not removable).
- Further applied transformations like rotations, cropping, color effects were not included in the saved image.
- Starting from this release, LibreOffice offers the user to choose if saving the original image or the modified version through a simple pop-up dialog.
- The new feature is available in Writer, Calc and Draw. (Marco Cecchetti - Collabora)

Visualization of Borders for Tables:
- The visualization of Borders for Tables was largely redesigned/reimplemented for this release, enhancing display quality and unifying the core mechanisms for their graphical creation (basing them mostly on GraphicPrimitives). Matching and merging of overlapping corners is greatly improved, Multi-Line Borders are internally supported for more than three lines in the core. This Table Borders are used in various places - in Dialogs showing the Border Control Widget, in Writer Tables, in Draw/Impress Tables and (of course) in Calc itself. All of these support merged Cells which need to take incoming lines at merged edges into account correctly. Calc also has some 'extra' features like crossed lines and 'rotated' Cells.(Armin Le Grand, CIB)

LIBREOFFICE HELP:
New help online:
- The old wikihelp has been replaced by the new help online

Help Contents:
- Assorted updates to the content and code

FILTERS:
New filters:
- Implemented a new import filter from QuarkXPress v.3, v.4. For this, the libqxp library was created
- Implemented a new export filter to format EPUB from Writer. tdf#33226
- Improvements to OOXML filter
- Improved SmartArt import filter
- Import/export of ActiveX controls from/to DOCX format tdf#50097, tdf#91384
- Improved support embedded text documents (DOCX/DOC) and spreadsheets (XLSX/XLS) in files DOCX/DOC
- Correctly load RTL text direction tdf#87533
- Export into DOCX and DOC all character properties applied for fields tdf#38778
- Show digital signature status in signature line tdf#65393
- Improved OOXML support in presentation files
- DOCX export of cross-references to objects: tables, images, text frames and shapes tdf#42346
- Export MailMerge fields to DOCX and DOC tdf#67207 (Mike Kaganski, Collabora)
- Improvements in the PPTX filter to prevent from creating broken files tdf#104788 tdf#112086 tdf#112088 tdf#112089 tdf#112333 tdf#112334 (Szymon Klos, Collabora)
- Theme colors export was introduced in the PPTX (commit) (Szymon Klos, Collabora)
- Default text frame paddings are now exported correctly tdf#113399 (Tamás Zolnai - Collabora, privately sponsored)
- Preserve font attributes and size of chart's legend, during export to MS Office documents (eg. .xlsx and .docx) tdf#108066 tdf#114173 (Bartosz Kosiorek)
- Horizontal line imports with most attributes tdf#97648 (Justin Luth)
- Drop cap lines and spacing correctly imported tdf#109318 tdf#109319 (Justin Luth)
- Improvement to footnote character style import and export tdf#82173 tdf#109310 tdf#55427 (Justin Luth)
- Improvement to the import of strict OOXML tdf#79272 tdf#78508 tdf#82065 (Justin Luth)

Improvements in EMF+ import:
- Enhanced Metafile Format Plus (EMF+) import filters are used by .doc, docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt and .pptx file formats
- Complete rewrite of the EMF+ import filters (Armin Le Grand CIB, Patrick Jaap TU Dresden)
- Fix failure of displaying ChemDraw objects tdf#31814 (Patrick Jaap TU Dresden, Bartosz Kosiorek)
- Add support for EmfPlusRecordTypeFillRegion record tdf#113704 (Bartosz Kosiorek)
- Implement proper reading of the EmfPlusRegionNode record tdf#113704 (Bartosz Kosiorek)
- Add support for ResetClip record tdf#113707 (Bartosz Kosiorek)
- Add support to OffsetClip record tdf#113758 (Bartosz Kosiorek)

