14 DAY TRIAL // The Gnumeric open source spreadsheet editor used in numerous distributions of GNU/Linux, including Xubuntu and Lubuntu, received a new maintenance release today, April 17, as part of the GNOME 3.16.1 desktop environment.
According to the internal changelog, Gnumeric 1.12.22 is here to improve ODF (Open Document Format) import/export of additional axes, to fix ODF export of styles for additional axes, as well as to simplify the export of SECH and SEC to ODF.
This release also fixes ODF import and export of unlinked radio buttons and checkboxes, addresses a memory leak in the ODF import and export functionality, improves the pattern fill round trip through ODF, fixes export of Ring plots to ODF, as well as import and export of Pie charts from or to ODF.
Moreover, Gnumeric 1.12.22 repairs signal handling while running Python, implements absolute anchoring for sheet objects, makes images and graphs to not be resizeable with cells, and adds more determinism to the ODF export component, which now works better with corrupted files.
The XLSX import and export functionality was greatly improved
In addition to the many ODF import/export enhancements mentioned above, Gnumeric 1.12.22 introduces a wide range of improvements to the XLSX import and export functionality, such as support for log axis, and support for exporting multiple plots in chart.
Multiple axes are now supported when importing XLSX files, the title export problem in XLSX was fixed, as well as an issue with the style of series. XLSX import/export of sheet tab text color was also repaired.
The test suite was improved, DECIMAL support was implemented, RANDLOG was fixed, RANDGEOM now uses the same distribution as R.DGEOM, a REPLACEB issues was repaired, some sheet filter problems were addressed, and memory leaks plugged.
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