A new version of free, open-source productivity suite ONLYOFFICE is out, bringing more than a thousand bug fixes and an expanded set of AI features.
ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors v10.0 is billed as a “fully rebuilt app”, and its developers warn those who will upgrade from earlier versions that not all of their settings and preferences will transfer over.
AI features in ONLYOFFICE 10.0 now come as a separate AI Tools add-on that has to be manually installed. Its makers say they removed AI features from the the open-source build based on user feedback.
When AI Tools are installed and configured (requires a cloud API or a local LLM model to work) they are can do a lot more and in more the suite’s document editors, including the PDF Editor for the first time.
The team say as “AI understands the context of each file, its suggestions stay relevant and useful”.
In the PDF Editor, it can generate summaries of an open document or answer questions on it contents. In other apps, like the Document Editor, AI can perform actions, e.g., you could tell it to improve text formatting, create a table of contents, etc.
The AI Chat interface has preset prompts that fit common use cases, but you can create Quick Actions to perform one-time tasks or AI Assistants to act as a collaborative editor that works alongside you, on a document, in real-time as you write, edit and update its contents.
AI Tools can also now access the web and interface with Multi-Context Protocol (MCP) severs to, depending on the use case, pull in, glean or query data elsewhere.
Non-AI changes in v10.0
Local document templates are no longer included in ONLYOFFICE, only cloud-based options remain. Window border thickness was reduced in Linux builds and, at last, a window shadow added.
Each editor sees its own set of improvements too.
In Document Editor, the Paste Special menu now has options to continue a list or restart numbering, useful when pasting numbered items into a document with an existing list.
During co-editing, you can now jump to another person’s cursor and follow it as they work. Paragraph text with exact line spacing is now clipped by line, and right-to-left documents now handle equations and other inline objects as expected.
Spreadsheet Editor will highlight ranges a formula applies to in the formula bar, gains a toggle for AutoComplete on cell values and can now save to the XLS format (nifty for those times a file is being sent to someone whose software predates XLSX).
Calculations for array formulas referencing entire columns or rows have also been made faster and use less memory to crunch the numbers.
In the Presentation Editor there are various new print modes (mirroring the new view modes, e.g., outline) as well as options to set weather hidden slides, slide backgrounds and frames, comments an slide numbers appear on the page.
The Redact tool in the PDF Editor is now ale to strip document metadata and remove annotations. Signatures can be added via the Comment tab, while the Comments panel now provides a list of every annotation and type. A new annotation settings panel also debuts.
Get ONLYOFFICE 10.0
ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is free, open-source software for Windows, macOS or Linux. Download the latest release from the official website. Installers for each version can be found on on the GitHub releases page, which has a .Deb for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, et al.
On Linux, standalone versions don’t get automatic updates to new versions, but if automatic updates are what you’d prefer, you can install the official ONLYOFFICE Snap instead.