Improvements to ODF filter:
- Metafiles which were previously saved in the internal SVM (Star View Metafile) format are now accompanied by a PNG fallback graphic. This makes it easier for other ODF readers to display the graphics. (Samuel Mehrbrodt, CIB)
- All exported images are annotated with their mimetype in the ODF (attribute loext:mime-type on draw:image) (Samuel Mehrbrodt, CIB)
- Flat ODF now also has fallback graphics for SVG, PDF and Metafiles (Samuel Mehrbrodt, CIB)
- Text grid lines not enabled by default when attribute isn't set tdf#77961 (Mark Hung)
- When converting documents via command line, the target image format can now be chosen via the new --convert-images-to command line parameter. See the output of libreoffice --help for usage information. tdf#109202 (Katarina Behrens, Samuel Mehrbrodt - CIB)

Improvements to XHTML Export:
- Images are now always exported in a browser-readable format (usually SVG or PNG). (Samuel Mehrbrodt, CIB)

Improvements in Adobe Freehand import:
- Read more features: text on path, stroke patterns, arrows, paragraph attributes, custom line and fill styles, text effects. (Laurent Alonso)
- Fix rotation center of a textbox. (Laurent Alonso)

Improvements in MS Visio import:
- Consider stencil txtxform in binary formats. tdf#67914 (Fridrich Strba)
- Parse font width scaling. (Fridrich Strba)
- Accept documents produced by lucidchart.com. tdf#98791 (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Output shape ID if set. (Fridrich Strba)
- Fix parsing of text block background color in some cases. (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Write bitmaps with color palette correctly. (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Deduce text encoding from font name. (Fridrich Strba)
- Parse theme fill and shadow color. (Fridrich Strba)
- Parse font scheme in VSDX documents. (Fridrich Strba)

Improvements in MS Publisher import:
- Parse table row and column sizes. tdf#89061 (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Extract more metadata from documents. (Miklos Vajna)
- Handle table cells containing multiple paragraphs correctly. tdf#89393 (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Parse more text formatting attributes: all underline types, small caps, all caps, outline, emboss, engrave, shadow. (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Parse text language. (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)

Improvements in Adobe Pagemaker import:
- Fix parsing of page dimensions in Mac documents. (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Fix parsing of color tint in Mac documents. tdf#109126 (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Fix parsing of text formatting attributes in Mac documents. (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Properly handle all caps and small caps. (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Parse more text & paragraph formatting attributes. (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)

Improvements in FictionBook import:
- Set default page margins. tdf#94162 (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Use document language as default language for text. (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Use note title as footnote mark. (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Handle subscript and superscript. (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Output content of <code> in monospace font. (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)

Improvements in Abiword import:
- Parse paragraph and cell borders. (Laurent Alonso)
- Improve parsing of lists. (Laurent Alonso)
- Parse fields. tdf#74466 (Laurent Alonso)
- Parse floating (not inline) images. tdf#74463 (Laurent Alonso)
- Parse text boxes. (Laurent Alonso)
- Set minimal width/height of inline images (which usually do not have dimensions set in the file) to 1 inch. tdf#74462 (David Tardon, Red Hat, Inc.)

Improvements in Apple Keynote import:
- Improve reconstruction of gradients. (Laurent Alonso)
- Parse non-RGB colors. (Laurent Alonso)
- Convert table cell values to text. (Laurent Alonso)

Improvements in Apple Pages import:
- Handle following-paragraph and following-layout styles. (Laurent Alonso)
- Improve lookup of parent styles. (Laurent Alonso)
- Never insert a page break in a footnote. (Laurent Alonso)
- Convert table cell values to text. (Laurent Alonso)

Improvements in Apple Numbers import:
- Correctly compute cell row and column. (Laurent Alonso)
- Improve resolution of cell styles. (Laurent Alonso)
- Improve handling of table border lines. (Laurent Alonso)

Improvements in Quattro Pro import:
- Fix reading of formulas with references. (Laurent Alonso)
- Parse Quattro Pro for Windows 1.0-6.0 files (.wb1, .wb2). (Laurent Alonso)
- Parse charts. (Laurent Alonso)

GUI:
- Height of tab bar in Calc adjusts to system font size/resolution (commit) (Bernhard Widl, CIB)
- Upper limit of user interface font size removed (was capped in relation to screen height) (tdf#113444) (Bernhard Widl, CIB)
- Hidden in the Standard toolbar is a new drop-down version of the Insert Special Characters button (commit 800ac37021e3f8859)(Akshay Deep, Yousuf Philips)
- The elementary icon theme, previously exclusive of Xubuntu, has been made available in all builds commit

