ElixirOffice 0.7.2 — desktop build 50

Release cut: 2026-11-11. Update metadata is signed and was publicly verified before publication.

What's new

Layout

• Picture bullets of Word documents are kept when the document is saved and
  are drawn with Word's size rule, instead of plain bullets (#66).
• Fonts embedded in a Word document are used for that document when no
  installed or bundled face exists. They are not kept when the document is
  saved yet (#66).
• A paragraph whose mark has a font size of 0 gets Word's minimum line height,
  so anchored blocks no longer drift up on the page (#73).

Fixed

• Pictures stored as SVG, and WMF or EMF drawings, are no longer blank in the
  desktop editor (#61).
• A font named by its full face name, with an alternate name in the document,
  is now found. The SemiBold, ExtraBold and Light weights of installed font
  families are used as well (#65). Names such as "Open Sans Bold" are only
  resolved to the bold face when the app is allowed to use the fonts of the
  computer.

Security

• Electron 44.11.1, with backported Chromium, V8, PDFium, Skia, ANGLE and
  FFmpeg fixes.
• Server dependencies: node-forge 1.4.3 and fast-xml-parser 5.12.0.
• New code reads data from documents: embedded fonts and picture bullets are
  processed in the sandboxed converter. No new finding otherwise in the
  2026-11-11 check. Details are in SECURITY.md.

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 1,439
tests with 1,439 passed and none failed or skipped.

On Apple Silicon macOS, the Darwin unit tests reported 1,439 tests: 1,370 passed,
none failed and 69 were skipped. The DMG audit passed. The packaged Mac app passed the six-format smoke test: for each of docx, xlsx, pptx, odt, ods and odp it opened a file, edited and saved it, reopened it and exported a PDF with the bundled Wasm PDF engine; the native Mac PDF sheet was not verified.

The 74 Word-for-the-web reference documents of the layout measurement
were re-measured with the packaged app on Linux: 73 were compared, the mean
score is unchanged (96.4, against 96.4 for 0.7.1) and no page count changed.
Specific documents of the issues above were also compared with PDFs made by
Microsoft Word desktop: the CV of #73 agrees within 0.1 mm, and the pictures
of #61, the picture bullets and the font weights of #65 were checked.

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. The Linux
packaged checks were done; the native macOS and Windows checks of the font and
picture changes were not.

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

• Fonts embedded in a document are used for that document but are not kept when
  it is saved.
• 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: 5b42486.
Source archive: elixiroffice-desktop-source.tar.gz.
Source archive SHA-256: 50c4cb6394d7dcc33f8dc909d2256aca165d94f0651bae142a0c65e58404485a.