Discover ONLYOFFICE 8.2.0: Enhanced UI, RTL Compatibility, Touchscreen Features & Faster File Access

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is an open-source productivity suite released under AGPL v.3, featuring integrated editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. This powerful tool enables you to create, view, and modify files stored locally on your computer without needing a constant internet connection. It allows you to generate, edit, save, and export a variety of document types, fully supporting Office Open XML formats such as. docx,. xlsx, and. pptx.

• Effortlessly create, view, and edit text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, regardless of their size or complexity. This suite supports a wide array of popular formats, including DOCX, ODT, XLSX, ODS, CSV, PPTX, ODP, among others. Enjoy the convenience of managing multiple files in a single window with a tabbed user interface, ensuring maximum compatibility with Microsoft Office formats.

Seamless teamwork in your preferred cloud environment

• Integrate ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors with your cloud service of choice, such as ONLYOFFICE, Nextcloud, or ownCloud, to facilitate collaboration with your team. Experience real-time co-editing, document reviews, commenting, and live chat functionalities.

Enhance your editing experience

• Maximize your editing potential with an array of third-party plugins. You can embed YouTube videos, add special characters or ClipArt, utilize automatic translation features, and highlight code snippets. Additionally, create custom plugins using the API documentation along with practical examples found on GitHub.

Changelog for ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors 8.2:

New Features / Across All Editors

• Improved script loading optimization for faster editor startup.
• Developed proprietary rendering for specific SmartArt graphics rather than relying on static images.
• Updated spelling and hyphenation dictionaries.
• Introduced support for new chart types including Histogram, Waterfall, and Funnel.
• Enhanced label display for Date, Value, and Category axes in charts.
• Improved touch screen usability in full editor mode.
• New gray theme added to settings options.
• Reorganized File menu items with additional icons for clarity.
• Separated theme and toolbar settings under a new Appearance category in Advanced Settings.
• New tab style setting allows users to choose between Fill or Line views in tab settings.
• Tabs can use toolbar colors as a background.
• Introduce custom fields within file properties.
• Edit and view custom fields without needing to click ‘Apply’.
• File information layout in Info menu has been optimized.
• Enhanced language list with names of languages and regions replicated in English for clarity.
• Incorporated a search functionality for languages by name and in both target and English versions.
• Removed the installation path selection page for security; can be forced with the /enabledirpage flag (EXE package).
• Added support for local templates, currently limited to documents from pre-installed templates.
• Announced app translation support for British English (en-GB).
• Refreshed format icons in the ‘Create New’ and ‘Recent Files’ lists.
• Included English hints in the interface language list on the settings page.

Document Editor Enhancements

• Support for legacy CheckBox variants.
• Ability to insert contents from external documents.
• New numbered list configurations for users utilizing the Arabic interface.
• Added highlighting for deleted text in selected document versions.
• Capability to add and modify complex fields with corresponding instructions.

• Smoother scrolling experience has been implemented.
• Support for iterative calculations has improved.
• New feature allows switching the cell placement direction.
• Addition of a formatting button for numbers with separators to the toolbar.
• View full-scale pages in the Print preview mode.
• The Pivot Table tab is now shown only when the pivot table is active; otherwise, it remains hidden.
• Settings panel for Pivot Tables now expands upon the addition of a new table.
• A feature allowing the display of trendlines (equation on charts) has been added in Advanced Settings.
• Local CSV files can now be previewed before opening.

Presentation Editor Updates

• Accelerated file opening by rendering slides before image loading.
• Introduced a more intuitive selection method for animations from an extensive list.
• New Random transition effect added.

Forms Configuration

• Inclusion of a Signature field with the option to upload a pre-prepared image.

PDF Editor Features

• Now facilitates saving PDF files to storage.
• Improved handling of trimmed/combined shapes during file opening.
• Support for gradients has been added.
• Text recognition capabilities enhanced.

Bug Fixes / Security Improvements

• Resolved XSS vulnerabilities in the Animation Pane tooltip.
• Fixed issues in the FormattedDiskPagePAPX, SectionPropertiesMapping, among others, that could lead to Heap Buffer Overflow during DOC format conversion.
• Addressed vulnerabilities in the ECMADecryptor and DirTree functions that caused Buffer over-read during DOC conversions.
• Corrected security flaws in the Update Service that allowed Directory Traversal Privilege Escalation.
• Fixed multiple vulnerabilities in the findNextBorderPixel and pixFewColorsOctcubeQuantMixed functions that led to heap buffer overflow (CVE-2020-36278, CVE-2020-36281).

Download links:

OnlyOffice 64-bit | 257.0 MB (Open Source)
OnlyOffice 32-bit | 238.0 MB
Windows XP 64-bit | 453.0 MB
Windows XP 32-bit | 443.0 MB

For more information, visit the OnlyOffice Website. Check out screenshots and the Release Announcement.

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