START CENTER:
Window. Dialogs:
- Special characters dialog was reworked tdf#34882
- It is now easier than ever to customize LibreOffice UI based on your needs, thanks to improved user experience and accessibility of the newly reworked Customize dialog (Tools ▸ Customize...). tdf#88896
- Calc : Width and height of page style scaling mode "Fit print range(s) to width/height" can now be set to unspecified tdf#113455

MENU:
Configuration Memory:
Memory configuration page has been removed from Options dialog tdf#110448 (Mike Kaganski, Collabora)

Basic Editor:
- Basic IDE main menu reorganized: some items were added, renamed and moved (commit 4378108d) (Lera Goncharuk)

Notebookbar:
- New variant of Notebookbar - Groupedbar Full for Writer, Calc and Impress (experimental feature)
- New variant of Notebookbar - Tabbed Compact for Writer (experimental feature)

ONLINE:
Server part:
- Use seccomp’s Berkley Packet Filters to drastically restrict the kernel APIs surface available to our contained document processes (Michael Meeks, Ashod Nakashian, Collabora)
- Support for hashed admin passwords, and loolconfig tool (Michael Meeks, Pranav Kant, Jan Holesovsky, Collabora)
- New authorization method via a custom http header via WOPI (Jan Holesovsky, Collabora)
- Extended document conversion API (Jan Holesovsky, Collabora)

General:
- New Insert Special Characters dialog (Henry Castro, Collabora)
- State of the Change tracking is now visible in the menu via check marks (Pranav Kant, Collabora)
- Improved animation of the comments (Henry Castro, Collabora)
- Content Security Policy now includes the Referer too, for easier integration in multi-host environments (Pranav Kant, Collabora)
- New file types that can be edited were added or improved, including PDF and HTML (Ashod Nakashian, Collabora)
- Support for avatars: The integrators can specify a pictures / avatars for the users of the documents via WOPI extension. (Ashod Nakashian, Pranav Kant, Collabora)
- Find & replace dialog (in addition to the previously available Search functionality) (Aditya Dewan, GSoC)
- Support for custom buttons in the toolbar (Pranav Kant, Collabora)
- Automatic detection of links in the comments (Pranav Kant, Collabora)
- Improvements in the Admin Console (Aditya Dewan, GSoC)
- Switch to follow the editor in the list of users (Aditya Dewan, GSoC)
- Better handling of conflict between editing and uploading documents (Pranav Kant, Collabora)
- Spell checking support in all Writer, Calc and Impress (Michael Meeks, Henry Castro, Collabora)
- Status bar indicates the current language (Henry Castro, Collabora)
- Save As support + document name in the user interface (Aditya Dewan, Jan Holesovsky, Collabora)

Performance:
- Improved user experience of the startup - menu and toolbar show already before the document is loaded (Henry Castro, Collabora)

Writer:
- Interactive horizontal ruler (Aditya Dewan, GSoC)

Calc:
- Increased amount of rows available in the Online Calc to half million (Marco Cecchetti, Collabora)
- Active cell reference (Name Box) (Marco Cecchetti, Collabora)
- Basic editing of charts (Marco Cecchetti, Collabora)

LOCALIZATION:
Additional languages in the language list:
- Fon [fon-BJ]. tdf#113835

Improvements to proofing tools and language support:
- Albanian. A new spelling dictionary is available, based on linguistic tools created by Luan Kelmendi. (Lior Kaplan and Áron Budea)
- Arabic. In locales that use the ٫ U+066B ARABIC DECIMAL SEPARATOR, the normal dot . can be used as a decimal separator alternative for input. tdf#81671 (Eike Rathke, Red Hat, Inc.)
- Breton. The spelling dictionary was updated to version 0.15. (Denis Arnaud and András Tímár)
- Bulgarian. The hyphenator was updated to version 2017.09.30 to correct hyphenation points in short words, provide many more for longer words, account for rule changes in the language, and update its encoding to UTF-8. tdf#112750 (Stoyan Dimitrov and Hristo Hristov)
- English (Australian, Canadian, British and US). Updated dictionaries to version 2017.08.24. (Marco A. G. Pinto and Kevin Atkinson)
- Tibetan. The spelling dictionary was updated to version 0.4. tdf#112065 (Elie Roux and Áron Budea)
- Hungarian. The spelling dictionary and Lightproof module were updated tdf#95024 (László Németh)
- Spanish. The spelling dictionary was updated to version 2.2. (Ricardo Palomares)
- Slovenian. The thesaurus was updated. (Martin Srebotnjak)

