LibreOffice 3.5 Released

First time accepted submitter wrldwzrd89 writes "The Document Foundation, the team behind the free and open-source office suite called LibreOffice, has released their latest and greatest version. As is typical with major releases of LibreOffice, there are significant new features making their debut in this version. The component with the biggest upgrade is Calc, which now has support for up to 10,000 sheets per workbook among its new features. Also noteworthy among the new features is support for importing Microsoft Visio files in Impress and Draw. The full feature list is available in a PDF hosted on Dropbox; LibreOffice itself can be downloaded here."

Re:DropBox?

[royallthefourth]

http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-5-new-features-and-fixes/ [libreoffice.org]

Re:10000 sheets per workbook?

[Ginger Unicorn]

i find when i get up to about 100 sheets of no more than a screen full of data each, it takes so long to save the workbook, i just start a fresh one to break it into manageable chunks. 10000 would probably take longer than the heat death of the universe to save.

Re:While, in the same time...

[Anonymous Coward]

Libreoffice basically shed its skin and left openoffice behind in the dust.
The new features already put libreoffice ahead of openoffice, but I think the changes that were most significant were under the hood.
It has been going under a massive cleanup effort making it easier for new devs to contribute and for existing bugs to get squashed.

Re:Still no auto-update.

[Kenja]

And actually, looks like they DID add version checking at long last. They just didn't tell anyone about it. Nifty.

Re:docx support?

[dotancohen]

The .docx support is good enough that I am writing a book in collaboration with MS Office users, including change tracking and comments, and they don't know that I'm using LibreOffice 3.4. If you find any bugs in .docx compatibility, you can contact me here and we will file bugs:
http://dotancohen.com/eng/message.php [dotancohen.com]

Thanks.

New features

[sakdoctor]

Visio .vsd import
Native PostgreSQL driver
Java 7 support
AES encryption .msi Windows Installer - I understand that .msi is a big deal for corporate installs somehow.

Anyway is it just me or is Libreoffice really really awesome. There seems like a tremendous amount of energy behind the project, and it's all headed in the right direction.

Re:New features

[Enderandrew]

Many automation tools that push software out to hundreds/thousands of desktops at once only work with .msi files because you can do automated/silent installs. So yes, having a .msi installer is important in the enterprise world.

A. delete the contents of the cell - like it does

[Anonymous Coward]

You've apparently not used LibreOffice, which actually gets this right - though certainly OpenOffice.org did not, backspace on the other hand pops up the dialog you hate ;-) c'est la vie.

Re:10000 sheets per workbook?

[TheRaven64]

It's a question of speed and simplicity. How do you index worksheets? If people usually create small numbers of them (say, 1-10), then an array of 100 pointers to worksheets is fine. The tab just needs to store an index, and you can find the one before and after trivially by just walking the array. If you keep this approach, you can have a thousand, or possibly ten thousand, without a particularly noticeable memory increase in memory usage (especially for something as big as an office suite), but if you really want flexibility then you need to do something like a tree or a skip list that can be dynamically resized. For small numbers, this just complicates the code and adds overhead for no benefit.

Re:New features

[dotancohen]

Open bugs with that feedback.

Done! Please subscribe to the bugs and leave comments so it is not just me saying "this would be nice".

Remember last background colour
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46069 [freedesktop.org]

Copy cell above
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46070 [freedesktop.org]