LibreOffice 26.2.1

What's new in this version:

Writer:
- Anchored objects are no longer selected after pasting. The old behaviour can be restored by setting the expert option Office::Writer::Cursor::Option::SelectPastedAnchoredObject to true.
- Floating tables and the keep-with-next/don't split paragraph attributes now work better together in Writer
- Change tracking: old direct format of format redlines are now preserved for ODT and are improved for DOCX
- Change tracking: it is now possible to decide which change to accept for interdependent changes
- Floating tables can now be split into floating tables, which improves DOCX export.
- When changing one numbered list by joining it to a previous one
- Spell checking dialog: various papercut fixes. Correct-All list no longer cleared unnecessarily
- Record Track Changes: Partly-deleted paragraphs added to the hidden list. In this way, track changes for partly-deleted paragraphs will not be displayed in the numbering list.
- Writer now takes line spacing into account for field shadings. In this way, bottom of some letters
- Do not show line numbering in footnote during DOCX import.
- Pasting a single image from the clipboard now automatically inserts a caption, following the Writer AutoCaption Images configuration setting.
- Writer now supports Start and End paragraph alignment. These options align paragraphs relative to the paragraph text direction, and can simplify reusing styles across languages and writing systems.
- Writer can now automatically set the direction of RTL text while typing. This behavior can be added to a paragraph style by checking the "Automatically set direction" option in the alignment tab of the paragraph dialog.
- Writer now displays a more visible grid, and the Snap to Grid functionality now accurately aligns objects with the grid.

Calc:
- Calc now supports xmlMaps.xml
- Improvements to the Sort dialog options
- When natural sort is enabled in the Sort dialog options, you have an additional choice to treat decimal separators as regular characters. That allows to sort IP addresses, for example, even if your locale has a dot as decimal separator. The fact that natural sort is enabled is now written to the file and thus retained when reopening the file. tdf#161949
- The locale setting in the options of the Sort dialog is now written to the file and thus retained. Setting the locale effects not only the choice of a special sort algorithm but now it effects other locale dependent sorting properties too, e.g. which character is used as decimal separator for natural sort. tdf#168175.
- Support for Biff12
- Excel 2010+ was made the default format when saving as XLSX. It was renamed from 'Office Open XML Spreadsheet' to 'Excel 2010–365 Spreadsheet'.
- Modifying a formula to Matrix mode can now simply be done by F2, ⇧ Shift+Ctrl+↵ Enter. No need to change formula itself.
- The commands to set the font and the background color
- Expert option Office::Calc::Content::Display::NoteTransparency allows users to switch off transparency for comments
- Column titles don't overlap anymore when column widths are small

Performance:
- Scrolling speed was improved when a spreadsheet has many hiding columns
- Spreadsheets with lots of shapes are now faster to work with
- Removal of duplicate entries is now faster
- Reject tracked changes is faster
- Exporting SVGs with lots of bitmaps was optimized

Impress:
- Introduced Microsoft Media Foundation APIs on Windows to support video and audio playback of common codecs. Managing video playback with MFPlay. About the supported video and audio file formats.

Base:
- Base is now truly multi-user

Chart:
- Hovering with the mouse over Chart data range colour palette entries in the Sidebar now shows a live preview in the active chart.
- Some OOXML chart style content now round-trips through LibreOffice

Performance:
- Performance issues with 3D charts were fixed

Core / General:
- Added connector support for Writer and Calc. The object path in the standard toolbar: Insert ▸ Shape ▸ Connectors. The object path in the tabbed user interface: Insert ▸ Connectors
- Fonts for which the license disallows editing, which are embedded in documents, are now supported. Previously, they were silently ignored, and the documents were displayed using substitute fonts. Now the user is asked if they want to open the document in edit mode
- Google Drive authentication was improved to use normal browser method
- PDF export: handle document external links.

Filters:
- Generic XML and JSON mapping to Calc:
- Generic XML and JSON documents with linkable ranges are now automatically mapped to sheets in Calc. A linkable range is a section of a document containing tabular records. When a document contains multiple linkable ranges, each range gets mapped to a single sheet.

DOCX:
- Improved line height handling of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean DOC/DOCX documents.

Markdown:
- Added support for exporting to Markdown format
- Added support for importing from Markdown format, either via files or via the clipboard
- Added support for using ODT/DOCX templates while importing a Markdown document

EPUB:
- EPUB export was made much faster, and a progress bar is shown during export

Graphics:
- The Skia graphics engine is now mandatory on both Windows and macOS

Performance:
- Rendering of shape fills was made more performant
- Rendering of SVGs with pattern fills is now faster on Linux

User Interface:
- All dialogs use vertical tabs with icons now
- Option to use horizontal tabs instead vertical
- The Layouts panel in the Impress Sidebar now uses a native IconView widget instead of the ValueSet widget
- The Theme dialog now uses a native IconView widget instead of the ValueSet widget
- The Presets and Shadow Style Positions from the border page dialog now use a native IconView widget instead of the ValueSet widget
- The Go to Page/Slide/Sheet dialogs are now async
- Allow inserting hyperlink via context menu
- Dialog screenshots can now be copied to the clipboard for immediate pasting in documents
- On Linux, the native GTK and Qt color picker dialogs are now used by default instead of the custom LibreOffice one. This can be configured in Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ General
- The page size dropdown in the NotebookBar is now visually more consistent with the rest of the User Interface and it displays the full names of the available page sizes.
- New symbols for unordered lists
- Image library for unordered lists

Accessibility:
- Accessibility of the border previews in the Border tab of various dialogs
- When the Tools ▸ Spelling dialog shows up, it is now properly announced by the Orca screen reader on Linux.
- Removing the accessible selection no longer unexpectedly sets the caret to the beginning of the text.
- The Help ▸ Check for Updates... dialog is now screen reader accessible
- Spelling errors in Writer are now only reported to assistive technology when automatic spell checking is actually enabled.
- Keyboard accessibility for the Tools ▸ Extensions... dialog has been improved
- It is now possible to switch between vertical tabs using keyboard shortcuts

Scripting:
- The version of the internal Python is 3.12
- Ship sqlite3 with internal python
- Ship dbm with internal python
- Ship venv with internal python
- Ship lzma with internal python