ElixirOffice 0.6.5 — desktop build 38
Release cut: 2026-11-06. Update metadata is signed and was publicly verified before publication.
What's new
- Markdown: .md and .markdown files open as formatted documents (headings, lists,
tables, code, links). Save writes Markdown back after a one-time warning that
page layout, colours and picture positions cannot be fully kept; Save As also
offers Markdown next to TXT and RTF. - Choosing "Open with ElixirOffice" on several files in a file manager now opens
all of them, including files that arrive while the app is starting; a file that
did not open before can be opened again. - The Draw tab sits after Insert in the Word, Excel and PowerPoint editors, as in
Office (#58). - Arabic text in spreadsheet cells that use a Chinese font (for example SimSun)
no longer turns into boxes once installed fonts are loaded (#54). - Small colour accents per module on the Home screen and document tabs:
Document blue, Spreadsheet green, Presentation orange, PDF red.
AI stays optional and off by default. Sending document context requires your
configured service, consent and explicit request. Documents are not sent to the
publisher.
Qualification
The portable test suite and the Windows packaging test suite each ran 1,376
tests with 1,376 passed and none failed or skipped.
On Apple Silicon macOS, the Darwin unit tests reported 1,376 tests: 1,307 passed,
none failed and 69 were skipped. The DMG audit passed. A packaged smoke test
passed for six formats: DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT, ODS and ODP, covering open, edit,
save, reopen and WebAssembly PDF. In the packaged macOS app, a Markdown file
opened with its heading, list and table, and the Word ribbon showed Draw after
Insert.
Not run for this build: the unattended Mac check and the native Mac
Mailings and Avenir Next interface checks. Physical printing, Gatekeeper, Intel Macs and this
build on a physical Windows PC were not verified.
No all-green suite, native platform acceptance, speed improvement or
Office-layout equivalence is claimed.
Installation and updates
Use the package for your operating system and follow the
desktop installation instructions.
Exact download links and checksums accompany the qualified release.
Installers remain publisher-unsigned. macOS packages are arm64-only, ad-hoc
signed and not notarized; Gatekeeper may require the documented manual
approval. Update signatures authenticate update metadata and bytes; they do
not provide an OS publisher certificate. Silent updates are not available.
Known limitations
- Markdown round trips are not lossless: the text may be written back with a
different list or line-break style, and formatting Markdown cannot express is
dropped after the warning. - Chinese, Japanese and Korean text in PDF export uses the native path only
for the safe case; rare characters such as CJK Extension B can still be
missing from the PDF. - Physical printing, downloaded-installer handling, Gatekeeper and all-users
installation require separate native checks. - On Linux hosts that restrict unprivileged user namespaces, the AppImage can
run without the Chromium sandbox. Prefer the DEB on affected systems. - Long-session memory growth and Windows CPU spikes on lower-end computers
remain unresolved. - Font substitution cannot reproduce every missing typeface or glyph.
- Existing conversion, PDF, ODF, embedded-object and AI tool limits remain.
AI can make mistakes.
Reporting problems
Open an issue with the app
version, operating system, steps and expected/actual behavior. For security
problems use private reporting as described in SECURITY.md, not a public issue.
Remove personal information, private content and API keys before sharing
attachments.
Corresponding source contains public snapshots of every repository used by the build: the product, DocumentServer, core, sdkjs, web-apps and the other DocumentServer components.
Public product revision: 64601b5.
Source archive: elixiroffice-desktop-source.tar.gz.
Source archive SHA-256: fb1355ec5eaecf2882ff5b0469829a1430792ce666c89b8613dc9da75effd1b1.