Changes Begin Building Up For LibreOffice 6.1

LibreOffice 6.0 was released at the end of January while already is a fair amount of new features over the past two months that have started up building for the next release of this open-source office suite, LibreOffice 6.1.

LibreOffice 6.1 is expected to be released by mid-August while for that to happen an alpha release is slated for the end of April, a beta at the end of May, and the release candidates beginning in early July.

The release notes are already being a work-in-progress for this cross-platform open-source office software. From those release notes we have a glimpse of some of what's coming for this next major release, among the items catching our attention at this time include:

- LibreOffice Calc now better deals with image handling, including sorting of image cells and when resizing images in Calc the aspect ratios are honored.

- Calc now supports customizing the highlight colors.

- Big improvements to the importing filter for Microsoft Excel 2003 XML.

- Dialog improvements for LibreOffice Online as well as other functionality improvements for this web-browser based LibreOffice.

- GTK3 native message dialogs are now in place.

- Improved "KDE 5" integration.

Expect a lot more to still come for LibreOffice 6.1 with the feature freeze and branching not coming until the end of May.

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