LibreOffice 4.0 released

LibreOffice 4.0 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

Integration with several content and document management systems – including Alfresco, IBM FileNet P8, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010, Nuxeo, OpenText, SAP NetWeaver Cloud Service and others – through the CMIS standard.
Better interoperability with DOCX and RTF documents.
Possibility to import Microsoft Publisher documents, and further improvement of Visio import filters with the addition of 2013 version.
Additional UI incremental improvements, including Unity integration and support of Firefox Themes (Personas).
Introduction of the widget layout technique for dialog windows, which makes it easier to translate, resize and hide UI elements, reduces code complexity, and lays a foundation for a much improved user interface.


Different header and footer on the first page of a Writer document, without the need of a separate page style.
Several performance improvements to Calc, plus new features such as export of charts as images (JPG and PNG) and new spreadsheet functions as defined in ODF OpenFormula.
First release of Impress Remote Control App for Android, supported only on some Linux distributions.
improvements when loading and saving many types of documents, with particular improvements for large ODS and XLSX spreadsheets and RTF files.

Complete list

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