FEATURE REMOVAL / DEPRECATION:
- Internal file pickers removed (access is still possible via Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Advanced ▸ Expert configuration ▸ org.openoffice.Office.Common.Misc ▸ UseSystemFileDialog) tdf#114484

PLATFORM COMPATIBILITY:
- Removed support for Windows XP and Windows Vista. The minimum supported Windows version is now Windows 7 SP1
- Program installation folder in Windows no longer contains a version number, just LibreOffice. tdf#62303 (Mike Kaganski, Collabora) [note 2]
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable installation with LibreOffice installer is restored. Due to changes in the redistributable, it is now installed in the separate process, after other LibreOffice components had been installed, and requires separate UAC confirmation. It is not installed when LibreOffice is installed in unattended mode (e.g., using command line switches, or using AD GPO), and in this case, separate installation of the redistributable is required (the redistributable is available from Microsoft website, and redistributable's bitness (32- or 64-bit) must match LibreOffice's bitness)

API CHANGES:
The following configuration schemas were removed:
- /org.openoffice.Office/Logging/OOoImprovement/ and /org.openoffice.Office/OOoImprovement/ commit
- /org.openoffice.Office/Common/Java/Applet/Enable commit
- /org.openoffice.Office/Common/View/SplitWindow/ commit
- /org.openoffice.Office/Common/Setup/Product/ooXMLFileFormatName and /org.openoffice.Office/Common/Setup/Product/ooXMLFileFormatVersioncommit
- /org.openoffice.Office/Common/Setup/Product/ooOpenSourceContext commit
- /org.openoffice.Office/Common/Image/Color/ and /org.openoffice.Office/Common/Image/Effect/ commit
- /org.openoffice.Office/Common/Accessibility/IsSystemFont commit
- /org.openoffice.Office/Common/Misc/TemplateRepositoryUrls and /org.openoffice.Office/Common/Misc/TemplateRepositoryNames commit
- /org.openoffice.Office/Office/Common/Save/ODF/UseSHA1InODF12 and /org.openoffice.Office/Office/Common/Save/ODF/UseBlowfishInODF12 commit

Command Line:
- Add --script-cat parameter to allow dumping VBA and StarBasic macros from files to the console (Michael Meeks - Collabora)

UNO API changes:
The following UNO interfaces and services were removed:
- com.sun.star.xml.crypto.XMLEncryption was unused and removed
- com.sun.star.resource.OfficeResourceLoader com.sun.star.resource/XResourceBundle com.sun.star.resource/XResourceBundleLoader were removed as part of the migration from the legacy binary resource file format to gettext

The following UNO interfaces and services were changed:
- com.sun.star.xml.sax.XFastDocumentHandler
- com.sun.star.awt.XToolkitExperimental
- com.sun.star.ui.test.XUITest
- com.sun.star.security.XCertificate
- com.sun.star.security.XDocumentDigitalSignatures
- com.sun.star.xml.crypto.XSecurityEnvironment
- com.sun.star.security.DocumentSignatureInformation
- com.sun.star.embed.XEncryptionProtectedStorage

LibreOfficeKit changes:
- various previously unstable methods were published commit and C99 types "bool" and "uint64_t" were replaced with pre-C99 types "int" and "unsigned long long" commit

LibreOfficeKitClass:
- registerCallback
- getFilterTypes
- setOptionalFeatures
- setDocumentPassword
- getVersionInfo
- runMacro

LibreOfficeKitDocumentClass:
- getDocumentType