ElixirOffice 0.7.3 — desktop build 54

Release cut: 2026-11-12. Update metadata is signed and was publicly verified before publication.

What's new

Layout

• Spacing between East Asian and Latin text (autoSpaceDE and autoSpaceDN)
  follows Word desktop.
• Header rows of floating tables repeat on the following pages.
• The footnote separator is placed where Word puts it.
• The results of SET fields are no longer shown.

Word files

• Office 2016 extended charts (box and whisker, sunburst and others) are
  displayed and kept when the document is saved, including files written by
  Apache POI. A chart type the editor cannot draw shows its fallback picture
  (#76).
• A drawing that follows an extended chart is no longer lost after saving and
  reopening the file (#76).
• Fonts embedded in a Word document are kept when the document is saved.
• Positional tabs (w:ptab), compatibility settings and the auto spacing
  properties are kept.
• No empty document protection element is written any more.
• The unused built-in style gallery is no longer written into styles.xml: a
  file with 14 styles stays at 14 styles instead of growing to about 1850.
• VML text boxes keep their stroke wrap area, and WordArt watermarks keep
  Word's size.

Editors

• A tooltip explains the currency format.
• "More templates" is shown only when templates are available.
• PDF download in Firefox inside Nextcloud goes through the server.
• Windows: no stray boxes around file names in the save and close questions
  and in menus (#75).

Security

• Electron 44.11.2, which stops trusting revoked eMudhra RSA intermediate
  certificates.
• New code reads data from documents: positional tabs, compatibility flags,
  the auto spacing paragraph properties and VML stroke widths. It runs in the
  sandboxed converter and editor with fixed-size values only. No new finding
  affecting the product in the 2026-11-12 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. The packaged resource
audits of the Linux, Windows and Mac packages passed.

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-document layout measurement against Word was not re-run for this build,
so no layout score is stated for 0.7.3.

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: 527e8ba.
Source archive: elixiroffice-desktop-source.tar.gz.
Source archive SHA-256: 63699f3e6f35d8ad7cc3980df4aea148e8fb43f728810aaf8254331088eba6c3.